Title: Foxp transcription factors suppress a non-pulmonary gene expression program to permit proper lung development.
Authors: Li, Shanru; Morley, Michael; Lu, MinMin; Zhou, Su; Stewart, Kathleen; French, Catherine A; Tucker, Haley O; Fisher, Simon E; Morrisey, Edward E
Published In Dev Biol, (2016 08 15)
Abstract: The inhibitory mechanisms that prevent gene expression programs from one tissue to be expressed in another are poorly understood. Foxp1/2/4 are forkhead transcription factors that repress gene expression and are individually important for endoderm development. We show that combined loss of all three Foxp1/2/4 family members in the developing anterior foregut endoderm leads to a loss of lung endoderm lineage commitment and subsequent development. Foxp1/2/4 deficient lungs express high levels of transcriptional regulators not normally expressed in the developing lung, including Pax2, Pax8, Pax9 and the Hoxa9-13 cluster. Ectopic expression of these transcriptional regulators is accompanied by decreased expression of lung restricted transcription factors including Nkx2-1, Sox2, and Sox9. Foxp1 binds to conserved forkhead DNA binding sites within the Hoxa9-13 cluster, indicating a direct repression mechanism. Thus, Foxp1/2/4 are essential for promoting lung endoderm development by repressing expression of non-pulmonary transcription factors.
PubMed ID:
27341756
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