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Honey bee Royalactin unlocks conserved pluripotency pathway in mammals.

ABSTRACT: Royal jelly is the queen-maker for the honey bee Apis mellifera, and has cross-species effects on longevity, fertility, and regeneration in mammals. Despite this knowledge, how royal jelly or its components exert their myriad effects has remained poorly understood. Using mouse embryonic stem cells as a platform, here we report that through its major protein component Royalactin, royal jelly can maintain pluripotency by activating a ground-state pluripotency-like gene network. We further identify Regina, a mammalian structural analog of Royalactin that also induces a naive-like state in mouse embryonic stem cells. This reveals an important innate program for stem cell self-renewal with broad implications in understanding the molecular regulation of stem cell fate across species.

SUBMITTER: Wan DC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6277453 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Honey bee Royalactin unlocks conserved pluripotency pathway in mammals.

Wan Derrick C DC Morgan Stefanie L SL Spencley Andrew L AL Mariano Natasha N Chang Erin Y EY Shankar Gautam G Luo Yunhai Y Li Ted H TH Huh Dana D Huynh Star K SK Garcia Jasmine M JM Dovey Cole M CM Lumb Jennifer J Liu Ling L Brown Katharine V KV Bermudez Abel A Luong Richard R Zeng Hong H Mascetti Victoria L VL Pitteri Sharon J SJ Wang Jordon J Tu Hua H Quarta Marco M Sebastiano Vittorio V Nusse Roel R Rando Thomas A TA Carette Jan E JE Bazan J Fernando JF Wang Kevin C KC

Nature communications 20181204 1

Royal jelly is the queen-maker for the honey bee Apis mellifera, and has cross-species effects on longevity, fertility, and regeneration in mammals. Despite this knowledge, how royal jelly or its components exert their myriad effects has remained poorly understood. Using mouse embryonic stem cells as a platform, here we report that through its major protein component Royalactin, royal jelly can maintain pluripotency by activating a ground-state pluripotency-like gene network. We further identify ...[more]

PMID: 30510260

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Honey bee Royalactin unlocks conserved pluripotency pathway in mammals.

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Honey bee Royalactin unlocks conserved pluripotency pathway in mammals.

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