Project description:Epigenetic reprogramming is a cancer hallmark but how it unfolds during early neoplastic events and its role in carcinogenesis and cancer progression is not fully understood. Here we show that resetting from primed to naïve human pluripotency results in acquisition of a DNA methylation landscape mirroring the cancer DNA methylome, with gradual hypermethylation of bivalent developmental genes. We hypothesised that unknown proteins and transcription factors play a role in the DNA hypermethylation process and analysed therefore the proteomics of the very early stages of the resetting process which involves overexpression of Nanog and Klf2. The samples analysed were Primed hESCs (Conventional stem cells), 72hours after induction and 1 week after induction, in triplicate. For our purposes we identified candidate transcription factors and subsequently knocked them down to test their involvement in the DNA hypermethylation (as described in the manuscript related to this data, Patani et al. Nature Communications). More broadly, we believe, this dataset is a useful resource for the wider community interested in pluripotency, resetting, reprogramming, cell identity transitions etc. Our results indicate that transition to naïve pluripotency and oncogenic transformation share common epigenetic trajectories, which implicates reprogramming and the pluripotency network as a central hub in cancer formation.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human mesenchymal stem cells comparing normoxic MSCs cells with hypoxic MSCs cells. Hypoxia may inhibit senescence of MSCs during expansion. Goal was to determine the effects of hypoxia on global MSCs gene expression.
Project description:Gene methylation profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells comparing HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs cells with human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)- and HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs. hTERT may increase gene methylation in MSCs. Goal was to determine the effects of different transfected genes on global gene methylation in MSCs.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs. One-condition experment, gene expression of 3A6
Project description:Bulk RNA-seq of H9 human embryonic stem cells undergoing conversion from primed to naive pluripotency using the chemical/epigenetic resetting method in tt2iL+Go-based media conditions. The dataset includes three wild-type clones (WT1-3) and two KLF17-null clones (KO1-2) generated through CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene editing. Samples were collected at day 0 (primed cells in mTeSR1 (StemCell Technologies)), then throughout resetting at day 2 (cells in cRM-1), day 8 (cells in cRM-2+XAV939, immediately prior to the first passage), naive passage 5 (p5), 7 (p7) and 10 (p10) (cells in tt2iL+Go).
