Project description:A Flag-tagged version of murine EPOP was expressed in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) at near to endogenous levels and purified using an anti-FLAG affinity matrix.
Project description:We found that the non-essential amino acid L-Proline (L-Pro) acts as a signaling molecule that promotes the conversion of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) into mesenchymal-like, spindle-shaped, highly motile, invasive pluripotent stem cells. This embryonic stem cell-to-mesenchymal-like transition (esMT) is accompanied by a genome-wide remodeling of the transcriptome We used microarrays to elucidate whether a diverse transcriptional program is the basis of the morphological and motility differences between ESCs and L- Proline treated ESCs (PiCs) Total RNA was extracted from Control (ESCs) and L-Proline treated mouse embryonic stem cells (PiCs) and hybridized on Affimetrix microarrays.
Project description:A Flag-tagged version of murine Elongin B was expressed in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) at near to endogenous levels and purified using an anti-FLAG affinity matrix.
Project description:Sin3a, a known master scaffold, provides unique contact surfaces for interaction with particular accessory proteins to repress the transcription of specific genes. Surprisingly, our results also suggest that Sin3a has a role in transcriptional activation. We compared gene expression differences between Sin3a knockdown and control ESCs with mouse gene expression microarrays and identified an approximately equal distribution of up- and down-regulated genes following Sin3a knockdown in mouse ESCs. We propose that Sin3a collaborates with Tet1 to demethylate adjacent genomic regions and, ultimately, facilitates actively transcribed gene expression in mouse ESCs.
Project description:TET1 maintains hypomethylation at bivalent promoters through its catalytic activity in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). However, whether and how TET1 exerts catalytic activity-independent functions in regulating bivalent genes is not well understood. Therefore, we mapped the TET1 interactome in mouse ESCs using a SILAC IP-MS proteomics approach.
Project description:We found that the non-essential amino acid L-Proline (L-Pro) acts as a signaling molecule that promotes the conversion of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) into mesenchymal-like, spindle-shaped, highly motile, invasive pluripotent stem cells. This embryonic stem cell-to-mesenchymal-like transition (esMT) is accompanied by a genome-wide remodeling of the transcriptome We used microarrays to elucidate whether a diverse transcriptional program is the basis of the morphological and motility differences between ESCs and L- Proline treated ESCs (PiCs)
Project description:We found that the non-essential amino acid L-proline (L-Pro) acts as a signaling molecule that promotes the conversion of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) into mesenchymal-like, spindle-shaped, highly motile, invasive pluripotent stem cells.This embryonic stem cell-to-mesenchymal-like transition (esMT) is accompanied by a genome-wide remodeling of the H3K9me3 and H3K36me3 histone marks. Examination of 2 different histone modifications in untreated ESCs and L-Pro treated ESCs
Project description:Embryonic stem cell (ESC) fate decisions are regulated by a complex molecular circuitry that requires tight and coordinated gene expression regulations at multiple levels from chromatin organization to mRNA processing. Recently, ribosome biogenesis and translation have emerged as key pathways that efficiently control stem cell homeostasis. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of these pathways remain largely unknown to date. Here, we analyzed the expression, in mouse ESCs, of over 300 genes involved in ribosome biogenesis and we identified RSL24D1 as the most differentially expressed between self-renewing and differentiated ESCs. RSL24D1 is highly expressed in multiple mouse pluripotent stem cell models and its expression profile is conserved in human ESCs. RSL24D1 is associated with nuclear pre-ribosomes and is required for the maturation and the synthesis of 60S subunits in mouse ESCs. Interestingly, RSL24D1 depletion significantly impairs global translation, particularly of key pluripotency factors, including POU5F1 and NANOG, as well as components of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). Consistently, RSL24D1 is required for mouse ESC self-renewal and proliferation. Taken together, we show that RSL24D1-dependant ribosome biogenesis is required to both sustain the expression of pluripotent transcriptional programs and silence developmental programs, which concertedly dictate ESC homeostasis.