Transcription profiling ofmouse wild type and GATA6 null lung

ABSTRACT: Epithelial organs including the lung are known to possess regenerative abilities through activation of endogenous stem cell populations but the molecular pathways regulating stem cell expansion and regeneration are not well understood. Here we show that Gata6 regulates the temporal appearance and number of bronchioalveolar stem cells (BASCs) in the lung leading to the precocious appearance of BASCs and concurrent loss in epithelial differentiation in Gata6 null lung epithelium. This expansion of BASCs is the result of a dramatic increase in canonical Wnt signaling in lung epithelium upon loss of Gata6. Expression of the non-canonical Wnt receptor Fzd2 is down-regulated in Gata6 mutants and increased Fzd2 or decreased β-catenin expression rescues, in part, the lung epithelial defects in

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Edward Morrisey 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11165 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress