Compare miRNA expression profiles of human iNSC, H9-NSC, fibroblast
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ABSTRACT: miRNA profiling of human H9-derived neural stem cells (H9-NSCs) comparing control human adult dermal fibroblasts (hDFs), SOX2-transduced human induced neural stem cells (hDF-iNSC (SOX2)), SOX2/HMGA2-transduced human induced neural stem cells (hDF-iNSC (SOX2/HMGA2)). Goal was to determine the global miRNA expression between the groups. H9-NSC vs hDF vs hDF-iNSC(SOX2) vs hDF-iNSC(SOX2/HMGA2)
Project description:miRNA profiling of human H9-derived neural stem cells (H9-NSCs) comparing control human adult dermal fibroblasts (hDFs), SOX2-transduced human induced neural stem cells (hDF-iNSC (SOX2)), SOX2/HMGA2-transduced human induced neural stem cells (hDF-iNSC (SOX2/HMGA2)). Goal was to determine the global miRNA expression between the groups.
Project description:Advances in molecular strategies to reprogram cell fate is a promising avenue for cell-based therapies. Methods to generate induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) are often slow with limited reprogramming events and it is unclear whether cells transit via a pluripotent state. We report an iNSC reprogramming approach from embryonic and aged mouse fibroblasts using an engineered Sox17 (eSox17FNV). eSox17FNV efficiently drives iNSC reprogramming while Sox2 or Sox17 fails to do so. eSox17FNV acquires the capacity to bind new protein partners to scan the genome more efficiently and possesses a more potent transactivation domain than Sox2. At the onset of reprogramming, in the presence of eSox17FNV, fibroblasts divert from a iPSC route towards iNSC fate. Further, lineage tracing shows that emerging iNSCs do not transit through a pluripotent state if POU factors are excluded. This reveals new molecular and physiological framework for iNSC generation and contrasts with lineage from pluripotency reprogramming.
Project description:Advances in molecular strategies to reprogram cell fate is a promising avenue for cell-based therapies. Methods to generate induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) are often slow with limited reprogramming events and it is unclear whether cells transit via a pluripotent state. We report an iNSC reprogramming approach from embryonic and aged mouse fibroblasts using an engineered Sox17 (eSox17FNV). eSox17FNV efficiently drives iNSC reprogramming while Sox2 or Sox17 fails to do so. eSox17FNV acquires the capacity to bind new protein partners to scan the genome more efficiently and possesses a more potent transactivation domain than Sox2. At the onset of reprogramming, in the presence of eSox17FNV, fibroblasts divert from a iPSC route towards iNSC fate. Further, lineage tracing shows that emerging iNSCs do not transit through a pluripotent state if POU factors are excluded. This reveals new molecular and physiological framework for iNSC generation and contrasts with lineage from pluripotency reprogramming.
Project description:Advances in molecular strategies to reprogram cell fate is a promising avenue for cell-based therapies. Methods to generate induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) are often slow with limited reprogramming events and it is unclear whether cells transit via a pluripotent state. We report an iNSC reprogramming approach from embryonic and aged mouse fibroblasts using an engineered Sox17 (eSox17FNV). eSox17FNV efficiently drives iNSC reprogramming while Sox2 or Sox17 fails to do so. eSox17FNV acquires the capacity to bind new protein partners to scan the genome more efficiently and possesses a more potent transactivation domain than Sox2. At the onset of reprogramming, in the presence of eSox17FNV, fibroblasts divert from a iPSC route towards iNSC fate. Further, lineage tracing shows that emerging iNSCs do not transit through a pluripotent state if POU factors are excluded. This reveals new molecular and physiological framework for iNSC generation and contrasts with lineage from pluripotency reprogramming.
Project description:Advances in molecular strategies to reprogram cell fate is a promising avenue for cell-based therapies. Methods to generate induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) are often slow with limited reprogramming events and it is unclear whether cells transit via a pluripotent state. We report an iNSC reprogramming approach from embryonic and aged mouse fibroblasts using an engineered Sox17 (eSox17FNV). eSox17FNV efficiently drives iNSC reprogramming while Sox2 or Sox17 fails to do so. eSox17FNV acquires the capacity to bind new protein partners to scan the genome more efficiently and possesses a more potent transactivation domain than Sox2. At the onset of reprogramming, in the presence of eSox17FNV, fibroblasts divert from a iPSC route towards iNSC fate. Further, lineage tracing shows that emerging iNSCs do not transit through a pluripotent state if POU factors are excluded. This reveals new molecular and physiological framework for iNSC generation and contrasts with lineage from pluripotency reprogramming.
Project description:Advances in molecular strategies to reprogram cell fate is a promising avenue for cell-based therapies. Methods to generate induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) are often slow with limited reprogramming events and it is unclear whether cells transit via a pluripotent state. We report an iNSC reprogramming approach from embryonic and aged mouse fibroblasts using an engineered Sox17 (eSox17FNV). eSox17FNV efficiently drives iNSC reprogramming while Sox2 or Sox17 fails to do so. eSox17FNV acquires the capacity to bind new protein partners to scan the genome more efficiently and possesses a more potent transactivation domain than Sox2. At the onset of reprogramming, in the presence of eSox17FNV, fibroblasts divert from a iPSC route towards iNSC fate. Further, lineage tracing shows that emerging iNSCs do not transit through a pluripotent state if POU factors are excluded. This reveals new molecular and physiological framework for iNSC generation and contrasts with lineage from pluripotency reprogramming.
