Transcription factors SOX4 and SOX9 cooperatively control development of bile ducts

Developmental Biology

Volumn 404, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 136-148

  Poncy, Alexis ^a   Antoniou, Aline ^a,b   Cordi, Sabine ^a   Pierreux, Christophe E ^a   Jacquemin, Patrick ^a   Lemaigre, Frédéric P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biliary tract; Liver development; SOX transcription factors; Transcriptional network

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; LAMININ ALPHA5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HIPPO PROTEIN, MOUSE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; SOX4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SOX9 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; YAP PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CHOLANGIOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HIPPO YAP SIGNALING PATHWAY; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTCH SIGNALING PATHWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; ORGANOGENESIS; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LAMININ; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGANOGENESIS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SOXC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84937724156     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.05.012     Document Type: Article

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