Genomic Integrity Safeguards Self-Renewal in Embryonic Stem Cells.
Cell Rep
; 28(6): 1400-1409.e4, 2019 08 06.
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| ID: mdl-31390555
ABSTRACT
A multitude of signals are coordinated to maintain self-renewal in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). To unravel the essential internal and external signals required for sustaining the ESC state, we expand upon a set of ESC pluripotency-associated phosphoregulators (PRs) identified previously by short hairpin RNA (shRNA) screening. In addition to the previously described Aurka, we identify 4 additional PRs (Bub1b, Chek1, Ppm1g, and Ppp2r1b) whose depletion compromises self-renewal and leads to consequent differentiation. Global gene expression profiling and computational analyses reveal that knockdown of the 5 PRs leads to DNA damage/genome instability, activating p53 and culminating in ESC differentiation. Similarly, depletion of genome integrity-associated genes involved in DNA replication and checkpoint, mRNA processing, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease lead to compromise of ESC self-renewal via an increase in p53 activity. Our studies demonstrate an essential link between genomic integrity and developmental cell fate regulation in ESCs.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cell Differentiation
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Genomic Instability
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Embryonic Stem Cells
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Animals
Language:
En
Year:
2019
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Article