Regulation of the protein stability and transcriptional activity of OCT4 in stem cells.
Adv Biol Regul
; 79: 100777, 2021 01.
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OCT4 (also known as Oct3 and Oct3/4), which is encoded by Pou5f1, is expressed in early embryonic cells and plays an important role in early development, pluripotency maintenance, and self-renewal of embryonic stem cells. It also regulates the reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells. Several OCT4-binding proteins, including SOX2 and NANOG, reportedly regulate gene transcription in stem cells. An increasing number of evidence suggests that not only gene transcription but also post-translational modifications of OCT4 play a pivotal role in regulating the expression and activity of OCT4. For instance, ubiquitination and sumoylation have been reported to regulate OCT4 protein stability. In addition, the phosphorylation of Ser347 in OCT4 also stabilizes the OCT4 protein level. Recently, we identified KAP1 as an OCT4-binding protein and reported the KAP1-mediated regulation of OCT4 protein stability. KAP1 overexpression led to an increased proliferation of mouse embryonic stem cells and promoted the reprogramming of somatic cells resulting in induced pluripotent stem cells. In this review, we discuss how the protein stability and function of OCT4 are regulated by protein-protein interaction in stem cells.
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Factor 3 de Transcripción de Unión a Octámeros
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Células Madre Embrionarias
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Células Madre Pluripotentes Inducidas
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Animals
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Humans
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En
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Adv Biol Regul
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2021
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Article