ESC & iPSC News Volume 17.47 | Dec 07 2022

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    2022-12-07 | ESC & iPSC 17.47


    ESC & iPSC News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 17.47 – 7 December, 2022
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    Evidence That Direct Inhibition of Transcription Factor Binding Is the Prevailing Mode of Gene and Repeat Repression by DNA Methylation

    Researchers showed that combinatorial genetic deletions of all four proteins with functional methyl-CpG-binding domains in mESCs, derived neurons, or a human cell line did not reactivate genes or repeats with methylated promoters.
    [Nature Genetics]

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    Enhancer–Promoter Interactions and Transcription Are Largely Maintained upon Acute Loss of CTCF, Cohesin, WAPL, or YY1

    To address why acute depletion of CTCF and cohesin only marginally affected expression of most genes, scientists used high-resolution Micro-C and nascent transcript profiling in mESCs.
    [Nature Genetics]

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    A Reference Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Line for Large-Scale Collaborative Studies

    Investigators sub-cloned candidate hiPSC lines and deeply characterized their genetic properties using whole genome sequencing, their genomic stability upon CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing, and their phenotypic properties including differentiation to commonly used cell types.
    [Cell Stem Cell]

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    3D ECM-Rich Environment Sustains the Identity of Naive Human iPSCs

    Using an unbiased and integrated approach combining microfluidic cultures with transcriptional, proteomic, and secretome analyses, researchers found that naive, but not primed, hiPSC colonies were characterized by a self-organized extracellular matrix-rich microenvironment.
    [Cell Stem Cell]

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    Nuclear Localization of Mitochondrial TCA Cycle Enzymes Modulates Pluripotency via Histone Acetylation

    The authors showed that tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes including Pdha1, Pcb, Aco2, Cs, Idh3a, Ogdh, Sdha, and Mdh2 were translocated to the nucleus during somatic cell reprogramming, primed-to-naive transition and totipotency acquisition.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Retrotransposon Instability Dominates the Acquired Mutation Landscape of Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Scientists applied short-read or Oxford Nanopore Technologies long-read genome sequencing to 38 bulk miPSC lines reprogrammed from 10 parental cell types, and 18 single-cell miPSC clones.
    [Nature Communications]

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    3D Chromatin Connectivity Underlies Replication Origin Efficiency in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

    Researchers analyzed origin activity in mESCs in the absence or presence of mild replicative stress induced by aphidicolin, a DNA polymerase inhibitor, or by deregulation of origin licensing factor CDC6.
    [Nucleic Acids Research]

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    Highly Efficient Reprogrammable Mouse Lines with Integrated Reporters to Track the Route to Pluripotency

    The authors reported the development of two transgenic mouse lines from which 2° cells reprogram with unprecedented efficiency. These systems were derived by exposing primary reprogramming cells containing doxycycline-inducible Yamanaka factor expression to a transient interruption in transgene expression.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Formation and Morphology Prediction during Reprogramming with Time-Lapse Bright-Field Microscopy Images Using Deep Learning Methods

    Sets of time-lapse bright-field images were taken to track the reprogramming process of CD34+ cells biologically identified as just beginning reprogramming.
    [Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine]

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    Epigenetic Biomarkers to Track Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Investigators reported GermLayerTracker, a combination of site-specific DNA methylation assays that served as a biomarker for early germ layer specification.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    The Consequences of Recurrent Genetic and Epigenetic Variants in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    The authors summarize current knowledge of the nature of recurrent genetic and epigenetic variants in hPSC culture, the methods for their detection, and what is known concerning their effects on cell behavior in vitro or in vivo.
    [Cell Stem Cell]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    MDimune Inc. Enters into a Research Collaboration Agreement with Australian National University to Collaborate on the Development of Therapeutics for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    MDimune Inc. announced a research collaboration agreement with the Clear Vision Research Lab at the Australian National University.
    [MDimune Inc. (BioSpace.com.)]

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