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Engert, S. ; Burtscher, I. ; Liao, W.P. ; Dulev, S.* ; Schotta, G.* ; Lickert, H.

Wnt/β-catenin signalling regulates Sox17 expression and is essential for organizer and endoderm formation in the mouse.

Development 140, 3128-3138 (2013)
DOI PMC
Open Access Green möglich sobald Postprint bei der ZB eingereicht worden ist.
Several signalling cascades are implicated in the formation and patterning of the three principal germ layers, but their precise temporal-spatial mode of action in progenitor populations remains undefined. We have used conditional gene deletion of mouse β-catenin in Sox17-positive embryonic and extra-embryonic endoderm as well as vascular endothelial progenitors to address the function of canonical Wnt signalling in cell lineage formation and patterning. Conditional mutants fail to form anterior brain structures and exhibit posterior body axis truncations, whereas initial blood vessel formation appears normal. Tetraploid rescue experiments reveal that lack of β-catenin in the anterior visceral endoderm results in defects in head organizer formation. Sox17 lineage tracing in the definitive endoderm (DE) shows a cell-autonomous requirement for β-catenin in midgut and hindgut formation. Surprisingly, wild-type posterior visceral endoderm (PVE) in midgut- and hindgut-deficient tetraploid chimera rescues the posterior body axis truncation, indicating that the PVE is important for tail organizer formation. Upon loss of β-catenin in the visceral endoderm and DE lineages, but not in the vascular endothelial lineage, Sox17 expression is not maintained, suggesting downstream regulation by canonical Wnt signalling. Strikingly, Tcf4/β-catenin transactivation complexes accumulated on Sox17 cis-regulatory elements specifically upon endoderm induction in an embryonic stem cell differentiation system. Together, these results indicate that the Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway regulates Sox17 expression for visceral endoderm pattering and DE formation and provide the first functional evidence that the PVE is necessary for gastrula organizer gene induction and posterior axis development.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Schlagwörter Endoderm; Gastrula organizer; Sox17; Wnt/β-catenin signalling; Anterior Neural Plate ; Embryonic Stem-cells ; Beta-catenin ; Visceral Endoderm ; Gene-expression ; Cre Recombinase ; Spemanns Organizer ; Primitive Streak ; Axis Formation ; Mice
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0950-1991
e-ISSN 1477-9129
Zeitschrift Development / Company of Biologists
Quellenangaben Band: 140, Heft: 15, Seiten: 3128-3138 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Company of Biologists
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research (IDR)
Institute of Stem Cell Research (ISF)