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- Title
VGLL1 cooperates with TEAD4 to control human trophectoderm lineage specification.
- Authors
Yang, Yueli; Jia, Wenqi; Luo, Zhiwei; Li, Yunpan; Liu, Hao; Fu, Lixin; Li, Jinxiu; Jiang, Yu; Lai, Junjian; Li, Haiwei; Saeed, Babangida Jabir; Zou, Yi; Lv, Yuan; Wu, Liang; Zhou, Ting; Shan, Yongli; Liu, Chuanyu; Lai, Yiwei; Liu, Longqi; Hutchins, Andrew P.
- Abstract
In contrast to rodents, the mechanisms underlying human trophectoderm and early placenta specification are understudied due to ethical barriers and the scarcity of embryos. Recent reports have shown that human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can differentiate into trophectoderm (TE)-like cells (TELCs) and trophoblast stem cells (TSCs), offering a valuable in vitro model to study early placenta specification. Here, we demonstrate that the VGLL1 (vestigial-like family member 1), which is highly expressed during human and non-human primate TE specification in vivo but is negligibly expressed in mouse, is a critical regulator of cell fate determination and self-renewal in human TELCs and TSCs derived from naïve PSCs. Mechanistically, VGLL1 partners with the transcription factor TEAD4 (TEA domain transcription factor 4) to regulate chromatin accessibility at target gene loci through histone acetylation and acts in cooperation with GATA3 and TFAP2C. Our work is relevant to understand primate early embryogenesis and how it differs from other mammalian species. Authors report that VGLL1 regulates cell fate determination and self-renewal of human pluripotent stem cell-derived trophectoderm-like cells and trophoblast stem cells via modulation of chromatin accessibility in cooperation with TEAD4.
- Subjects
CELL determination; PLURIPOTENT stem cells; HUMAN stem cells; STEM cells; HISTONE acetylation
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-44780-8