Publication Date:
2013-08-06
Description:
The germ-cell lineage ensures the continuity of life through the generation of male and female gametes, which unite to form a totipotent zygote. We have previously demonstrated that, by using cytokines, embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells can be induced into epiblast-like cells (EpiLCs) and then into primordial germ cell (PGC)-like cells with the capacity for both spermatogenesis and oogenesis, creating an opportunity for understanding and regulating mammalian germ-cell development in both sexes in vitro. Here we show that, without cytokines, simultaneous overexpression of three transcription factors, Blimp1 (also known as Prdm1), Prdm14 and Tfap2c (also known as AP2gamma), directs EpiLCs, but not embryonic stem cells, swiftly and efficiently into a PGC state. Notably, Prdm14 alone, but not Blimp1 or Tfap2c, suffices for the induction of the PGC state in EpiLCs. The transcription-factor-induced PGC state, irrespective of the transcription factors used, reconstitutes key transcriptome and epigenetic reprogramming in PGCs, but bypasses a mesodermal program that accompanies PGC or PGC-like-cell specification by cytokines including bone morphogenetic protein 4. Notably, the transcription-factor-induced PGC-like cells contribute to spermatogenesis and fertile offspring. Our findings provide a new insight into the transcriptional logic for PGC specification, and create a foundation for the transcription-factor-based reconstitution and regulation of mammalian gametogenesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nakaki, Fumio -- Hayashi, Katsuhiko -- Ohta, Hiroshi -- Kurimoto, Kazuki -- Yabuta, Yukihiro -- Saitou, Mitinori -- England -- Nature. 2013 Sep 12;501(7466):222-6. doi: 10.1038/nature12417. Epub 2013 Aug 4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23913270" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Cell Differentiation/genetics
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*Cell Lineage/genetics
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Embryonic Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism
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Epigenesis, Genetic
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Female
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Fertility
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Germ Cells/*cytology/*metabolism
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Germ Layers/cytology
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Male
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Mesoderm/cytology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Inbred ICR
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Mice, Transgenic
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Spermatogenesis
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Transcription Factor AP-2/genetics/metabolism
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Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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