A WNTer Revisit: New Faces of beta-Catenin and TCFs in Pluripotency

作者:Watanabe Kazuhide; Dai Xing*
来源:Science Signaling, 2011, 4(193): pe41.
DOI:10.1126/scisignal.2002436

摘要

New evidence has revealed interesting aspects of how the Wnt-beta-catenin pathway controls self-renewal and lineage differentiation of pluripotent embryonic stem cells. Although Wnt-beta-catenin signaling is dispensable for the self-renewal of naive mouse embryonic stem cells, it facilitates their expansion and resistance to differentiation through an unconventional dual mechanism involving the transcriptional repressor T cell factor (TCF) 3 and the transcriptional activator TCF1.

  • 出版日期2011-10-4