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Differential roles of Sall4 isoforms in ES cell pluripotency

ABSTRACT: This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE21054: Differential roles of Sall4 isoforms in ES cell pluripotency: expression GSE21055: Differential Role of Sall4 isoforms in ES cell pluripotency: ChIP-chip Refer to individual Series

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Sridhar Rao

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21056 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Differential roles of Sall4 isoforms in embryonic stem cell pluripotency.

Rao Sridhar S Zhen Shao S Roumiantsev Sergei S McDonald Lindsay T LT Yuan Guo-Cheng GC Orkin Stuart H SH

Molecular and cellular biology 20100913 22

Murine embryonic stem (ES) cells are defined by continuous self-renewal and pluripotency. A diverse repertoire of protein isoforms arising from alternative splicing is expressed in ES cells without defined biological roles. Sall4, a transcription factor essential for pluripotency, exists as two isoforms (Sall4a and Sall4b). Both isoforms can form homodimers and a heterodimer with each other, and each can interact with Nanog. By genomewide location analysis, we determined that Sall4a and Sall4b h ...[more]

PMID: 20837710

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Project description:Embryonic stem cells have potential utility in regenerative medicine due to their pluripotent characteristics. Sall4, a zinc-finger transcription factor, is expressed very early in embryonic development with Oct4 and Nanog, two well characterized pluripotency regulators. Sall4 plays an important role in governing the fate of stem cells through transcriptional regulation of both Oct4 and Nanog. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to microarray hybridization (ChIP on Chip), we have mapped global gene targets of Sall4 unveiling possible regulation of broad ES cell functions. Approximately 5,000 genes were identified that were bound by the Sall4 protein and many of these have major functions in developmental and regulatory pathways. Sall4 bound more than six times as many annotated genes within promoter regions as Oct4 and twice as many as Nanog. Immunoprecipitation revealed a heterotrimeric protein complex between Sall4, Oct4, and Nanog, consistent with binding site co-occupancies. Further, Sall4 bound many genes that are regulated in part by the chromatin-based epigenetic events mediated by polycomb-repressive complexes and bivalent domains. This suggests that Sall4 plays a central and diverse role in regulating stem cell pluripotency during early embryonic development that involves integration of transcriptional and epigenetic control processes. Keywords: ChIP-chip We used ChIP-chip to map global promoter bound by Sall4, a zinc finger transcription factor. Growing evidence has suggested that Sall4 plays a vital role in ES cell pluripotency maintenance. Evidence for this includes its recent use as a marker for somatic cell reprogramming, in a genetic signature for ES cells, and evidence that Sall4 enhances reprogramming. These recent findings and two previously described interactions with Oct4 and Nanog strongly support the role of Sall4 in ES cells. This hypothesis was furthered here as we show that Sall4 plays important roles through transcriptional regulation of vital ES cell genes.

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Differential roles of Sall4 isoforms in ES cell pluripotency

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Differential roles of Sall4 isoforms in embryonic stem cell pluripotency.

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