ZFIN

ZFIN ID: ZDB-GENE-040426-2209

ZFIN ID: ZDB-GENE-040426-2209

CITATIONS (88 total)

Gene Name:	epithelial cell adhesion molecule
Gene Symbol:	epcam

Ahn, S., Baek, S.E., Yu, Y., Kim, E.S., Myung, K., Kim, Y.H., Oh, C.K. (2025) The role of AP2M1 in oncofetal characteristics: integrative in silico, in vitro, and in vivo analyses using zebrafish models. European journal of medical research. :

Cheng, Y., Ang, B., Ma, D., Li, Z., Guo, F., Wang, Z., Chen, Q., Zeng, M., Chen, J., Adhikari, B., Yin, L., Wang, T., Zheng, Z., He, Z. (2025) Transcriptomic and Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analyses Reveal Superior Multitarget Mechanisms of Dihydroquercetin Derivatives over Dihydroquercetin in Alleviating Energy Metabolism and Neurological Disorders in Diabetic Zebrafish. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. :

Bufalo, A.J., Vanderbeck, M.M., Schmitt, J., McGraw, H.F. (2024) EpCAM regulates hair cell development and regeneration in the zebrafish lateral line. microPublication. Biology. 2024:

Lee, S., Memon, A., Chae, S.C., Shin, D., Choi, T.Y. (2024) Epcam regulates intrahepatic bile duct reconstruction in zebrafish, providing a potential model for primary cholangitis model. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 696:149512149512

Wang, W., Yang, N., Wang, L., Zhu, Y., Chu, X., Xu, W., Li, Y., Xu, Y., Gao, L., Zhang, B., Zhang, G., Sun, Q., Wang, W., Wang, Q., Zhang, W., Chen, D. (2024) The TET-Sall4-BMP regulatory axis controls craniofacial cartilage development. Cell Reports. 43:113873113873

Cheng, T., Xing, Y.Y., Liu, C., Li, Y.F., Huang, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, Y.J., Zhao, G.Q., Dong, Y., Fu, X.X., Tian, Y.M., Shu, L.P., Megason, S.G., Xu, P.F. (2023) Nodal coordinates the anterior-posterior patterning of germ layers and induces head formation in zebrafish explants. Cell Reports. 42:112351112351

Hatzold, J., Nett, V., Brantsch, S., Zhang, J.L., Armistead, J., Wessendorf, H., Stephens, R., Humbert, P.O., Iden, S., Hammerschmidt, M. (2023) Matriptase-dependent epidermal pre-neoplasm in zebrafish embryos caused by a combination of hypotonic stress and epithelial polarity defects. PLoS Genetics. 19:e1010873e1010873

Kim, M., So, J., Shin, D. (2023) PPARα activation promotes liver progenitor cell-mediated liver regeneration by suppressing YAP signaling in zebrafish. Scientific Reports. 13:1831218312

Lu, F., Leach, L.L., Gross, J.M. (2023) A CRISPR-Cas9-mediated F0 screen to identify pro-regenerative genes in the zebrafish retinal pigment epithelium. Scientific Reports. 13:31423142

Massaquoi, M.S., Kong, G.L., Chilin-Fuentes, D., Ngo, J.S., Horve, P.F., Melancon, E., Hamilton, M.K., Eisen, J.S., Guillemin, K. (2023) Cell-type-specific responses to the microbiota across all tissues of the larval zebrafish. Cell Reports. 42:112095112095

Ni, Y., Zhang, Y., Zheng, L., Rong, N., Yang, Y., Gong, P., Yang, Y., Siwu, X., Zhang, C., Zhu, L., Fu, Z. (2023) Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus improve inflammatory bowel disease in zebrafish of different ages by regulating the intestinal mucosal barrier and microbiota. Life sciences. 324:121699

Vöcking, O., Famulski, J.K. (2023) A temporal single cell transcriptome atlas of zebrafish anterior segment development. Scientific Reports. 13:56565656

