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Pygopus 2: tilting the Wnt-Notch balance in mammary epithelial lineage determination
Abstract:
The mammary gland requires the coordinated efforts of multiple epithelial cell lineages to build an organized bilayered ductal network. How epigenetic regulators direct decisions of cell-fate and lineage determination in cooperation with intrinsic transcriptional factors and extrinsic signaling factors remains a fundamental question in the field of developmental biology. Recent work sheds new light on the role of the histone methylation reader Pygopus 2 in coordinating the balance of self-renewal Wnt signals with luminal-specific Notch signals in mammary epithelial lineage determination.
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