| 2003 |
cdx4 (kugelig locus in zebrafish) regulates hox gene expression and is required for specification of haematopoietic cell fate; haematopoietic defects in cdx4 mutants are rescued by overexpression of hoxb7a or hoxa9a (but not hoxb8a), placing cdx4 upstream of specific hox genes in blood progenitor specification. cdx4 overexpression in mouse embryonic stem cells induces blood formation and alters hox gene expression. |
Zebrafish forward genetics (kugelig mutant), rescue by hox gene overexpression, mESC overexpression assay, genetic epistasis |
Nature |
High |
13679919
|
| 1993 |
Murine Cdx-4 protein and mRNA are expressed in a posterior-to-anterior gradient during gastrulation (7.0–10 d.p.c.), localized to allantois, primitive streak, neurectoderm, presomitic and lateral plate mesoderm, and hindgut endoderm, suggesting a role in anteroposterior axial specification. |
In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry in mouse embryos |
Mechanisms of development |
Medium |
7902125
|
| 2005 |
Cdx4 is a direct transcriptional target of the canonical Wnt pathway; LEF1 and β-catenin bind the Cdx4 promoter at multiple LEF/TCF response elements in embryocarcinoma cells and in the embryonic tailbud, and Cdx4 expression is reduced in Wnt3a-null embryos. |
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), promoter-reporter transfection assays, Wnt3a-null mouse embryos, Wnt inhibitor treatment ex vivo |
Developmental biology |
High |
16309666
|
| 2005 |
cdx4 and cdx2 protein gradients form along the neural and mesodermal tissues by decay of protein activity as cells move away from the regressing tailbud; an intronic enhancer element of cdx4 is required for correct spatial transgene expression. |
lacZ reporter transgenic mice, in situ hybridization |
The International journal of developmental biology |
Medium |
16281167
|
| 2006 |
Cdx4 combined with Cdx2 is required for chorio-allantoic fusion and development of the placental labyrinth; in Cdx2/Cdx4 compound mutants, the allantoic vascular network fails to extend into chorionic ectoderm, revealing a redundant role for Cdx4 in placental morphogenesis. |
Targeted mouse knockout, compound mutant analysis |
Development (Cambridge, England) |
High |
16396910
|
| 2006 |
Cdx4 and the transcriptional coregulator menin both bind the same regulatory region of the Hoxa9 locus in hematopoietic cells and co-activate Hoxa9 transcription; ablation of menin abolishes Cdx4 access to chromatin and reduces histone H3K4 trimethylation at the Hoxa9 locus. |
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), reporter co-activation assays, menin knockdown |
PloS one |
High |
17183676
|
| 2008 |
cdx4 functions cell-autonomously within the endoderm to localize foregut organs (pancreas, liver, small intestine) along the anterior-posterior axis; endoderm-specific cdx4 knockdown recapitulates posteriorly shifted pancreas, and endoderm-specific overexpression shifts the pancreas anteriorly. Cdx4 may block pancreatic identity by suppressing retinoic acid signaling in posterior endoderm. |
Morpholino knockdown and tissue-specific overexpression in zebrafish, cdx4 mutant analysis |
Development (Cambridge, England) |
High |
18234725
|
| 2010 |
Cdx2 directly binds Cdx response elements in the Cdx4 promoter and activates its transcription; Cdx4 expression is significantly reduced in Cdx2-null mouse embryos; Cdx2 and canonical Wnt signaling regulate Cdx4 through distinct mechanisms. |
EMSA, ChIP in embryos, promoter-reporter transfection, Cdx2 knockout mouse |
Mechanisms of development |
High |
20933081
|
| 2010 |
Loss of Cdx4 in mice has minimal effect on adult steady-state hematopoiesis (no significant change in HSC frequency or long-term repopulating activity), but Cdx4 deletion significantly delays MLL-AF9-induced acute myeloid leukemia, indicating Cdx4 participates in leukemogenesis downstream of this oncogene. |
Germline and conditional Cdx4 knockout in mice, competitive transplantation, retroviral MLL-AF9 bone marrow transplant model |
Haematologica |
High |
20494928
|
| 2011 |
HoxA10 directly activates CDX4 transcription by binding a cis element in the CDX4 promoter; Cdx4 in turn directly activates HOXA10 transcription by binding a cis element in the HOXA10 promoter; this bidirectional positive feedback loop amplifies Hox-Cdx activity in myeloid progenitors and is relevant to AML pathogenesis. |
Promoter-reporter assays, site-directed mutagenesis of cis elements, gene knockdown, ChIP |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
21471217
|
| 2011 |
Tcf3 represses cdx4 expression by directly binding multiple sites in the cdx4 regulatory region in association with corepressors Groucho/TLE and HDAC1; the transcription factor E4f1 de-represses cdx4 by dissociating corepressors from Tcf3 without displacing Tcf3 from DNA; the E3 ubiquitin ligase Lnx2b (acting as a scaffold) counteracts E4f1. |
Zebrafish embryo genetics, mammalian cell reporter assays, ChIP, protein interaction assays |
The EMBO journal |
High |
21666599
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| 2012 |
β-catenin directly activates both CDX4 and HOXA10 transcription in myeloid progenitor cells through novel cis elements in their promoters; HoxA10-induced CDX4 transcription is augmented by FGF2-dependent β-catenin activation, creating a positive feedback circuit. |
ChIP demonstrating β-catenin occupancy at CDX4 and HOXA10 promoters, promoter-reporter assays, FGF2 manipulation |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
