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In some cases expression is repressed or, in contrast, undesirably activated at ectopic sites.
Ectopic BMP4 can lead to the upregulation of Tbx5 in the retina, and Tbx5 misexpression results in altered retinal ganglion cell axon projections to the tectum [ 56 ] .
Ectopic expression of Msx1 in mouse myotubes (differentiated muscle cells that are multinucleated and are able to contract), coupled with serum stimulation, can induce these multinucleated cells to reduce their levels of myogenic proteins and undergo a cell cleavage process that produces proliferating mononucleated cells (a process known as cellularization) (Odelberg et al.
Because a high level of ectopic expression of E2F is known to induce apoptosis [ 12 ] [ 13 ] , these results suggest that mCul1 overexpression might interfere with normal E2F downregulation.
We show here that T-RA-induced primitive endoderm differentiation is impaired in cell lines constitutively expressing ectopic TAF II 135(372-1083) as judged from, retarded targeted degradation of RARγ2, cell morphology, growth inhibition, apoptotic response, and induction of the RARβ2 marker gene.