Abstract:
:Proper development of a multicellular organism relies on well-coordinated regulation of cell fate specification, cell proliferation and cell differentiation. The C. elegans postembryonic mesoderm provides a useful system for uncovering factors involved in these processes and for further dissecting their regulatory relationships. The single Spalt-like zinc finger containing protein SEM-4/SALL is known to be involved in specifying the proliferative sex myoblast (SM) fate. We have found that SEM-4/SALL is sufficient to promote the SM fate and that it does so in a cell autonomous manner. We further showed that SEM-4/SALL acts through the SoxC transcription factor SEM-2 to promote the SM fate. SEM-2 is known to promote the SM fate by inhibiting the expression of two BWM-specifying transcription factors. In light of recent findings in mammals showing that Sall4, one of the mammalian homologs of SEM-4, contributes to pluripotency regulation by inhibiting differentiation, our work suggests that the function of SEM-4/SALL proteins in regulating pluripotency versus differentiation appears to be evolutionarily conserved.
journal_name
Dev Bioljournal_title
Developmental biologyauthors
Shen Q,Shi H,Tian C,Ghai V,Liu Jdoi
10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.06.011subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-09-01 00:00:00pages
335-342issue
1eissn
0012-1606issn
1095-564Xpii
S0012-1606(17)30310-Xjournal_volume
429pub_type
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