Medium |
23038246
|
| 2013 |
ChIP-seq identified Sall4 as a direct Cdx4 transcriptional target in zebrafish; Sall4 in turn binds the cdx4 locus (auto- and cross-regulation); Cdx4 and Sall4 co-regulate hematopoietic initiation genes (hox, scl, lmo2); combined cdx4/sall4 knockdown impairs erythropoiesis, and overexpression of scl + lmo2 together rescues the erythroid program. |
ChIP-seq, gene-expression profiling, morpholino knockdown, overexpression rescue in zebrafish |
Stem cell reports |
High |
24286030
|
| 2014 |
HoxA9 represses CDX4 transcription in differentiating myeloid cells, antagonizing HoxA10 activation; tyrosine phosphorylation of HoxA10 impairs its activation of CDX4, while tyrosine phosphorylation of HoxA9 facilitates repression; constitutively active Shp2 blocks cytokine-induced phosphorylation of both, sustaining elevated CDX4 expression; Mll-Ell oncogene induces HoxA10-dependent CDX4 increase. |
Promoter-reporter assays, site-specific phosphorylation mutagenesis, Shp2 gain-of-function, ChIP, retroviral expression in myeloid progenitors |
Oncogenesis |
Medium |
25531430
|
| 2015 |
Cdx4 regulates the spatiotemporal activation of hox genes in zebrafish in a paralogous-group-dependent manner: loss of Cdx4 delays transcriptional initiation of group 5–10 hox genes in trunk neural tissue and trunk mesoderm, and prevents extension of group 11–13 hox expression beyond the tail bud. The primary effect is on the timing (initiation phase) of hox transcriptional activation. |
Cdx4 morpholino knockdown in zebrafish, spatial expression profiling of all 49 zebrafish hox genes by ISH |
Developmental dynamics |
Medium |
26335559
|
| 2016 |
Cdx4 suppresses expression of the RA-degrading enzyme Cyp26a1 in the presumptive spinal cord domain, thereby preventing RA degradation and maintaining spinal cord identity; conversely, RA signaling inhibits cdx4 expansion in the hindbrain. This mutual antagonism between Cdx4 and Cyp26a1/RA positions the hindbrain-spinal cord boundary. |
Chemical inhibitors of RA signaling, morpholino knockdown of Cdx4, expression analysis in zebrafish |
Developmental biology |
Medium |
26773000
|
| 2017 |
CDX4 expression is restricted to definitive hematopoietic KDR+CD235a- mesoderm in a WNT- and FGF-dependent manner in human pluripotent stem cell differentiation; exogenous CDX4 during mesoderm specification represses primitive hematopoietic potential and confers fivefold greater definitive hematopoietic potential; CDX4 knockout hPSCs retain primitive hematopoiesis but show fivefold decreased multilineage definitive hematopoietic potential. |
hPSC differentiation, lentiviral CDX4 overexpression, CRISPR knockout, transcriptome analysis, flow cytometry |
Blood |
High |
28408465
|
| 2019 |
CDX4 functions as a dual-function transcription factor in the spinal cord: it represses the early neural differentiation marker Nkx1.2 and promotes the late neural differentiation marker Pax6, while also preventing premature Pax6-dependent neural differentiation by blocking Ngn2 activation; RA signaling restricts this CDX4-over-Pax6 regulation to the rostral pre-neural tube. |
Gain- and loss-of-function experiments in chicken pre-neural tube, gene expression analysis |
Developmental biology |
Medium |
30825428
|
| 2019 |
Aberrant Cdx4 expression in mice induces transplantable acute erythroid leukemia, associated with upregulation of stemness/leukemogenesis genes and downregulation of Gata1/Gata2 erythroid differentiation targets; Cdx4 induces a proteomic profile overlapping with primitive human erythroid progenitors; whole-exome sequencing of leukemic mice identified recurrent co-occurring mutations in erythroid transcription factors and TP53 targets. |
Retroviral Cdx4 overexpression in mice, bone marrow transplantation, gene expression profiling, proteomics, whole-exome sequencing |
Blood advances |
Medium |
31770439
|
| 2021 |
Zebrafish cdx4 is expressed in trunk neural crest (NC) cell progenitors, directly binds NC cell-specific enhancers in the NC gene regulatory network, and regulates foxd3 expression in the posterior body; cdx4 mutants show disrupted segmental trunk NC migration (loss of leader/follower dynamics); cell transplantation showed Cdx4 acts tissue-autonomously within NC cells, not in adjacent paraxial mesoderm. |
cdx4 mutant analysis, ChIP (direct enhancer binding), morpholino knockdown, cell transplantation chimeras, live imaging in zebrafish |
Developmental biology |
High |
34389276
|
| 2022 |
CDX4+ mesoderm in hPSC differentiation is uniquely enriched for CD1d surface expression; CD1d+ mesoderm harbors CD34+HOXA+ hemogenic endothelium with multilineage erythroid-myeloid-lymphoid potential; scRNAseq shows CDX4hi cells are enriched in CD1d+ fraction, providing a surface marker for CDX4+ definitive hemogenic mesoderm. |
scRNAseq, flow cytometry, hPSC differentiation, functional hematopoietic assays |
Stem cell research |
Medium |
35569347
|
| 2005 |
A consensus Oct1 (POU-domain octamer-binding protein) binding site in the proximal Cdx4 promoter is required for its activity; Oct1 co-expression induces Cdx4 reporter expression and mutation of the octamer site abolishes promoter activity; this octamer site is conserved in Cdx4 promoters across human, mouse, chicken, and zebrafish. |
Deletion analysis of Xenopus Cdx4 promoter, transgenic GFP reporter in Xenopus, promoter-reporter co-expression assay, site-directed mutagenesis |
Developmental biology |
Medium |
15950614
|