Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Cell Rep. 2020 Jun 2;31(9):107715. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107715.
Previous studies have suggested that the loss of the translation initiation factor eIF4G1 homolog NAT1 induces excessive self-renewability of naive pluripotent stem cells (PSCs); yet the role of NAT1 in the self-renewal and differentiation of primed PSCs is still unclear. Here, we generate a conditional knockout of NAT1 in primed PSCs and use the cells for the functional analyses of NAT1. Our results show that NAT1 is required for the self-renewal and neural differentiation of primed PSCs. In contrast, NAT1 deficiency in naive pluripotency attenuates the differentiation to all cell types. We also find that NAT1 is involved in efficient protein expression of an RNA uridyltransferase, TUT7. TUT7 is involved in the neural differentiation of primed PSCs via the regulation of human endogenous retrovirus accumulation. These data demonstrate the essential roles of NAT1 and TUT7 in the precise transition of stem cell fate.
先前的研究表明,翻译起始因子 eIF4G1 同源物 NAT1 的缺失会诱导原始多能干细胞(PSCs)过度自我更新;然而,NAT1 在已分化的 PSCs 自我更新和分化中的作用尚不清楚。在这里,我们在已分化的 PSCs 中生成了 NAT1 的条件敲除,并使用这些细胞进行 NAT1 的功能分析。我们的结果表明,NAT1 对于已分化的 PSCs 的自我更新和神经分化是必需的。相比之下,原始多能性中 NAT1 的缺失会减弱向所有细胞类型的分化。我们还发现,NAT1 参与 RNA 尿嘧啶转移酶 TUT7 的有效蛋白表达。TUT7 通过调节人类内源性逆转录病毒的积累参与已分化的 PSCs 的神经分化。这些数据表明 NAT1 和 TUT7 在干细胞命运的精确转变中起着重要作用。