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LIF-Dependent, Pluripotent Stem Cells Established from Inner Cell Mass of Porcine Embryos

ABSTRACT: The pig is important for agriculture and as an animal model in human and veterinary medicine, yet, despite over 20 years of effort, it has proved a difficult species from which to generate pluripotent stem cells analogous to those derived from mouse embryos. Here we report the production of LIF-dependent, so called naïve type, pluripotent stem cells from the inner cell mass of porcine blastocysts by up-regulating expression of KLF4 and POU5F1. These cells resemble mouse ES cells and are distinct from the FGF2-dependent, induced pluripotent cell type derived from porcine somatic cells. Transcript profiling utilized Affymetrix porcine microarrays were conducted to compare the gene expressions associated with pluripotency in the two LIF-dependent pESK lines (pESK I & II, passage 14 & 5, respectively) with a naïve phenotype and two porcine iPSC lines (ID4 & ID6, both passage 7, GSE15472) with a primed phenotype that re-programming of porcine fetal fibroblasts (EGFP-PFF, GSE15472). The pESK lines clustered separately from the porcine iPSC lines, EGFP-PFF and primary cultures established from explants of porine umbilical cord (PUC).

ORGANISM(S): Sus scrofa

PROVIDER: GSE26369 | GEO | 2011/12/02

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA136893

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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