Denans, N., Tran, N.T.T., Swall, M.E., Diaz, D.C., Blanck, J., Piotrowski, T. (2022) An anti-inflammatory activation sequence governs macrophage transcriptional dynamics during tissue injury in zebrafish. Nature communications. 13:5356

Edelman, H.E., McClymont, S.A., Tucker, T.R., Pineda, S., Beer, R.L., McCallion, A.S., Parsons, M.J. (2021) SOX9 modulates cancer biomarker and cilia genes in pancreatic cancer. Human molecular genetics. 30(6):485-499

Hatzold, J., Wessendorf, H., Pogoda, H.M., Bloch, W., Hammerschmidt, M. (2021) The Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor Spint2 is required for cellular cohesion, coordinated cell migration and cell survival during zebrafish hatching gland development. Developmental Biology. 476:148-170

Lencer, E., Prekeris, R., Artinger, K.B. (2021) Single-cell RNA analysis identifies pre-migratory neural crest cells expressing markers of differentiated derivatives. eLIFE. 10:

Hou, Y., Lee, H.J., Chen, Y., Ge, J., Osman, F.O.I., McAdow, A.R., Mokalled, M.H., Johnson, S.L., Zhao, G., Wang, T. (2020) Cellular diversity of the regenerating caudal fin. Science advances. 6:eaba2084

Kobayashi-Sun, J., Suzuki, N., Hattori, A., Yamaguchi, M., Kobayashi, I. (2020) Melatonin suppresses both osteoblast and osteoclast differentiation through repression of epidermal Erk signaling in the zebrafish scale. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 530(4):644-650

Lau, S., Feitzinger, A., Venkiteswaran, G., Wang, J., Lewellis, S.W., Koplinski, C.A., Peterson, F.C., Volkman, B.F., Meier-Schellersheim, M., Knaut, H. (2020) A negative-feedback loop maintains optimal chemokine concentrations for directional cell migration. Nature cell biology. 22(3):266-273

Liu, R., Hu, X., Lü, A., Song, Y., Lian, Z., Sun, J., Sung, Y.Y. (2020) Proteomic Profiling of Zebrafish Challenged by Spring Viremia of Carp Virus Provides Insight into Skin Antiviral Response. Zebrafish. 17:91-103

So, J., Kim, M., Lee, S.H., Ko, S., Lee, D.A., Park, H., Azuma, M., Parsons, M.J., Prober, D., Shin, D. (2020) Attenuating the EGFR-ERK-SOX9 axis promotes liver progenitor cell-mediated liver regeneration in zebrafish. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 73(4):1494-1508

Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., Yao, X., Wang, C., Chen, F., Liu, D., Shao, M., Xu, Z. (2020) Rbm24a Is Necessary for Hair Cell Development Through Regulating mRNA Stability in Zebrafish. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 8:604026

Chuang, L.S., Morrison, J., Hsu, N.Y., Labrias, P.R., Nayar, S., Chen, E., Villaverde, N., Facey, J.A., Boschetti, G., Giri, M., Castillo-Martin, M., Thin, T.H., Sharma, Y., Chu, J., Cho, J.H. (2019) Zebrafish modeling of intestinal injury, bacterial exposures, and medications defines epithelial in vivo responses relevant to human inflammatory bowel disease. Disease models & mechanisms. 12(8):

Lin, X., Zhou, Q., Zhao, C., Lin, G., Xu, J., Wen, Z. (2019) An Ectoderm-Derived Myeloid-like Cell Population Functions as Antigen Transporters for Langerhans Cells in Zebrafish Epidermis. Developmental Cell. 49(4):605-617.e5

Ko, S., Russell, J.O., Tian, J., Gao, C., Kobayashi, M., Feng, R., Yuan, X., Shao, C., Ding, H., Poddar, M., Singh, S., Locker, J., Weng, H.L., Monga, S.P., Shin, D. (2018) Hdac1 Regulates Differentiation of Bipotent Liver Progenitor Cells During Regeneration via Sox9b and Cdk8. Gastroenterology. 156(1):187-202.e14

