Etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos
VEGFA signaling controls physiological and pathological angiogenesis and hematopoiesis. Although many context-dependent signaling pathways downstream of VEGFA have been uncovered, vegfa transcriptional regulation in vivo remains unclear. Here, we show that the ETS transcription factor, Etv6, positiv...
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| author | Li, L Rispoli, R Patient, R Ciau-Uitz, A Porcher, C |
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| description | VEGFA signaling controls physiological and pathological angiogenesis and hematopoiesis. Although many context-dependent signaling pathways downstream of VEGFA have been uncovered, vegfa transcriptional regulation in vivo remains unclear. Here, we show that the ETS transcription factor, Etv6, positively regulates vegfa expression during Xenopus blood stem cell development through multiple transcriptional inputs. In agreement with its established repressive functions, Etv6 directly inhibits expression of the repressor foxo3, to prevent Foxo3 from binding to and repressing the vegfa promoter. Etv6 also directly activates expression of the activator klf4; reflecting a genome-wide paucity in ETS-binding motifs in Etv6 genomic targets, Klf4 then recruits Etv6 to the vegfa promoter to activate its expression. These two mechanisms (double negative gate and feed-forward loop) are classic features of gene regulatory networks specifying cell fates. Thus, Etv6's dual function, as a transcriptional repressor and activator, controls a major signaling pathway involved in endothelial and blood development in vivo. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e4b7af2f-ec7a-417e-92c5-434055cb10e82022-03-27T10:18:39ZEtv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e4b7af2f-ec7a-417e-92c5-434055cb10e8EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordNature Research2019Li, LRispoli, RPatient, RCiau-Uitz, APorcher, CVEGFA signaling controls physiological and pathological angiogenesis and hematopoiesis. Although many context-dependent signaling pathways downstream of VEGFA have been uncovered, vegfa transcriptional regulation in vivo remains unclear. Here, we show that the ETS transcription factor, Etv6, positively regulates vegfa expression during Xenopus blood stem cell development through multiple transcriptional inputs. In agreement with its established repressive functions, Etv6 directly inhibits expression of the repressor foxo3, to prevent Foxo3 from binding to and repressing the vegfa promoter. Etv6 also directly activates expression of the activator klf4; reflecting a genome-wide paucity in ETS-binding motifs in Etv6 genomic targets, Klf4 then recruits Etv6 to the vegfa promoter to activate its expression. These two mechanisms (double negative gate and feed-forward loop) are classic features of gene regulatory networks specifying cell fates. Thus, Etv6's dual function, as a transcriptional repressor and activator, controls a major signaling pathway involved in endothelial and blood development in vivo. |
| spellingShingle | Li, L Rispoli, R Patient, R Ciau-Uitz, A Porcher, C Etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos |
| title | Etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos
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| title_full | Etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos
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| title_fullStr | Etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos
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| title_full_unstemmed | Etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos
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| title_short | Etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in Xenopus embryos
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| title_sort | etv6 activates vegfa expression through positive and negative transcriptional regulatory networks in xenopus embryos |
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