In vertebrates, the genes encoding the class of transcription factors called homeobox genes are found in clusters named A, B, C, and D on four separate chromosomes. Expression of these proteins is spatially and temporally regulated during embryonic development. This gene is part of the A cluster on chromosome 7 and encodes a DNA-binding transcription factor that may regulate gene expression, morphogenesis, and differentiation. More specifically, it may function in fertility, embryo viability, and regulation of hematopoietic lineage commitment. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described.[3]
Downregualtion of HOXA10 is observed in the human and baboon decidua after implantation and this downregulation promotes trophoblast invasion by activating STAT3[4]
↑Godbole, Geeta; Suman, Pankaj; Malik, Ankita; Galvankar, Mosami; Joshi, Niraj; Fazleabas, Asgi; Gupta, Satish; Modi, Deepak. "Decrease in Expression of HOXA10 in the Decidua After Embryo Implantation Promotes Trophoblast Invasion". Endocrinology. 158 (8): 2618-2633. doi:10.1210/en.2017-00032. PMID28520923.
↑Eklund EA, Goldenberg I, Lu Y, Andrejic J, Kakar R (Sep 2002). "SHP1 protein-tyrosine phosphatase regulates HoxA10 DNA binding and transcriptional repression activity in undifferentiated myeloid cells". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277 (39): 36878–88. doi:10.1074/jbc.M203917200. PMID12145285.
Further reading
Eun Kwon H, Taylor HS (Dec 2004). "The role of HOX genes in human implantation". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1034: 1–18. doi:10.1196/annals.1335.001. PMID15731295.
Lawrence HJ, Sauvageau G, Ahmadi N, Lopez AR, LeBeau MM, Link M, Humphries K, Largman C (Oct 1995). "Stage- and lineage-specific expression of the HOXA10 homeobox gene in normal and leukemic hematopoietic cells". Experimental Hematology. 23 (11): 1160–6. PMID7556525.
Satokata I, Benson G, Maas R (Mar 1995). "Sexually dimorphic sterility phenotypes in Hoxa10-deficient mice". Nature. 374 (6521): 460–3. doi:10.1038/374460a0. PMID7700356.
Castronovo V, Kusaka M, Chariot A, Gielen J, Sobel M (Jan 1994). "Homeobox genes: potential candidates for the transcriptional control of the transformed and invasive phenotype". Biochemical Pharmacology. 47 (1): 137–43. doi:10.1016/0006-2952(94)90447-2. PMID7906121.
Apiou F, Flagiello D, Cillo C, Malfoy B, Poupon MF, Dutrillaux B (1996). "Fine mapping of human HOX gene clusters". Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 73 (1–2): 114–5. doi:10.1159/000134320. PMID8646877.
Taylor HS, Vanden Heuvel GB, Igarashi P (Dec 1997). "A conserved Hox axis in the mouse and human female reproductive system: late establishment and persistent adult expression of the Hoxa cluster genes". Biology of Reproduction. 57 (6): 1338–45. doi:10.1095/biolreprod57.6.1338. PMID9408238.
Kawagoe H, Humphries RK, Blair A, Sutherland HJ, Hogge DE (May 1999). "Expression of HOX genes, HOX cofactors, and MLL in phenotypically and functionally defined subpopulations of leukemic and normal human hematopoietic cells". Leukemia. 13 (5): 687–98. doi:10.1038/sj/leu/2401410. PMID10374871.
Eklund EA, Jalava A, Kakar R (Jun 2000). "Tyrosine phosphorylation of HoxA10 decreases DNA binding and transcriptional repression during interferon gamma -induced differentiation of myeloid leukemia cell lines". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275 (26): 20117–26. doi:10.1074/jbc.M907915199. PMID10766757.
Buske C, Feuring-Buske M, Antonchuk J, Rosten P, Hogge DE, Eaves CJ, Humphries RK (Apr 2001). "Overexpression of HOXA10 perturbs human lymphomyelopoiesis in vitro and in vivo". Blood. 97 (8): 2286–92. doi:10.1182/blood.V97.8.2286. PMID11290589.
Cermik D, Karaca M, Taylor HS (Jul 2001). "HOXA10 expression is repressed by progesterone in the myometrium: differential tissue-specific regulation of HOX gene expression in the reproductive tract". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 86 (7): 3387–92. doi:10.1210/jc.86.7.3387. PMID11443215.