Naylor, R.W., Chang, H.G., Qubisi, S., Davidson, A.J. (2018) A novel mechanism of gland formation in zebrafish involving transdifferentiation of renal epithelial cells and live cell extrusion. eLIFE. 7:

Neelathi, U.M., Dalle Nogare, D., Chitnis, A.B. (2018) Cxcl12a induces snail1b expression to initiate collective migration and sequential Fgf-dependent neuromast formation in the zebrafish posterior lateral line primordium.. Development (Cambridge, England). 145(14):

Wagner, D.E., Weinreb, C., Collins, Z.M., Briggs, J.A., Megason, S.G., Klein, A.M. (2018) Single-cell mapping of gene expression landscapes and lineage in the zebrafish embryo. Science (New York, N.Y.). 360(6392):981-987

Williams, M.L.K., Sawada, A., Budine, T., Yin, C., Gontarz, P., Solnica-Krezel, L. (2018) Gon4l regulates notochord boundary formation and cell polarity underlying axis extension by repressing adhesion genes. Nature communications. 9:1319

Choi, T.Y., Khaliq, M., Tsurusaki, S., Ninov, N., Stainier, D.Y.R., Tanaka, M., Shin, D. (2017) Bmp Signaling Governs Biliary-Driven Liver Regeneration in Zebrafish via Tbx2b and Id2a. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 66(5):1616-1630

Kozlovskaja-Gumbrienė, A., Yi, R., Alexander, R., Aman, A., Jiskra, R., Nagelberg, D., Knaut, H., McClain, M., Piotrowski, T. (2017) Proliferation-independent regulation of organ size by Fgf/Notch signaling. eLIFE. 6

Kuechlin, S., Schoels, M., Slanchev, K., Lassmann, S., Walz, G., Yakulov, T.A. (2017) EpCAM controls morphogenetic programs during zebrafish pronephros development. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 487(2):209-215

Li, X., Song, G., Zhao, Y., Zhao, F., Liu, C., Liu, D., Li, Q., Cui, Z. (2017) Claudin7b is required for the formation and function of inner ear in zebrafish. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 233(4):3195-3206

Wang, J., Leng, X., Wang, G., Wan, X., Cao, H. (2017) The construction of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma model in zebrafish. Scientific Reports. 7:13419

Bugel, S.M., Wehmas, L.C., La Du, J.K., Tanguay, R.L. (2016) Phenotype anchoring in zebrafish reveals a potential role for matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in tamoxifen's effects on skin epithelium. Toxicology and applied pharmacology. 296:31-41

Holzer, G., Morishita, Y., Fini, J.B., Lorin, T., Gillet, B., Hughes, S., Tohmé, M., Deléage, G., Demeneix, B., Arvan, P., Laudet, V. (2016) Thyroglobulin Represents a Novel Molecular Architecture of Vertebrates. The Journal of biological chemistry. 291(32):16553-66

Ko, S., Choi, T.Y., Russell, J.O., So, J., Monga, S.P., Shin, D. (2016) Bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) proteins regulate biliary-driven liver regeneration. Journal of hepatology. 64(2):316-25

Takamiya, M., Weger, B.D., Schindler, S., Beil, T., Yang, L., Armant, O., Ferg, M., Schlunck, G., Reinhard, T., Dickmeis, T., Rastegar, S., Strähle, U. (2015) Molecular Description of Eye Defects in the Zebrafish Pax6b Mutant, sunrise, Reveals a Pax6b-Dependent Genetic Network in the Developing Anterior Chamber. PLoS One. 10:e0117645

