Publication Date:
2014-12-05
Description:
Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are capable of dynamic interconversion between distinct substates; however, the regulatory circuits specifying these states and enabling transitions between them are not well understood. Here we set out to characterize transcriptional heterogeneity in mouse PSCs by single-cell expression profiling under different chemical and genetic perturbations. Signalling factors and developmental regulators show highly variable expression, with expression states for some variable genes heritable through multiple cell divisions. Expression variability and population heterogeneity can be influenced by perturbation of signalling pathways and chromatin regulators. Notably, either removal of mature microRNAs or pharmacological blockage of signalling pathways drives PSCs into a low-noise ground state characterized by a reconfigured pluripotency network, enhanced self-renewal and a distinct chromatin state, an effect mediated by opposing microRNA families acting on the Myc/Lin28/let-7 axis. These data provide insight into the nature of transcriptional heterogeneity in PSCs.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4256722/" 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/PMC4256722/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kumar, Roshan M -- Cahan, Patrick -- Shalek, Alex K -- Satija, Rahul -- DaleyKeyser, A Jay -- Li, Hu -- Zhang, Jin -- Pardee, Keith -- Gennert, David -- Trombetta, John J -- Ferrante, Thomas C -- Regev, Aviv -- Daley, George Q -- Collins, James J -- 1F32HD075541-01/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- 1P50HG006193- 01/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- DP1 CA174427/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- DP1 OD003958/OD/NIH HHS/ -- DP1OD003958-01/OD/NIH HHS/ -- F32 HD075541/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- K01 DK096013/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- K01DK096013/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- NIH-P30-HD18655/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P50 HG005550/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P50 HG006193/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P50HG005550/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM107536/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM107536/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R24 DK092760/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R24DK092760/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- T32 HL007623/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- T32HL007623/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- T32HL066987/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Dec 4;516(7529):56-61. doi: 10.1038/nature13920.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center of Synthetic Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. ; Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Department of Physics, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Center for Individualized Medicine, Department of Molecular Pharmacology &Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. ; 1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25471879" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Death
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Cell Division
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Embryonic Stem Cells/cytology/physiology
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Gene Expression Profiling
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*Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
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Mice
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MicroRNAs/metabolism
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Pluripotent Stem Cells/cytology/*physiology
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Signal Transduction
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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