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The role of Wnt signaling in embryonic development.
 Dupačová, Naoko ; Kozmík, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Peterka, Miroslav (referee) ; Pavlínková, Gabriela (referee)
Ph.D. thesis: The role of Wnt signaling in embryonic development Naoko Dupačová (Fujimura) ABSTRACT Wnt signaling plays important roles in multiple developmental processes. The binding of Wnt ligands to their receptors and coreceptors activates three main downstream pathways: canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling, which results in the activation of β-catenin/Tcf mediated gene expression and noncanonical Wnt/PCP and Wnt/Ca2+ pathways. In this thesis, we aimed at studying the role of Wnt/β-catenin signaling during embryonic development, especially in the telencephalon and the eye. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is essential for the maintenance of proliferation of neuronal progenitor cells and dorso-ventral specification during the telencephalon development. To provide further insights, we studied transcriptional targets of canonical Wnt signaling. We show that the ectopic activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling results in the up-regulation of Sp5 gene, which encodes a member of the Sp1 transcription factor family. A proximal promoter of Sp5 gene contains five Tcf/Lef binding sites that mediate direct regulation of Sp5 expression by canonical Wnt signaling. We further provide evidence that Sp5 works as a transcriptional repressor. Finally, our data strongly suggest that Sp5 has the same DNA binding specificity as Sp1 and...
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