Balci, T.B., Prykhozhij, S.V., Teh, E.M., Da'as, S.I., McBride, E., Liwski, R., Chute, I.C., Leger, D., Lewis, S.M., Berman, J.N. (2014) A transgenic zebrafish model expressing KIT-D816V recapitulates features of aggressive systemic mastocytosis. British journal of haematology. 167(1):48-61

Lin, T.Y., Chou, C.F., Chung, H.Y., Chiang, C.Y., Li, C.H., Wu, J.L., Lin, H.J., Pai, T.W., Hu, C.H., Tzou, W.S. (2014) Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2 Alpha Is Essential for Hepatic Outgrowth and Functions via the Regulation of leg1 Transcription in the Zebrafish Embryo. PLoS One. 9:e101980

de la Garza, G., Schleiffarth, J.R., Dunnwald, M., Mankad, A., Weirather, J.L., Bonde, G., Butcher, S., Mansour, T.A., Kousa, Y.A., Fukazawa, C.F., Houston, D.W., Manak, J.R., Schutte, B.C., Wagner, D.S., and Cornell, R.A. (2013) Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 Promotes Differentiation of the Periderm by Activating Expression of Grainyhead-Like 3. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 133(1):68-77

Guan, R., Ei-Rass, S., Spillane, D., Lam, S., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Chen, Z., Wang, A., Jia, Z., Keating, A., Hu, J., and Wen, X.Y. (2013) rbm 47, a novel RNA binding protein, regulates zebrafish head development. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 242(12):1395-404

Lu, H., Ma, J., Yang, Y., Shi, W., and Luo, L. (2013) EpCAM Is an Endoderm-Specific Wnt Derepressor that Licenses Hepatic Development. Developmental Cell. 24(5):543-553

Melvin, V.S., Feng, W., Hernandez-Lagunas, L., Artinger, K.B., and Williams, T. (2013) A morpholino-based screen to identify novel genes involved in craniofacial morphogenesis. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 242(7):817-31

Naylor, R.W., Przepiorski, A., Ren, Q., Yu, J., and Davidson, A.J. (2013) HNF1beta Is Essential for Nephron Segmentation during Nephrogenesis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 24(1):77-87

Vannier, C., Mock, K., Brabletz, T., and Driever, W. (2013) Zeb1 regulates E-cadherin and Epcam expression to control cell behavior in early zebrafish development. The Journal of biological chemistry. 288(26):18643-59

Venkiteswaran, G., Lewellis, S.W., Wang, J., Reynolds, E., Nicholson, C., and Knaut, H. (2013) Generation and Dynamics of an Endogenous, Self-Generated Signaling Gradient across a Migrating Tissue. Cell. 155(3):674-687

Xu, H., Lam, S.H., Shen, Y., and Gong, Z. (2013) Genome-wide identification of molecular pathways and biomarkers in response to arsenic exposure in zebrafish liver. PLoS One. 8(7):e68737

Dworkin, S., Darido, C., Georgy, S.R., Wilanowski, T., Srivastava, S., Ellett, F., Pase, L., Han, Y., Meng, A., Heath, J.K., Lieschke, G.J., and Jane, S.M. (2012) Midbrain-hindbrain boundary patterning and morphogenesis are regulated by diverse grainy head-like 2-dependent pathways. Development (Cambridge, England). 139(3):525-536

Ma, D., Wang, L., Wang, S., Gao, Y., Wei, Y., and Liu, F. (2012) Foxn1 maintains thymic epithelial cells to support T-cell development via mcm2 in zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109(51):21040-21045

Mohseny, A.B., Xiao, W., Carvalho, R., Spaink, H.P., Hogendoorn, P.C., and Cleton-Jansen, AM. (2012) An osteosarcoma zebrafish model implicates Mmp-19 and Ets-1 as well as reduced host immune response in angiogenesis and migration. The Journal of pathology. 227(2):245-253