Project description:Advances in molecular strategies to reprogram cell fate is a promising avenue for cell-based therapies. Methods to generate induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) are often slow with limited reprogramming events and it is unclear whether cells transit via a pluripotent state. We report an iNSC reprogramming approach from embryonic and aged mouse fibroblasts using an engineered Sox17 (eSox17FNV). eSox17FNV efficiently drives iNSC reprogramming while Sox2 or Sox17 fails to do so. eSox17FNV acquires the capacity to bind new protein partners to scan the genome more efficiently and possesses a more potent transactivation domain than Sox2. At the onset of reprogramming, in the presence of eSox17FNV, fibroblasts divert from a iPSC route towards iNSC fate. Further, lineage tracing shows that emerging iNSCs do not transit through a pluripotent state if POU factors are excluded. This reveals new molecular and physiological framework for iNSC generation and contrasts with lineage from pluripotency reprogramming.
Project description:Recent advances in the stem cell biology have revealed that cell type-specific transcription factors could reset the somatic memory and induce direct reprogramming into specific cellular identities. The induction of pluripotency in terminally differentiated cells has been a major achievement in the field of direct reprogramming. Recent studies have shown that fibroblasts could be directly converted into specific cell types, such as neurons, cardiomyocytes, blood progenitor cells, and epiblast stem cells, without first passing through an induced pluripotent stem cell state3-7. However, direct reprogramming of differentiated cells into somatic stem cell types has not been described yet4. Here we show that a combination of neural-specific transcription factors (Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc, Brn4/Pou3f4 or Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc, Brn4, E47/Tcf3) can induce a neural stem cell (NSC) fate on the fibroblasts. Induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) showed morphology, gene expression, epigenetic features, differentiation potential, and functionality similar to wild-type NSCs. Therefore, our data suggest that cell type-specific defined factors can induce specific stem cell identities on somatic cells. Fibroblasts (5 x 104 cells) were infected with retroviruses for two days, and cells were maintained in NSC media: DMEM/F-12 supplemented with N2 or B27 supplements (Gibco-BRL), 10 ng/ml EGF, 10 ng/ml bFGF (both from Invitrogen), 50 ug/ml BSA (Fraction V Gibco-BRL), and 1x penicillin/streptomycin/glutamine (Gibco-BRL). In order to establish stable iNSC lines, were either manually picked mature iNSC clumps or passaged and seeded the whole dishes of cells onto either gelatin- or laminin-coated dishes. RNA samples to be analysed on microarrays were prepared using QIAGEN RNeasy columns with on-column DNA digestion. 500 ng of total RNA per sample was used as input RNA into a linear amplification protocol (Ambion) involving synthesis of T7-linked double-stranded cDNA and 12 h of in-vitro transcription incorporating biotin-labelled nucleotides. Purified and labelled cRNA was hybridised onto MouseRef-8 v2 expression BeadChips (Illumina) for 18 h according to the manufacturer's instructions. After washing, as recommended, chips were stained with streptavidin-Cy3 (GE Healthcare) and scanned using iScan reader (Illumina) and accompanying software. Samples were hybridised as biological replicates. 9 samples were analyzed. Fibroblast: CF1 Mouse embryonic fibroblasts, 1 biological rep Control NSC: OG2-Rosa Neural Stem Cells, 2 biological rep 4F iNSC (late): 4 factors induced Neural Stem Cells (late passage), 2 biological rep 4F iNSC (early): 4 factors induced Neural Stem Cells (early passage), 2 biological rep 5F iNSC: 5 factors induced Neural Stem Cells, 2 biological rep
Project description:Brief expression of pluripotency-associated factors such as OCT4, KLF4, SOX2 and c-MYC (OKSM), in combination with differentiation-inducing signals, was reported to trigger transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into alternative cell types. Here, we show that OKSM expression gives rise to both induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iNSCs under conditions that were previously shown to induce only NSC transdifferentiation. Fibroblast-derived iNSC colonies silenced retroviral transgenes and reactivated silenced X chromosomes, both hallmarks of pluripotent stem cells. Moreover, lineage tracing via an Oct4-CreER labeling system demonstrated that virtually all iNSC colonies originate from cells transiently expressing Oct4, whereas ablation of Oct4-positive cells prevented iNSC formation. Lastly, use of an alternative transdifferentiation cocktail that lacks OCT4 and was reportedly unable to support induced pluripotency, yielded iPSCs and iNSCs carrying the Oct4-CreER-derived lineage label. Together, these data suggest that iNSC generation using OKSM and related reprogramming factors requires passage through a transient iPSC state. 5 samples were anlyzed in total, 2 induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), 1 neural stem cells (NSCs) and 2 induced NSCs (iNSCs)
Project description:The iNSC cells are two clones generated from the same MEF line. Therefore, we conducted one analysis that compared the two clonal lines and a separate analysis that compared iNSC vs. NSC, iNSC vs. MEF, and NSC vs. MEF. Both were single factor ANOVAs, the first compared two groups (the iNSC lines) and the second had three groups. For the second analysis, we then used linear contrasts to extract the information about differences between all pairs (e.g. iNSC vs. NSC). Looking at the iNSC lines, the correlations between samples from different clonal lines are as high as the correlations between samples from within a clonal line. Given this, we think that the analysis that combines all 6 of them to compare against the other cell types is appropriate.