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. 2022 Apr 19;13:2080. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29746-y

Fig. 6. FOXF1 synergizes with FLI1 to stimulate Acvrl1 promoter activity.

Fig. 6

a Violin plots were generated using a combined pool of cells from WT and Foxf1WT/S52F E18.5 lungs and show endothelial-enriched expression of ETS transcription factors Fli1, Erg and Ets1. ETS transcription factor Spi1 is not expressed in endothelial, epithelial, and mesenchymal cell lineages in the lung tissue. b Violin plots show that Fli1 is enriched in gCAPs, whereas Erg is enriched in aCAPs. Ets1 expression is similar in aCAPs and gCAPs. The data for box plots were from single cell normalized counts (WT: n = 532; Foxf1WT/S52F: n = 320). Boxplots: center line, median; box boundary, first and third quartiles; whiskers denote 5th–95th percentile. T-test (two-tailed) were performed, pvalue for Fli1 is 0.01677, and for Erg is 0.02791. c Dual luciferase (LUC) assay shows transcriptional synergy between CMV-FOXF1 and CMV-FLI1 expression vectors to activate the ACE400 LUC reporter. Co-transfection experiments were performed using fetal lung MFLM-91U cells (n = 4). Data were shown as mean ± SD, and one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test (two-tailed) were performed. **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, ns is not significant. d ChIPseq shows that FOXF1 and FLI1 proteins bind to the ACE400 region of Acvrl1 gene (red box).