Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

The Wnt/TCF7L1 transcriptional repressor axis drives primitive endoderm formation by antagonizing naive and formative pluripotency

  • Paraskevi Athanasouli,
  • Martina Balli,
  • Anchel De Jaime-Soguero,
  • Annekatrien Boel,
  • Sofia Papanikolaou,
  • Bernard K. van der Veer,
  • Adrian Janiszewski,
  • Tijs Vanhessche,
  • Annick Francis,
  • Youssef El Laithy,
  • Antonio Lo Nigro,
  • Francesco Aulicino,
  • Kian Peng Koh,
  • Vincent Pasque,
  • Maria Pia Cosma,
  • Catherine Verfaillie,
  • An Zwijsen,
  • Björn Heindryckx,
  • Christoforos Nikolaou,
  • Frederic Lluis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36914-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Signal transduction and gene expression regulation via downstream transcription factors shape the early mammalian embryo. Here the authors show that Wnt/TCF7L1 transcriptional repressive activity is required for primitive endoderm lineage formation.