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Single cell RNA-seq of mouse embryoid bodies and yolk sac

ABSTRACT: Blood and endothelial cells arise from hemangiogenic progenitors that are specified from FLK1-expressing mesoderm by the transcription factor ETV2. FLK1 mesoderm also contributes to other tissues, including vascular smooth muscle (VSM) and cardiomyocytes. However, the developmental process of FLK1 mesoderm generation and its derivatives and the lineage relationship among FLK1 mesoderm derivatives these tissues remain obscure. Recent single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) studies of early stages of embryogenesis embryos, or in vitro differentiated human embryonic stem (ES) cells have differentiation provided unprecedented information on the spatiotemporal resolution of cells in embryogenesis. Nonetheless, these snapshots still nonetheless offer insufficient information on dynamic developmental processes due to inadvertently missing intermediate states and unavoidable batch effects. Here we performed scRNA-seq of mouse ES cells in asynchronous embryoid bodies (EBs), in vitro differentiated embryonic stem (ES) cells containing undifferentiated ES cells and its differentiated hemangiogenic progeny, as well as yolk sacs, the first hematopoietic extraembryonic tissue in developing embryo that contains hemangiogenic and VSM lineages. We captured a continuous developmental process from undifferentiated pluripotent cells to FLK1 mesoderm-derived tissues involved in hemangiogenesis. This continuous transcriptome map will benefit both basic and applied studies of mesoderm and its derivatives.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE130146 | GEO | 2019/11/25

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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