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Suppression of ERK signalling promotes pluripotent epiblast in the human blastocyst [RNA-seq I]

ABSTRACT: Studies in the mouse demonstrate the importance of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and extra-cellular receptor tyrosine kinase (ERK) in specification of the epiblast and hypoblast in the inner cell mass (ICM). We recently demonstrated cross-talk of ERK and PI3K activity downstream of FGF and insulin growth factor signaling. We therefore hypothesized that ERK may have a conserved role in human hypoblast versus epiblast specification. Here we determined that FGF signaling is sufficient to specify hypoblast in human blastocysts. We describe ERK signaling during the blastocyst stage and demonstrate that blocking ERK activity, by small-molecule inhibition, is necessary for hypoblast specification in human blastocysts, and leads to expansion of the epiblast cells functionally capable of giving rise to naïve pluripotent embryonic stem cells. Transcriptomic analysis further reveals that these epiblast cells downregulate insulin growth factor and FGF signaling, while maintaining molecular markers of the epiblast. Moreover, we generate human naïve pluripotent stem cells following ERK inhibition. Our functional studies provide mechanistic insight into human blastocyst formation. We propose a unified model in which segregation of the epiblast and hypoblast lineages occurs during maturation of the mammalian blastocyst in an FGF/ERK signal-dependent manner.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE239843 | GEO | 2025/06/11

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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