Ascorbate effect on serum free cultured hESC

ABSTRACT: Ascorbate activates CD30 expression and causes widespread specific demethylation of the epigenome of serum free cultured hESC. The genetic and epigenetic integrity of human Embryonic Stem cells (hESCs) is critical to their future applications in research and medicine. hESC cultured in serum free media can accumulate point mutations, aneuploidy and progressive epigenetic changes over prolonged culture in vitro. We have identified ascorbate as the only molecule in the very widely used Knock-out serum replacement medium that is sufficient to induce expression of CD30, a biomarker for aneuploidy in hESCs. In fact, we show that hESC cultured in the presence of ascorbate for 20 passages not only display demethylation of the CD30 locus, but exhibit widespread and remarkably specific and consiste

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Gabriel Kolle 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-16590 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress