ZFP57 Recognizes Multiple and Closely Spaced Sequence Motif Variants to Maintain Repressive Epigenetic Marks in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Researchers demonstrated in mouse embryonic stem cells that SNPs disrupting closely-spaced hexanucleotide motifs are associated with lack of ZFP57 binding and H3-lysine-9-trimethylation enrichment. [Nucleic Acids Res] Full Article Myeloid Dysregulation in a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of PTPN11-Associated Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia Researchers report that hematopoietic cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells harboring Noonan syndrome/juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)-causing PTPN11 mutations recapitulated JMML features. [Cell Rep] Full Article | Graphical Abstract | Press Release Glycolipid Dynamics in Generation and Differentiation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells The authors defined the dynamics of glycosphingolipid remodeling during reprogramming from parental cell sets to induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) sets and thence to iPSC-neural cells. [Sci Rep] Full Article Derivation of Ethnically Diverse Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Investigators derived xenofree ethnically diverse-human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from fibroblasts obtained from individuals of African American, Hispanic-Latino, Asian, and Caucasian ethnic origin and characterized the lines under a uniform platform for comparative analysis. [Sci Rep] Full Article Progressive Chromatin Condensation and H3K9 Methylation Regulate the Differentiation of Embryonic and Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using nuclease sensitivity assays, scientists found a progressive decrease in chromatin digestion among pluripotent embryonic stem cells, multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, and mature hematopoietic cells. [Stem Cell Rep] Full Article | Graphical Abstract An Orthologous Epigenetic Gene Expression Signature Derived from Differentiating Embryonic Stem Cells Identifies Regulators of Cardiogenesis Scientists used predictive gene expression signatures within a multi-species framework to identify the genes that underlie cardiac cell fate decisions in differentiating embryonic stem cells. [PLoS One] Full Article Differences in the Early Development of Human and Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Investigators performed a systematic analysis of gene expression features in early development of human vs mouse embryonic cells. Many development features were found to be conserved, and a majority of differentially regulated genes have similar expression change in both organisms. [PLoS One] Full Article GSK3β Inhibition Activates the CDX/HOX Pathway and Promotes Hemogenic Endothelial Progenitor Differentiation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Since hematopoietic and endothelial cells are derived from common progenitors, scientists examined the effect of transient GSK3β inhibitor treatment on hematopoietic cell differentiation from human induced pluripotent stem cells. [Exp Hematol] Abstract Derivation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Orangutan Skin Fibroblasts For potential species conservation and functional genomics studies, the authors derived induced pluripotent stem cells from cryopreserved somatic cells obtained from captive orangutans. [BMC Res Notes] Full Article |