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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 410-422Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.06.019
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [BFU2011-23083, SAF2010-17555]
- Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid (CELLDD-CM)
- Human Frontiers Sciences Program
- NIH [RO1-HD052115, RO1-DK084391]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [FRN13426]
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
- Pro-CNIC Foundation
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The first lineage choice in mammalian embryogenesis is that between the trophectoderm, which gives rise to the trophoblast of the placenta, and the inner cell mass, from which is derived the embryo proper and the yolk sac. The establishment of these lineages is preceded by the inside-versus-outside positioning of cells in the early embryo and stochastic expression of key transcription factors, which is then resolved into lineage-restricted expression. The regulatory inputs that drive this restriction and how they relate to cell position are largely unknown. Here, we show an unsuspected role of Notch signaling in regulating trophectoderm-specific expression of Cdx2 in cooperation with TEAD4. Notch activity is restricted to outer cells and is able to influence positional allocation of blastomeres, mediating preferential localization to the trophectoderm. Our results show that multiple signaling inputs at preimplantation stages specify the first embryonic lineages.
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