Han, Y., Mu, Y., Li, X., Xu, P., Tong, J., Liu, Z., Ma, T., Zeng, G., Yang, S., Du, J., and Meng, A. (2011) Grhl2 deficiency impairs otic development and hearing ability in a zebrafish model of the progressive dominant hearing loss DFNA28. Human molecular genetics. 20(16):3213-26

Gallardo, V.E., Liang, J., Behra, M., Elkahloun, A., Villablanca, E.J., Russo, V., Allende, M.L., and Burgess, S.M. (2010) Molecular dissection of the migrating posterior lateral line primordium during early development in zebrafish. BMC Developmental Biology. 10:120

Go, W., Bessarab, D., and Korzh, V. (2010) atp2b1a regulates Ca(2+) export during differentiation and regeneration of mechanosensory hair cells in zebrafish. Cell Calcium. 48(5):302-313

Hegedus, Z., Zakrzewska, A., Agoston, V.C., Ordas, A., Rácz, P., Mink, M., Spaink, H.P., and Meijer, A.H. (2009) Deep sequencing of the zebrafish transcriptome response to mycobacterium infection. Molecular immunology. 46(15):2918-2930

Slanchev, K., Carney, T.J., Stemmler, M.P., Koschorz, B., Amsterdam, A., Schwarz, H., and Hammerschmidt, M. (2009) The epithelial cell adhesion molecule EpCAM is required for epithelial morphogenesis and integrity during zebrafish epiboly and skin development. PLoS Genetics. 5(7):e1000563

Webb, K.J., Norton, W.H.J., Trumbach, D., Meijer, A.H., Ninkovic, J., Topp, S., Heck, D., Marr, C., Wurst, W., Theis, F.J., Spaink, H.P., and Bally-Cuif, L. (2009) Zebrafish reward mutants reveal novel transcripts mediating the behavioral effects of amphetamine. Genome biology. 10(7):R81

Yanicostas, C., Ernest, S., Dayraud, C., Petit, C., and Soussi-Yanicostas, N. (2008) Essential requirement for zebrafish anosmin-1a in the migration of the posterior lateral line primordium. Developmental Biology. 320(2):469-479

Villablanca, E.J., Renucci, A., Sapede, D., Lec, V., Soubiran, F., Sandoval, P.C., Dambly-Chaudiere, C., Ghysen, A., and Allende, M.L. (2006) Control of cell migration in the zebrafish lateral line: Implication of the gene "Tumour-Associated Calcium Signal Transducer," tacstd. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 235(6):1578-1588

Woods, I.G., Wilson, C., Friedlander, B., Chang, P., Reyes, D.K., Nix, R., Kelly, P.D., Chu, F., Postlethwait, J.H., and Talbot, W.S. (2005) The zebrafish gene map defines ancestral vertebrate chromosomes. Genome research. 15(9):1307-1314

Amsterdam, A., Nissen, R.M., Sun, Z., Swindell, E., Farrington, S., and Hopkins, N. (2004) Identification of 315 genes essential for early zebrafish development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101(35):12792-12797

Padhi, B.K., Joly, L., Tellis, P., Smith, A., Nanjappa, P., Chevrette, M., Ekker, M., and Akimenko, M.A. (2004) Screen for genes differentially expressed during regeneration of the zebrafish caudal fin. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 231(3):527-541

