ESC & iPSC News Volume 18.01 | Jan 11 2023

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    2023-01-11 | ESC & iPSC 18.01


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    Vol. 18.01 – 11 January, 2023
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    ZFP462 Safeguards Neural Lineage Specification by Targeting G9A/GLP-Mediated Heterochromatin to Silence Enhancers

    Scientists showed that ZFP462 safeguarded neural lineage specification of mESCs by targeting the H3K9-specific histone methyltransferase complex G9A/GLP to silence meso-endodermal genes.
    [Nature Cell Biology]

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    PTBP1-Activated Co-Transcriptional Splicing Controls Epigenetic Status of Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Researchers examined the role of the RNA-binding protein polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1 (PTBP1) in the process of spliceosomal intron excision using an acute depletion approach followed by the analysis of chromatin- and RNA Pol II-associated transcripts.
    [Molecular Cell]

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    Integrated Intracellular Organization and Its Variations in Human iPS Cells

    Investigators reduced the complexity of how a subset of expressed genes dictates cellular phenotype by focusing on cellular organization and generated the WTC-11 hiPSC Single-Cell Image Dataset v1, which contained more than 200,000 live cells in 3D, spanning 25 key cellular structures.
    [Nature]

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    Metabolic Regulation of Species-Specific Developmental Rates

    Using PSCs, the authors have established an in vitro system that recapitulated the twofold difference in developmental rate between mouse and human embryos.
    [Nature]

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    Retention of ERK in the Cytoplasm Mediates the Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells

    Researchers found that in pluripotent mESCs, ERK1/2 did not translocate to the nucleus either before or after stimulation. This inhibition of nuclear translocation might be dependent on a lack of stimulated ERK1/2 interaction with importin7 rather than a lack of ERK1/2 phosphorylation activating translocation.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    NANOGP1, a Tandem Duplicate of NANOG, Exhibits Partial Functional Conservation in Human Naïve Pluripotent Stem Cells

    To study the contribution of duplicated genes to human early development, investigators examined the evolution and function of NANOGP1, a tandem duplicate of the transcription factor NANOG.
    [Development]

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    RUNX1 Upregulation Causes Mitochondrial Dysfunction via Regulating the PI3K-Akt Pathway in iPSC from Patients with Down Syndrome

    Scientists investigated whether runt-related transcription factor 1 (RUNX1) played a critical role in mitochondrial dysfunction in Down syndrome and explored the mechanism by which RUNX1 affected mitochondrial functions.
    [Molecules and Cells]

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    BRPF1 Bridges H3K4me3 and H3K23ac in Human ESCs and Is Essential to Pluripotency

    The authors showed that BRPF1, a multi-histone binding module protein, was essential for pluripotency in hESCs. BRPF1, H3K4me3, and H3K23ac substantially co-occupied the open chromatin and stemness genes in hESCs.
    [iScience]

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    α-Kleisin Subunit of Cohesin Preserves the Genome Integrity of Embryonic Stem Cells

    Researchers demonstrated that RAD21 and REC8 were involved in maintaining genomic stability and modulating chromatin modification in mESCs.
    [BMB Reports]

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    Molecular Versatility during Pluripotency Progression

    Using pluripotency progression as a paradigm, investigators review how developmental transitions are coordinated by redeployments, rather than global resettings, of cellular components.
    [Nature Communications]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Back ISSCR Global Standards Initiative

    The ISSCR announced partnerships with Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative to support a new global initiative to develop standards for human stem cell use in research.
    [International Society for Stem Cell Research]

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