Publication Date:
2014-12-24
Description:
Models derived from human pluripotent stem cells that accurately recapitulate neural development in vitro and allow for the generation of specific neuronal subtypes are of major interest to the stem cell and biomedical community. Notch signalling, particularly through the Notch effector HES5, is a major pathway critical for the onset and maintenance of neural progenitor cells in the embryonic and adult nervous system. Here we report the transcriptional and epigenomic analysis of six consecutive neural progenitor cell stages derived from a HES5::eGFP reporter human embryonic stem cell line. Using this system, we aimed to model cell-fate decisions including specification, expansion and patterning during the ontogeny of cortical neural stem and progenitor cells. In order to dissect regulatory mechanisms that orchestrate the stage-specific differentiation process, we developed a computational framework to infer key regulators of each cell-state transition based on the progressive remodelling of the epigenetic landscape and then validated these through a pooled short hairpin RNA screen. We were also able to refine our previous observations on epigenetic priming at transcription factor binding sites and suggest here that they are mediated by combinations of core and stage-specific factors. Taken together, we demonstrate the utility of our system and outline a general framework, not limited to the context of the neural lineage, to dissect regulatory circuits of differentiation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336237/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336237/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ziller, Michael J -- Edri, Reuven -- Yaffe, Yakey -- Donaghey, Julie -- Pop, Ramona -- Mallard, William -- Issner, Robbyn -- Gifford, Casey A -- Goren, Alon -- Xing, Jeffrey -- Gu, Hongcang -- Cacchiarelli, Davide -- Tsankov, Alexander M -- Epstein, Charles -- Rinn, John L -- Mikkelsen, Tarjei S -- Kohlbacher, Oliver -- Gnirke, Andreas -- Bernstein, Bradley E -- Elkabetz, Yechiel -- Meissner, Alexander -- F32 DK095537/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- HG006911/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P01 GM099117/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P01GM099117/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U01 ES017155/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ -- U01ES017155/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ -- U54 HG006991/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Feb 19;518(7539):355-9. doi: 10.1038/nature13990. Epub 2014 Dec 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [3] Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 6997801, Israel. ; 1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; 1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA [3] Center for Systems Biology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. ; Applied Bioinformatics, Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology Center, University of Tubingen, Tubingen 72076, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25533951" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Binding Sites
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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/*genetics
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Epigenomics/*methods
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Humans
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Neural Stem Cells/*cytology/*metabolism
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RNA, Small Interfering/analysis/genetics
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Reproducibility of Results
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Transcription Factors/metabolism
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Transcription, Genetic/genetics
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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