Repressor activity of Headless/Tcf3 is essential for vertebrate head formation

CH Kim, T Oda, M Itoh, DI Jiang, KB Artinger… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
… is essential in vertebrate head formation and … the activity of Tcf3 as a repressor is critical
for head formation, the HMG box DNA-binding domain of Tcf3 was combined with the repressor

[HTML][HTML] T-cell factors as transcriptional inhibitors: activities and regulations in vertebrate head development

J Bou-Rouphael, BC Durand - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… describes the activities and regulatory modes of TCF/LEF as transcriptional repressors, with
… of TCF7L1 repressor activities in both SO formation, and forebrain progenitor proliferation. …

Two tcf3 genes cooperate to pattern the zebrafish brain

RI Dorsky, M Itoh, RT Moon, A Chitnis - 2003 - journals.biologists.com
… of the caudalizing activity gradient in the neurectoderm. … are both orthologs of Tcf3 in other
vertebrates. By RT-PCR analysis, … Hdl and Tcf3b both act as repressors in vivo, and that target …

Tcf3: a transcriptional regulator of axis induction in the early embryo

BJ Merrill, HA Pasolli, L Polak, M Rendl… - 2004 - journals.biologists.com
… contexts during vertebrate embryogenesis, organ and tissue homeostasis, and cancer formation.
… By ablating Tcf3 function, we have uncovered an important requirement for a repressor

HESX1-and TCF3-mediated repression of Wnt/β-catenin targets is required for normal development of the anterior forebrain

CL Andoniadou, M Signore, RM Young… - …, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
… an essential role during regionalisation of the vertebrate … mesendoderm markers required
for normal brain formation, could … In the zebrafish embryo, loss of Tcf3a repressor activity was …

Modulation of Tcf3 repressor complex composition regulates cdx4 expression in zebrafish

H Ro, IB Dawid - The EMBO Journal, 2011 - embopress.org
… family is critical for specification of caudal body formation and erythropoiesis… repressor
complex. These observations introduce a novel mechanism that modulates Tcf3 repressor activity

[PDF][PDF] Regulation of TCF3 by Wnt-dependent phosphorylation during vertebrate axis specification

H Hikasa, J Ezan, K Itoh, X Li, MW Klymkowsky… - Developmental cell, 2010 - cell.com
headless/tcf3 mutant has an anterior head defect, which can be rescued by a constitutive
repressor … a Wnt ligand stimulates HIPK2 enzymatic activity during vertebrate gastrulation. Our …

[HTML][HTML] The function of tcf3 in medaka embryos: efficient knockdown with pePNAs

G Doenz, S Dorn, N Aghaallaei, B Bajoghli, E Riegel… - BMC …, 2018 - Springer
… acts in anterior development and is critical for eye formation. … In non-vertebrates transcriptional
activation and repression is … /Tle co-repressor proteins make a crucial contribution to eye …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-specific derepression of TCF/LEF controls the activity of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway

FI Lu, YH Sun, CY Wei, C Thisse, B Thisse - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
… as co-repressors by interacting with histone deacetylases whose activity leads to the … to
TCF, thereby preventing formation of transcription repressor complexes. These findings reveal a …

Developmentally regulated Tcf7l2 splice variants mediate transcriptional repressor functions during eye formation

RM Young, KB Ewan, VP Ferrer, ML Allende… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
… To assess if tcf7l2 repressor activity can functionally compensate for loss of tcf7l1a, we …
Repressor activity of headless/Tcf3 is essential for vertebrate head formation. Nature 407:…