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Transcription profiling by array of human neuroectoderm or embryonic stem cells after Pax6 knockdown

ABSTRACT: Stable Pax6 and Luciferase knockdown human embryonic stem cell lines (H9) were made through lentiviral infection. Two different Pax6 RNAi lines and two Luciferase RNAi lines were then differentiated to neuroectoderm cells for 6 days. mRNA pooled from these two individual lines were then subjected to gene expression profiling analysis using affymetrix U133 plus 2.0 array.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Su-Chun Zhang

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-2668 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Exposure to lead (Pb) during childhood can result in learning disabilities and behavioral problems. Although described in animal models, whether Pb exposure also alters neuronal differentiation in the developing brains of exposed children is unknown. Here, we investigated the effects of physiologically relevant concentrations of Pb (from 0.4 to 1.9 M-BM-5M or 0 to 40M-BM-5g/dl) on the capacity of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to progress to a neuronal fate. We found that neither acute nor chronic exposure to Pb prevented hESCs from generating neural precursor cells (NPCs). NPCs derived from hESCs chronically exposed to 1.9 M-BM-5M or 40M-BM-5g/dl Pb throughout the neural differentiation process generated 2.5 times more TUJ1-positive neurons than those derived from control hESCs. Pb exposure of hESCs during the stage of neural rosette formation resulted in a significant decrease in the expression levels of the neural marker genes PAX6 and MSI1. Furthermore, the resulting NPCs differentiated into neurons with shorter neurites and less branching than control neurons, as assessed by Sholl analysis. DNA methylation studies of control, acutely treated hESCs and NPCs derived from chronically exposed hESCs using the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChipM-BM-. demonstrated that Pb exposure induced changes in the methylation status of genes involved in neurogenetic signaling pathways. In summary, our study shows that exposure to Pb subtly alters the neuronal differentiation of exposed hESCs and that these changes could be partly mediated by modifications in the DNA methylation status of genes crucial to brain development. We analyzed the methylation profile of undifferentiated (n=2 independent experiments) and differentiating (n=2 independent experiments) human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) acutely exposed to losed to lead (Pb) and neural precursor cells derived from hESCs chronically exposed to Pb throughout the neural differentiation process (n=3 independent experiments).

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Transcription profiling by array of human neuroectoderm or embryonic stem cells after Pax6 knockdown

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