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University of Chicago
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Manasa Prahlad, Weidong Feng, Ian Q. Weigle, Oyunsuvd Bat-Erdene, Yihan Chen, Filipe Marques, Paschalis Kratsios
This study identifies PBX-dependent and independent Hox gene interactions that establish and maintain motor neuron subtype identity in C. elegans.
Development · Jul 1, 2026Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology
Catarina Catela, Stavroula Assimacopoulos, Yihan Chen, Konstantinos Tsioras, Weidong Feng, Paschalis Kratsios
This study identifies the conserved role of HOX proteins in regulating Iro/Irx gene expression during motor neuron development in mice and C. elegans.
iScience · Mar 12, 2025Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology
Weidong Feng, Honorine Destain, Jayson J. Smith, Paschalis Kratsios
The paper shows that Hox proteins maintain neurotransmitter identity in C. elegans motor neurons through a homeostatic mechanism involving a positive feedforward loop and negative feedback.
Nature Communications · Oct 15, 2022Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology
Catarina Catela, Yifei Weng, Kailong Wen, Weidong Feng, Paschalis Kratsios
The paper investigates the role of Hoxc8 in maintaining terminal differentiation of spinal motor neurons in mice, showing its necessity for expression of differentiation markers and uncovering new regulatory relationships.
eLife · Mar 14, 2022Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology
Weidong Feng, Yinan Li, Pauline Dao, Jihad Aburas, Priota Islam, Benayahu Elbaz, Anna Kolarzyk, André EX Brown, Paschalis Kratsios
The paper identifies a terminal selector that prevents a Hox transcriptional switch to maintain motor neuron identity in C. elegans.
eLife · Jan 3, 2020Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology