Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

An NKX-COUP-TFII morphogenetic code directs mucosal endothelial addressin expression

  • Thanh Theresa Dinh,
  • Menglan Xiang,
  • Anusha Rajaraman,
  • Yongzhi Wang,
  • Nicole Salazar,
  • Yu Zhu,
  • Walter Roper,
  • Siyeon Rhee,
  • Kevin Brulois,
  • Ed O’Hara,
  • Helena Kiefel,
  • Truc M. Dinh,
  • Yuhan Bi,
  • Dalila Gonzalez,
  • Evan P. Bao,
  • Kristy Red-Horse,
  • Peter Balogh,
  • Fanni Gábris,
  • Balázs Gaszner,
  • Gergely Berta,
  • Junliang Pan,
  • Eugene C. Butcher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34991-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Vascular addressins control lymphocyte homing, thus regulating immunity and inflammation, but how addressin expression is patterned remains unknown. Here the authors identify composite DNA elements (NCCEs) that bind NKX2 homeodomain proteins cooperatively with COUP-TFII to define a morphogenetic code that targets transcription of mucosal vascular addressins.