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Pluripotency Factors Regulate Definitive Endoderm Specification through Eomesodermin

ABSTRACT: Understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling early cell fate decisions in mammals is a major objective towards the development of robust methods for the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into clinically relevant cell types. Here, we used human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to study specification of definitive endoderm in vitro. Using a combination of whole genome expression and ChIP-seq analyses, we established a hierarchy of transcription factors regulating endoderm specification. Importantly, pluripotency factors, namely NANOG, OCT4 and SOX2 have an essential function in this network by actively directing differentiation. Indeed, these transcription factors control the expression of EOMES, which marks the onset of endoderm specification. In turn, EOMES interacts with SMAD2/3 to initiate the transcriptional network governing endoderm formation. Together, these results provide for the first time a comprehensive molecular model connecting the transition from pluripotency to endoderm specification during mammalian development.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE26097 | GEO | 2011/01/25

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA135173

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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