Strausberg,R.L., Feingold,E.A., Grouse,L.H., Derge,J.G., Klausner,R.D., Collins,F.S., Wagner,L., Shenmen,C.M., Schuler,G.D., Altschul,S.F., Zeeberg,B., Buetow,K.H., Schaefer,C.F., Bhat,N.K., Hopkins,R.F., Jordan,H., Moore,T., Max,S.I., Wang,J., Hsieh,F., Diatchenko,L., Marusina,K., Farmer,A.A., Rubin,G.M., Hong,L., Stapleton,M., Soares,M.B., Bonaldo,M.F., Casavant,T.L., Scheetz,T.E., Brownstein,M.J., Usdin,T.B., Toshiyuki,S., Carninci,P., Prange,C., Raha,S.S., Loquellano,N.A., Peters,G.J., Abramson,R.D., Mullahy,S.J., Bosak,S.A., McEwan,P.J., McKernan,K.J., Malek,J.A., Gunaratne,P.H., Richards,S., Worley,K.C., Hale,S., Garcia,A.M., Gay,L.J., Hulyk,S.W., Villalon,D.K., Muzny,D.M., Sodergren,E.J., Lu,X., Gibbs,R.A., Fahey,J., Helton,E., Ketteman,M., Madan,A., Rodrigues,S., Sanchez,A., Whiting,M., Madan,A., Young,A.C., Shevchenko,Y., Bouffard,G.G., Blakesley,R.W., Touchman,J.W., Green,E.D., Dickson,M.C., Rodriguez,A.C., Grimwood,J., Schmutz,J., Myers,R.M., Butterfield,Y.S., Krzywinski,M.I., Skalska,U., Smailus,D.E., Schnerch,A., Schein,J.E., Jones,S.J., and Marra,M.A. (2002) Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99(26):16899-903

Additional Citations (25):

ZFIN Staff (2023) Automated Curation of UniProt Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2022) Electronic Gene Ontology annotations created by ARBA machine learning models. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2020) Addition of links from ZFIN to Expression Atlas. Semi-automated Curation.

ZFIN Staff (2019) Analysis of data directly submitted to the Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC). ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2017) Curation of PANTHER Gene IDs. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2017) Curation of Alliance of Genome Resources Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2015) Data Model Change: Sequence Targeting Reagents Removed from Environment. ZFIN Historical Data.

Busch-Nentwich, E., Kettleborough, R., Dooley, C. M., Scahill, C., Sealy, I., White, R., Herd, C., Mehroke, S., Wali, N., Carruthers, S., Hall, A., Collins, J., Gibbons, R., Pusztai, Z., Clark, R., and Stemple, D.L. (2013) Sanger Institute Zebrafish Mutation Project mutant data submission. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZIRC and ZFIN staff (2013) Mutant and Transgenic Line Submissions 2013. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

UniProt-GOA (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on the automatic assignment of UniProtKB Subcellular Location terms in UniProtKB/TrEMBL entries. Manually curated data.

Gaudet, P., Livstone, M., Thomas, P., The Reference Genome Project (2010) Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees. Automated Data Submission.

Sanger(Havana Group) and ZFIN Staff (2009) Manual Annotation of the zebrafish genome. Manually curated data.

ZIRC and ZFIN Staff (2008) Mutant and Transgenic Line Submissions 2008. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2007) Microarray Expression to Gene Association in ZFIN. Semi-automated Curation.

Phenotype Annotation (1994-2006) (2006) Mutant Data Curated from Older Literature. ZFIN Historical Data.

ZFIN Staff (2006) Curation of SNP Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2006) Curation of Ensembl Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2004) ZGC Data Curation and Association in ZFIN by ZFIN Staff. Semi-automated Curation.

Zebrafish Nomenclature Committee (2003) Nomenclature Data Curation (2003-2010). Nomenclature Committee Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2003) Curation of VEGA Database Links. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2003) Curation of orthology data. Manually curated data.

ZFIN Staff (2002) Curation of NCBI Gene Data Via Shared RNA Sequence IDs. Automated Data Submission.

ZFIN Staff (2002) Scientific Curation. Manually curated data.

ZFIN Staff (2002) Gene Ontology Annotation Through Association of InterPro Records with GO Terms. Automated Data Submission.

Thisse, B., Pflumio, S., Fürthauer, M., Loppin, B., Heyer, V., Degrave, A., Woehl, R., Lux, A., Steffan, T., Charbonnier, X.Q. and Thisse, C. (2001) Expression of the zebrafish genome during embryogenesis (NIH R01 RR15402). ZFIN Direct Data Submission.