小分子将小鼠胚外干细胞转化为更早的多能性状态。
Conversion of mouse epiblast stem cells to an earlier pluripotency state by small molecules.
机构信息
Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
出版信息
J Biol Chem. 2010 Sep 24;285(39):29676-80. doi: 10.1074/jbc.C110.150599. Epub 2010 Aug 12.
Epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs) are pluripotent cells derived from post-implantation late epiblasts in vitro. EpiSCs are incapable of contributing to chimerism, indicating that EpiSCs are less pluripotent and represent a later developmental pluripotency state compared with inner cell mass stage murine embryonic stem cells (mESCs). Using a chemical approach, we found that blockage of the TGFβ pathway or inhibition of histone demethylase LSD1 with small molecule inhibitors induced dramatic morphological changes in EpiSCs toward mESC phenotypes with simultaneous activation of inner cell mass-specific gene expression. However, full conversion of EpiSCs to the mESC-like state with chimerism competence could be readily generated only with the combination of LSD1, ALK5, MEK, FGFR, and GSK3 inhibitors. Our results demonstrate that appropriate synergy of epigenetic and signaling modulations could convert cells at the later developmental pluripotency state to the earlier mESC-like pluripotency state, providing new insights into pluripotency regulation.
内细胞团样胚胎干细胞(EpiSCs)是从体外植入后晚期内细胞团衍生而来的多能细胞。EpiSCs 不能产生嵌合体,这表明与内细胞团阶段的小鼠胚胎干细胞(mESCs)相比,EpiSCs 的多能性较低,代表了一种更晚期的发育多能性状态。我们使用化学方法发现,阻断 TGFβ 通路或使用小分子抑制剂抑制组蛋白去甲基酶 LSD1,可诱导 EpiSCs 发生显著的形态变化,向 mESC 表型转化,同时激活内细胞团特异性基因表达。然而,只有 LSD1、ALK5、MEK、FGFR 和 GSK3 抑制剂的联合使用,才能轻易地将 EpiSCs 完全转化为具有嵌合能力的 mESC 样状态。我们的结果表明,适当的表观遗传和信号转导调节的协同作用可以将处于晚期发育多能性状态的细胞转化为早期的 mESC 样多能性状态,为多能性调控提供了新的见解。