Project description:The placenta is a poorly understood yet vital support organ. Transcriptome analysis at single cell resolution can help us understand cell compositions, developmental processes, and physiological functions. Both mice and humans have the hemochorial placenta. Profiling the single cell transcriptome of the mouse placenta is necessary for deepening our knowledge of mammalian placentation.We systematically profiled single cell transcriptomes of mouse placentae every day from E7.5 to E14.5. After stringent filtering, 15682 mouse trophoblast cells were subjected to following transcriptome analysis. We noted that trophoblast cells underwent 3 main differentiation stages: E7.5-E8.5, E9.5-E10.5, and E11.5-E14.5. With the help of advanced computational technologies from Velocyto, PAGA, monocle, and SCENIC, we have updated the recognitions of several developmental events. Firstly, P-TGCs are suggested to only derive from EPC like cells. Secondary, sinusoid trophoblast and spongiotrophoblast all derived from EPC cells, and their cell fates have been determined before the chorioallantoic fusion. Sinusoid trophoblast cells were not derived from chorion. Thirdly, SpA-TGCs were suggested to be differentiated from spongiotrophoblast cells via Gly-T cells. Furthermore, new transcription factors have been found to play roles during the differentiation of trophoblast cells. Lastly, the expression of Ifnlr1 in chorion branch cells gradually increased during placentation, which reconfirmed that mature placenta can defend the Zika virus (ZIKV) through IFN signaling. We clarified the developmental histories of mouse trophoblast cells at the branch level, especially the differentiation of sinusoid branch trophoblast cells. Meanwhile, we offered a convincing data resource for the study of mammalian placentation and etiology analysis of pregnancy-associated diseases.
Project description:Critical roles for DNA methylation in embryonic development are well established, but less is known about the roles of DNA methylation during trophoblast development, the extraembryonic lineage that gives rise to the placenta. Here we dissected the role of DNA methylation in trophoblast development by performing mRNA and DNA methylation profiling of Dnmt3a/3b-null trophoblast. We find that most gene deregulation is explained by an erasure of maternal methylation in the oocyte, but partially independent of loss of imprinting of the trophoblast-essential Ascl2 gene. Our results reveal that maternal DNA methylation controls multiple differentiation and physiological processes in trophoblast via both imprinting-dependent and -independent mechanisms. mRNA-seq and WGBS-seq of maternal Dnmt3a/3b-null trophoblast; mRNA-seq of maternal Ascl2 KO trophoblast
Project description:The first lineage decisions during mouse development lead to establishment of embryonic and extraembryonic tissues. The transcription factor Cdx2 plays a central role by repressing pluripotency genes, such as Oct4 and promoting trophoblast fate at the blastocyst stage. Here we show that the transcription factor Gata3 is coexpressed with Cdx2 in the blastocyst and that overexpression of Gata3 in embryonic stem cells is sufficient to induce expression of trophoblast genes. Gata3 expression in the blastocyst does not depend on Cdx2, nor do Gata3 overexpressing cell lines require Cdx2 for expression of a subset of trophoblast genes. In the embryo, expression of Gata3, like Cdx2, depends on Tead4, and expression of both factors becomes restricted to nascent trophoblast by an Oct4-independent mechanism. These observations place Tead4 at the top of a trophoblast hierarchy, with Gata3 and Cdx2 acting downstream to induce expression of common and independent targets in this lineage. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE12985: Differentiation time course of trophoblast stem cells GSE12986: Expression of Cdx2 or Gata3 in R1 mouse embryonic stem cells
Project description:Critical roles for DNA methylation in embryonic development are well established, but less is known about the roles of DNA methylation during trophoblast development, the extraembryonic lineage that gives rise to the placenta. Here we dissected the role of DNA methylation in trophoblast development by performing mRNA and DNA methylation profiling of Dnmt3a/3b-null trophoblast. We find that most gene deregulation is explained by an erasure of maternal methylation in the oocyte, but partially independent of loss of imprinting of the trophoblast-essential Ascl2 gene. Our results reveal that maternal DNA methylation controls multiple differentiation and physiological processes in trophoblast via both imprinting-dependent and -independent mechanisms.
Project description:Current work characterizes mRNA expression derived from mouse neural cortical stem cells incubated with and without EVs derived from either mouse parietal trophoblast giant cells or mouse trophoblast stem cells
Project description:Stem cells reside in specific niches providing stemness-maintaining environments. Thus, the regulated migration from these niches is associated with differentiation onset. However, mechanisms retaining stem cells in their niche remain poorly understood. Here, we show that the epigenetic regulator lysine-specific demethylase 1 (Lsd1) organises the trophoblast niche of the early mouse embryo by coordinating migration and invasion of trophoblast stem cells (TSCs). Lsd1 deficiency leads to the depletion of the stem cell pool resulting from precocious migration of TSCs. Migration is induced by premature expression of the transcription factor Ovol2 that is repressed by Lsd1 in undifferentiated wild-type TSCs. Increasing Ovol2 levels suffices to recapitulate the migration phenotype. Furthermore, Lsd1-deficient TSCs exhibit a developmental bias towards cells of the syncytiotrophoblast and impaired spongiotrophoblast and trophoblast giant cell differentiation. In summary, we describe that the epigenetic modifier Lsd1 coordinates placental development by retaining TSCs in their niche and directing trophoblast differentiation. Mouse trophoblast stem cells (TSCs) were isoloated from a single conditional Lsd1-deficient mouse (Lsd1tm1SchM-CM-<le). Deletion of Lsd1 was induced eight days before the collection of RNA by addition of 0.2 M-BM-5M 4OH-tamoxife. Cells were isolated at successive stages of differentiation for total RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. To that end, we harvested cells at three time-points: before induction of differentiation (d0), two days after induction of differentiation (d2), and four days after induction of differentiation (d4). Three replicates (1, 2, 3) for control (-) and Lsd1-deficeint (+) cells were included for each differentiation stage.