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Transcription profiling of mouse embryonic stem cells in vitro - FunGenES: IMM-1: Neural Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells in vitro: a Road Map to Neurogenesis in the Embryo

ABSTRACT: This experiment is part of the FunGenES project (FunGenES - "Functional Genomics in Embryonic Stem Cells" partially funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union, http://www.fungenes.org). The experiment was conducted at the "Instituto de Medicina Molecular,Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa", Portugal. Goal of the experiment is the in vitro generation and characterisation of neurons from embryonic stem (ES) cells. This is a promising approach to produce cells suitable for neural tissue repair and cell-based replacement therapies of the nervous system. Available methods to promote ES cell differentiation towards neural lineages try to replicate, in different ways, the multistep process of embryonic neural development. However, to achieve this aim in an efficient and reproducible way, a better knowledge of the cellular and molecular events that are involved in the process, from the initial specification of neuroepithelial progenitors (NPs) to their terminal differentiation into neurons and glial cells, is required. In this work, we characterize the main stages and transitions that occur when ES cells are driven into a neural fate, using an adherent monolayer system [1]. We established improved conditions to routinely produce highly homogeneous cultures of NPs, which display morphological and functional characteristics of their embryonic counterparts, namely, apico-basal polarity, active Notch signalling, and proper timing of production of neurons and glia. We show that the transition to neuronal production is linked to the organization of NPs into neural tube-like rosettes, where these cells divide and give rise to neurons. In order to characterize the global gene activity correlated with each particular stage of neural differentiation, the full transcriptome of different cell populations that arise during the in vitro differentiation protocol was determined by microarray analysis. By using embryo-oriented criteria to cluster the differentially expressed genes, we define five synexpression groups that correlate with successive stages in the path from ES cells to neurons. This resulted in the identification of unique gene signatures for each cell stage, predicting in addition some of the molecular pathways associated with the transitions between these stages. Overall, our work confirms and extends the cellular and molecular parallels between monolayer ES cell neural differentiation and embryonic neural development, revealing novel aspects of the genetic network underlying the multistep process that leads from uncommitted cells to differentiated neurons.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Oliver Hummel

PROVIDER: E-TABM-717 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Neural differentiation of embryonic stem cells in vitro: a road map to neurogenesis in the embryo.

Abranches Elsa E Silva Margarida M Pradier Laurent L Schulz Herbert H Hummel Oliver O Henrique Domingos D Bekman Evguenia E

PloS one 20090721 7

<h4>Background</h4>The in vitro generation of neurons from embryonic stem (ES) cells is a promising approach to produce cells suitable for neural tissue repair and cell-based replacement therapies of the nervous system. Available methods to promote ES cell differentiation towards neural lineages attempt to replicate, in different ways, the multistep process of embryonic neural development. However, to achieve this aim in an efficient and reproducible way, a better knowledge of the cellular and m ...[more]

PMID: 19621087

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Transcription profiling of mouse embryonic stem cells in vitro - FunGenES: IMM-1: Neural Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells in vitro: a Road Map to Neurogenesis in the Embryo

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Neural differentiation of embryonic stem cells in vitro: a road map to neurogenesis in the embryo.

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