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- Title
Establishment of a primed pluripotent epiblast stem cell in FGF4-based conditions.
- Authors
Jin Young Joo; Hyun Woo Choi; Min Jung Kim; Zaehres, Holm; Tapia, Natalia; tehling, Martin; Koo Sung Jung; Jeong Tae Do; Schöler, Hans R.
- Abstract
Several mouse pluripotent stem cell types have been established either from mouse blastocysts and epiblasts. Among these, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are considered to represent a "naïve", epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs) a "primed" pluripotent state. Although EpiSCs form derivatives of all three germ layers during in vitro differentiation, they rarely incorporate into the inner cell mass of blastocysts and rarely contribute to chimera formation following blastocyst injection. Here we successfully established homogeneous population of EpiSC lines with efficient chimera-forming capability using a medium containing fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-4. The expression levels of Rex1 and Nanog was very low although Oct4 level is comparable to ESCs. EpiSCs also expressed higher levels of epiblast markers, such as Cer1, Eomes, Fgf5, Sox17, and T, and further showed complete DNA methylation of Stella and Dppa5 promoters. However, the EpiSCs were clustered separately from E3 and T9 EpiSC lines and showed a completely different global gene expression pattern to ESCs. Furthermore, the EpiSCs were able to differentiate into all three germ layers in vitro and efficiently formed teratomas and chimeric embryos (21.4%) without germ-line contribution
- Subjects
PLURIPOTENT stem cells; EPIBLAST; FIBROBLAST growth factors; BLASTOCYST; CHIMERISM; GENE expression; LABORATORY mice
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep07477