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An engineered Sox17 induces somatic to neural stem cell fate transition independently from pluripotency reprogramming [RNA-seq]

ABSTRACT: 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.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE195551 | GEO | 2023/07/19

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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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

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