Distinct SoxB1 networks are required for naive and primed pluripotency
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Abstract
Deletion of Sox2 from mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) causes trophectodermal differentiation. While this can be prevented by enforced expression of the related SOXB1 proteins, SOX1 or SOX3, the roles of SOXB1 proteins in epiblast stem cell (EpiSC) pluripotency are unknown. Here we show that Sox2 can be deleted from EpiSCs with impunity. This is due to a shift in the balance of SoxB1 expression in EpiSCs, which have decreased Sox2 and increased Sox3 compared to ESCs. Consistent with functional redundancy, Sox3 can also be deleted from EpiSCs without eliminating self-renewal. However, deletion of both Sox2 and Sox3 prevents self-renewal. The overall SOXB1 levels in ESCs affect differentiation choices: neural differentiation of Sox2 heterozygous ESCs is compromised, while increased SOXB1 levels divert the ESC to EpiSC transition towards neural differentiation. Therefore, optimal SOXB1 levels are critical for each pluripotent state and for cell fate decisions during exit from naïve pluripotency.
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Distinct SoxB1 networks are required for naïve and primed pluripotencyPublicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE99185).
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Florian Halbritter
Funding
Medical Research Council
- Andrea Corsinotti
- Frederick CK Wong
- Florian Halbritter
- Douglas Colby
- Nicholas P Mullin
- Valerie Wilson
- Ian Chambers
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Elisa Hall-Ponsele
- Ian Chambers
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: Animal experiments were performed under the UK Home Office project license PPL60/4435, approved by the Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Panel of the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine and within the conditions of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
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© 2017, Corsinotti et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Distinct SoxB1 networks are required for naive and primed pluripotency
eLife 6:e27746.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.27746
