Systematic discovery of potent cell differentiation-directing transcription factors
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE43971 | GEO | 2014/03/14
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA188298
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:A network of transcription factors (TFs) determines cell identity, but identity can be altered by overexpressing a combination of TFs. In principle, this opens the possibility of achieving one of the goals of regenerative medicine generating the desired differentiated cells from pluripotent stem cells, such as embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. However, choosing and verifying combinations of TFs for specific cell differentiation has been daunting due to a large number of possible combinations of ~2,000 TFs. Here we report an unbiased systematic approach identifying individual TFs that can direct efficient and rapid specific lineage differentiation. We start from a correlation matrix of global gene expression responses to the induction of single TFs and global gene expression profiles of a variety of tissues and organs. Based on the correlation matrix, we select TFs as examples and show that their overexpression differentiates ES cells into cells of specific organs, as predicted: Sfpi1 for blood cells, Hnf4a or Foxa1 for hepatocytes, and Ascl1 for neurons. Furthermore, we show that transfection of synthetic mRNAs of Sfpi1, Hnf4a, or Ascl1 generate correspondingly specific target cells. These results demonstrate both the wide-ranging utility of this approach to identify potent TFs for cell differentiation, and also the unanticipated capacity of single TFs to directly guide differentiation to specific lineage fates. Previously, we generated the global gene expression profiles obtained by overexpressing single TFs using the NIA mouse ES cell bank, which consists of 137 mouse ES cell lines carrying a doxycycline-regulatable TF. We then generated the correlation matrix by comparing TF-induced gene expression profiles and the expression profiles of a variety of cell types. TFs predicted by the correlation matrix for specific cell differentiation were selected and subjected to the detailed differentiation assays. ES cell lines were cultured in the GMEM with 1% FBS, 10% knockout serum (invitrogen), and LIF (Millipore). To induce differentiation, ES cell lines were cultured in the differentiation medium (DM) [(alpha minimal essential medium, aMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and 5 × 10–5 M 2-mercaptoethanol] with or without doxycycline (1 g/ml). The following organ-specific cell culture media were also used: StemPro-34 Serum Free Media (invitrogen) for blood cells, Hepatocyte culture media kit (BD Biosciences) for hepatocytes, and NeuroCult differentiation kit (StemCell Technologies Inc) for neurons.
2014-03-14 | E-GEOD-43971 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Specific neuronal types derived from embryonic stem cells (ESCs) can facilitate mechanistic studies and potentially aid in regenerative medicine. Existing induction methods, however, mostly rely on the effects of growth factors, which generally tend to result in mixed populations of neurons. Here we report that over-expression of specific transcription factors (TFs) in ESCs can rather guide the differentiation of ESCs towards specific neuron types. Analysis of published data on gene expression changes early (two days) after induction of each of 185 induced TFs implicated candidate TFs for further ESC differentiation studies. After induction for 6 days four of them (Ascl1, Smad7, Nr2f1, and Ascl2) generated a high proportion (>35%) of cells with neural progenitor marker PSA-NCAM and clear neural morphology on day 14. The capacity of these TFs to induce neural differentiation is inferred to be most likely linked to early activation of the Notch signaling pathway. Among the neuron-like cells, GABA-positive cells were most abundant (32-97% for 4 top TFs), whereas Isl1-positive cells and TH-positive cells were less abundant (<12% and <5%, respectively). Enrichment of cells obtained with the induction of Ascl1, Smad7, and Nr2f1 using beads with anti-PSA-NCAM antibody resulted in essentially pure population of neuron-like cells with expression profiles similar to neural tissues and highly expressed markers of GABAergic neurons. A time-course experiment with induction of Ascl1 showed early upregulation of most neural-specific and GABAergic-specific mRNA and miRNAs. We identified mRNA and miRNAs, whose expression depended on the induction of Ascl1, and showed that they were enriched in Ascl1 target genes. In summary, this study indicates that induction of transcription factors is a promising approach to generate candidate specific neural cell types from ESCs. Transcription factor Ascl1 was induced in mouse ESCs to facilitate neural differentiation. Expression of transgenic Ascl1 was repressed by doxycycline (Dox); thus, it were induced in Dox- conditions, whereas Dox+ conditions represent control cells with no expression of Ascl1 transgene. For neural differentiation, cells were cultured 3 days in alpha-MEM medium and then - in NeuroCult neural differentiation medium for 2-11 days (total up to 14 days). RNA was extracted with mirVana kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific).
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