Activin A in Combination with ERK1/2 MAPK Pathway Inhibition Sustains Propagation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
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ABSTRACT: Activin/Nodal/TGF-β signaling pathway plays a major role in maintaining mouse epiblast stem cells (mEpiSCs). The mEpiSC medium which contains Activin A and bFGF induces differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) to mEpiSC. Here we show that Activin A also has an ability to efficiently propagate mESCs without differentiation to mEpiSCs when combined with a MEK inhibitor PD0325901. mESCs cultured in Activin+PD retained high-level expression of naive pluripotency-related transcription factors. Genome-wide analysis revealed that the gene expression profile of mESCs cultured in Activin+PD resembles that of mESCs cultured in 2i. mESCs cultured in Activin+PD also showed features which are related to naive pluripotency of mESCs, including the preferential usage of the Oct4 distal enhancer and the self-renewal response to Wnt pathway activation. Our finding reveals a role of Activin/Nodal/TGF-β signaling in stabilizing self-renewal gene regulatory networks in mESCs. To compare the gene expression patterns of mESCs cultured in Activin+PD, 2i and LIF+BMP4 and mEpiSCs, we performed genome-wide gene expression analysis by using Affymetrix GeneChip oligonucleotide microarrays
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE84679 | GEO | 2019/07/11
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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