Using wild-type and Rps5 heterozygous embryonic stem cells, we isolated RNA from polyribosomal fractions in order to get insights into transcriptional and translational defects of such deletion. Overall design: Input, monosomes and polysomes extracted RNA samples from wild-type and Rps5 heterozygous clones (undifferentiated and differentiated, total number of samples = 12), were subjected to sequencing.
Haploinsufficiency screen highlights two distinct groups of ribosomal protein genes essential for embryonic stem cell fate.
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View SamplesKey regulators of septum formation between the left and right ventricle in mammals, including the transcription factors TXB5 and PITX2, feature loss-of-function phenotypes that affect development of the two-chambered zebrafish heart, suggesting
Generating and evaluating a ranked candidate gene list for potential vertebrate heart field regulators.
Specimen part
View SamplesCultured pluripotent stem cells are a cornerstone of regenerative medicine due to their ability to give rise to all cell types of the body. While pluripotent stem cells can be propagated indefinitely in vitro, pluripotency is paradoxically a very transient state in vivo, lasting 2-3 days around the time of blastocyst implantation. The exception to this rule is embryonic diapause, a reversible state of suspended development triggered by unfavorable conditions. Diapause is a strategy widely employed across the animal kingdom, including in mammals, but its regulation remains poorly understood. Here we report that inhibition of mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTor), a major nutrient sensor and promoter of growth, induces reversible pausing of mouse blastocyst development and allows their prolonged culture ex vivo. Paused blastocysts remain pluripotent and competent to give rise to embryonic stem (ES) cells and mice. We show that both natural diapause blastocysts in vivo and paused blastocysts ex vivo display pronounced reductions in mTor activity, translation and transcription. In addition, pausing can be induced directly in cultured ES cells and sustained for weeks in the absence of cell death or deviations from cell cycle distributions. We show that paused ES cells remain pluripotent, display a remarkable global suppression of transcription, and maintain a gene expression signature of diapaused blastocysts. These results allow for the first time the sustained suspension of development of a mammalian embryo in the laboratory, and shed light on the regulation of diapause and the origins of ES cells. Our findings have important implications in the fields of assisted reproduction, regenerative medicine, cancer, metabolic disorders and aging. Overall design: Examination of RNA expression profiles of embryonic stem cells in serum, 2i and paused states by RNA-seq
Inhibition of mTOR induces a paused pluripotent state.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Subject
View SamplesCell purification technology combined with whole transcriptome sequencing and small molecule agonist of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal has allowed us to identify the endothelial protein c receptor protein (EPCR) as a surface maker that defines a rare subpopulation of human cells which is highly enriched for stem cell activity in vivo. EPCR-positive cells exhibit a robust multi-lineage differentiation potential and serial reconstitution in immunocompromised mice. In culture, most if not all of the HSC activity is detected in the EPCR+ subset, arguing for the stability of this marker on the surface of cultured cells, a feature not found with more recently described markers such as CD49f. Functionally EPCR is essential for human HSC activity in vivo. Cells engineered to express low EPCR expression proliferate normally in culture but lack the ability to confer long-term reconstitution. EPCR is thus a stable marker for human HSC. Its exploitation should open new possibilities in our effort to understand the molecular bases behind HSC self-renewal. Overall design: Examining 3 cellular subsets: EPCR+, EPCRlow, EPCR- derived form CD34+CD45RA- cord blood cells after 7 day expansion in UM171
EPCR expression marks UM171-expanded CD34<sup>+</sup> cord blood stem cells.
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View SamplesRNASeq data for mPB or CB-derived CD34+ exposed to UM171 Overall design: human mobilized peripheral blood or cord blood-derived CD34(+) cells were cultured for 16 hours with vehicle (DMSO), dose response of UM171 [11.9nM, 19nM, 30.5nM, 48.8nM, 78.1nM and 125nM], SR1 [500nM] and combination of( UM171 [48.8nM]+SR1 [500nM])
UM171 induces a homeostatic inflammatory-detoxification response supporting human HSC self-renewal.
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Glucocorticoids enhance muscle endurance and ameliorate Duchenne muscular dystrophy through a defined metabolic program.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesExcessive or sustained glucocorticoid (GC) exposure causes muscle wasting. Paradoxically, moderate or transient GC exposure elicits ergogenic effects, evidenced by their widespread use as doping agents by endurance athletes and poorly understood efficacy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a genetic muscle wasting disease. While mechanisms underlying GC-mediated muscle wasting are well defined, the molecular basis for the latter remains unknown. In this arm of our studies, we compare expression profiles in quadriceps tissue from KLF15 transgenic (MTg) and non-Tg mice.
Glucocorticoids enhance muscle endurance and ameliorate Duchenne muscular dystrophy through a defined metabolic program.
Specimen part
View SamplesWe report global RNA expression profiles from whole zebrafish hearts 24 hours after ventricle amputation. Zebrafish were exposed to atropine or water following surgery.
Nerves Regulate Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Heart Regeneration.
Specimen part, Treatment
View Samplesdrl expression initiates during gastrulation and condenses as a band of cells at the prospective lateral embryo margin. In late epiboly, drl:EGFP is detectable as a band of scattered EGFP-fluorescent cells; after gastrulation, drl:EGFP-positive cells coalesce at the embryo margin that then in somitogenesis break down into the anterior and posterior lateral plate with subsequent cell migrations that form the posterior vascular/hematopoietic stripes and the anterior cardiovascular and myeloid precursors.
Chamber identity programs drive early functional partitioning of the heart.
Age, Specimen part
View SamplesCD34 positive hematopoietic stem cells were differentiated into erythroid lineage. Next generation sequencing (NGS) of 5hmC affinity pulldown and RNAseq were performed in four time point of different stages of erythroid differentiation. Overall design: 4 RNA-Seq Samples (d0, d3, d7 and d10); 4 affinity-pulldown (d0, d3, d7 and d10), and 4 input samples (d0, d3, d7 and d10).
Hydroxymethylation at gene regulatory regions directs stem/early progenitor cell commitment during erythropoiesis.
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