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FRS2α-dependent cell fate transition during endocardial cushion morphogenesis.
Developmental biology - 1 Feb 2020
Chen Dongying, Zhu Xiaolong, Kofler Natalie, Wang Yidong, Zhou Bin, Simons Michael
Abstract excerpt
Atrioventricular valve development requires endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) that induces cushion endocardial cells to give rise to mesenchymal cells crucial to valve formation. In the adult endothelium, deletion of the docking protein FRS2α induces EndMT by activating TGFβ signaling in a miRNA let-7-dependent manner. To study the role of endothelial FRS2α during embryonic development, we generated...
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