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Transcriptional landscape changes during human embryonic stem cell derivation

ABSTRACT: Currently, there is only minimal information elucidating the transcriptional changes occurring during the in vitro transition of the inner cell mass (ICM) towards the human embryonic stem cell (hESC) stage and the role played by the post inner cell mass intermediate (PICMI). In this study, we perform in-depth analysis of the transcriptional heterogeneity between these three stages of hESC derivation in order to correlate their downstream effects on pluripotency states and differentiation. We reveal that although PICMI is transcriptionally in close proximity to the hESC profile and distinct from ICM, it exhibits upregulation of primordial germ cell markers, dependence on LIF signaling, upregulation of naïve pluripotency-specific signaling networks and appears to be a switching point from naïve to primed pluripotency. This indicates similarities with mouse epiblast-like cells displaying a transient state of pluripotency, between naïve and primed pluripotent states. Overall, we highlight the need to gain insight into the molecular and transcriptional landscape during hESC derivation, which will further help in the derivation of human PGCs and naïve hESCs in vitro which remains inefficient.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE119378 | GEO | 2018/09/24

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:We have derived hESC from biopsied blastomeres of cleavage stage embryos under virtually the same conditions we used for the derivation of hESC lines from inner cell mass of blastocyst stage embryos. Blastomere-derived hESC lines exhibited all the standard characteristics of hESC including undifferentiated proliferation, genomic stability, expression of pluripotency markers and the ability to differentiate into the cells of all three germ layers both in vitro and in vivo. To examine whether hESC lines derived from two developmental stages of the embryo differ in gene expression, we have subjected three blastomere-derived hESC lines and two ICM-derived hESC lines grown under identical culture conditions to transcriptome analysis using gene expression arrays. Unlike previously reported comparisons of hESC lines which demonstrated, apart from core hESC-associated pluripotency signature, significant variations in gene expression profiles of different lines, our data show that hESC lines derived and grown under well-controlled defined culture conditions adopt nearly identical gene expression profiles. Moreover, blastomere-derived and ICM-derived hESC exhibited very similar transcriptional profiles independent of the developmental stage of the embryo from which they originated. Furthermore, this profile was evident in very early passages of the cells and did not appear to be affected by extensive passaging. These results suggest that during derivation process cells which give rise to hESC acquire virtually identical stable phenotype and are not affected by the developmental stage of the starting cell population. we investigated whether human stem cell lines derived from late totipotent blastomeres of the cleavage stage embryo develop a more “primitive” phenotype than ICM-derived lines by profiling their respective gene expression, molecular regulation and signaling pathways. In this study, we examined whether the inherent differences in the development stage of the starting embryonic cell population are maintained in the derived hESC lines by evaluating the stemness, differentiation capacity and gene expression profiles of blastomere- and ICM-derived hESC lines.

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Transcriptional landscape changes during human embryonic stem cell derivation

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