Enforcement of developmental lineage specificity by transcription factor Oct1

  1. Zuolian Shen
  2. Jinsuk Kang
  3. Arvind Shakya
  4. Marcin Tabaka
  5. Elke A Jarboe
  6. Aviv Regev
  7. Dean Tantin  Is a corresponding author
  1. Celgene Corporation, United States
  2. The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States
  3. University of Utah School of Medicine, United States

Abstract

Embryonic stem cells co-express Oct4 and Oct1, a related protein with similar DNA binding specificity. To study the role of Oct1 in ESC pluripotency and transcriptional control, we constructed germline and inducible-conditional Oct1 deficient ESC lines. ESCs lacking Oct1 show normal appearance, self-renewal and growth, but manifest defects upon differentiation. They fail to form beating cardiomyocytes, generate neurons poorly, form small, poorly differentiated teratomas, and cannot generate chimeric mice. Upon RA-mediated differentiation, Oct1 deficient cells induce lineage-appropriate developmentally poised genes poorly while lineage-inappropriate genes, including extra-embryonic genes, are inappropriately expressed. In ESCs Oct1 co-occupies a specific set of targets with Oct4, but does not occupy differentially expressed developmental targets. Instead, Oct1 occupies these targets as cells differentiate and Oct4 declines. These results identify a dynamic interplay between Oct1 and Oct4, in particular during the critical window immediately after loss of pluripotency when cells make the earliest developmental fate decisions.

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  1. Zuolian Shen

    Celgene Corporation, San Diego, United States
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  2. Jinsuk Kang

    Celgene Corporation, San Diego, United States
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  3. Arvind Shakya

    Celgene Corporation, San Diego, United States
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  4. Marcin Tabaka

    The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
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  5. Elke A Jarboe

    Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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  6. Aviv Regev

    The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
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    Aviv Regev, Senior editor, eLife.
  7. Dean Tantin

    Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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    dean.tantin@path.utah.edu
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI100873)

  • Dean Tantin

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols (#14-06015) of the University of Utah. Every effort was made to minimize suffering.

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© 2017, Shen et al.

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  1. Zuolian Shen
  2. Jinsuk Kang
  3. Arvind Shakya
  4. Marcin Tabaka
  5. Elke A Jarboe
  6. Aviv Regev
  7. Dean Tantin
(2017)
Enforcement of developmental lineage specificity by transcription factor Oct1
eLife 6:e20937.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20937

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