Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

An Erg-driven transcriptional program controls B cell lymphopoiesis

  • Ashley P. Ng,
  • Hannah D. Coughlan,
  • Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh,
  • Kira Behrens,
  • Timothy M. Johanson,
  • Michael Sze Yuan Low,
  • Charles C. Bell,
  • Omer Gilan,
  • Yih-Chih Chan,
  • Andrew J. Kueh,
  • Thomas Boudier,
  • Rebecca Feltham,
  • Anna Gabrielyan,
  • Ladina DiRago,
  • Craig D. Hyland,
  • Helen Ierino,
  • Sandra Mifsud,
  • Elizabeth Viney,
  • Tracy Willson,
  • Mark A. Dawson,
  • Rhys S. Allan,
  • Marco J. Herold,
  • Kelly Rogers,
  • David M. Tarlinton,
  • Gordon K. Smyth,
  • Melissa J. Davis,
  • Stephen L. Nutt,
  • Warren S. Alexander

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16828-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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B cell development is tightly regulated in a stepwise manner to ensure proper generation of repertoire diversity via somatic gene rearrangements. Here, the authors show that a transcription factor, Erg, functions at the earliest stage to critically control two downstream factors, Ebf1 and Pax5, for modulating this gene rearrangement process.