(A) Immunofluorescence images (top) and quantification of fluorescence intensity (bottom) for BMP4 downstream effector pSMAD1 relative to the DAPI fluorescence marking nuclei (N = 4 experiments; n = …
(A) Schematic of protocol for fabricating PDMS (poly-dimethylsiloxane) stamp used in microcontact printing. (B) An image of a typical stamp used in microcontact printing with a ruler and one-inch …
Scale bar is 100 µm.
(A) Schematic showing scRNA-seq workflow for gastruloids from two biological replicates. (B) UMAP display of seven cell clusters detected by unsupervised clustering in gastruloids replicate 1 …
(A) Bar plot indicating relative proportion of cells in each cluster of replicates 1 and 2. (B) Heatmap showing correlation of average expression of 23,271 total genes between scRNA-seq clusters …
(A, B) UMAP displaying overlap of cells in gastruloids and mouse (A), and monkey (B) at indicated gastrulation stages. (C, D) Bar plots showing composition of predicted mouse (C) and monkey (D) cell …
(A, B) Bar plots showing cellular composition of mouse (A) and cynomolgus monkey (B) embryos at indicated stages, and gastruloids with predicted cell types (each color bar represents a cell type).
(A, B) Dot plots showing predicted mouse (A) and cynomolgus monkey (B) cell types and stages in each cluster of gastruloid replicate 1 and replicate 2.
(A) Violin plot showing predicted score of mouse development stages in 16 dpf cynomolgus monkey cells (**** indicates p<0.0001, using one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test; dash lines …
(Based on 492 shared highly variable genes between gastruloids and cynomolgus monkey dataset from Nakamura et al., 2016).
(A) Average expression correlation of 434 shared highly variable genes between the gastruloid EPI-like cluster and epiblast-related cell types from in vitro cultured human embryos. (B) UMAP …
(A) 3D plot showing gastruloid clusters in the first three diffusion coordinates (arrow lines indicate plausible differentiation trajectories). (B) Chart illustrating proportion of cells from all …
(A) Violin plot showing expression of indicated mesoderm markers in the gastruloid Mesoderm-1 and -2 clusters (**** indicates p<0.0001 using Mann-Whitney test). (B) Violin plot showing expression of …
(N = 2, 5, 6, 1, five experiments; n = 63, 84, 71, 21, 63 gastruloids, respectively for SOX2, T, SOX17, GATA3, CDH2; fluorescence intensity of each marker is normalized against that of DAPI for each …
(A) Violin plot showing expression of PGC markers NANOS3 and TFAP2C in gastruloid clusters (**** indicates p<0.0001; one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test; dash lines indicate 1st, …
(A) Heatmap showing the expression of monkey early PGC signature in the gastruloid hPGCLC cluster. (B) Additional replicates of immunofluorescence images showing indicated markers (arrows indicate …
(A, B) Immunofluorescence images of TE makers GATA3 and CDX2 (A), and amnion marker TFAP2A (B) in gastruloids. (C) UMAP showing expression of TE markers GATA3, CDX2, KRT7, and amnion markers TFAP2A, …
(A) Schema of protocol for assaying cell sorting behaviors from dissociated gastruloids. (B, C, D) Immunofluorescence images of indicated markers in reseeded gastruloid cells at indicated timepoints …
(A) Still time-lapse images of dissociated gastruloid cells reseeded in micropattern after 3, 10, 17, and 24 hr (arrow indicates motile cells, arrowhead indicates non-motile cells, dotted line …
(A) Gene Ontology analysis of downregulated and upregulated genes between reseeded cultures and gastruloids. (B) Heatmap illustrating gene expression correlation of 2000 shared highly variable genes …
(A, B) Immunofluorescence images of indicated markers in 48 hr post-reseed cultures. (C) Cosine similarity analysis of expression domains between pairs of indicated markers (*, **, ***, **** …
(A) Additional replicates of immunofluorescence staining showing indicated markers of dissociated and reseeded gastruloid cells after 48 hr (note mixing between SOX2+ and T+ cells, but segregation …
(A, B) Cosine value depicting overlap between expression domains of pairs of indicated markers at indicated timepoints and cell densities (*, **, ***, **** indicates p<0.05, 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, …
(A) UMAP display of reseeded culture from dissociated gastruloids showing combined clusters with strong expression of SOX2 (EPI-like and Ectoderm clusters into reEcto), T (Mesoderm-1 and -2 clusters …
(A) Dot plot showing predicted Ephrin-Eph interactions between indicated pairs of cell clusters. Arrows in x-axis labels indicate direction of signaling (signaling to receiving cluster). In each …
(A) Immunofluorescence and scRNA-seq analyses identify seven major cell types relevant during primate gastrulation. (B) Gastruloids dissociated into single cells and reseeded onto micropatterns show …
Time-lapse confocal series from 3 to 27 hr after reseeding of dissociated gastruloid cells in 500 µm ECM microdiscs.
Reagent type (species) or resource | Designation | Source or reference | Identifiers | Additional information |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cell line (Human) | WA01 (H1) human embryonic stem cell | WiCell | RRID:CVCL_9771, hPSCReg ID: WAe001-A | |
Cell line (Human) | WA09 (H9) human embryonic stem cell | WiCell | RRID:CVCL_9773, hPSCReg ID: WAe009-A | |
Antibody | anti-SOX2 (Mouse monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 4900, RRID:AB_10560516 | (1:200) |
Antibody | anti-SOX2 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 3579, RRID:AB_2195767 | (1:200) |
Antibody | anti-SOX1 (Goat polyclonal) | R and D Systems | Cat# AF3369, RRID:AB_2239879 | (10 μg/mL) |
Antibody | anti-T (Goat polyclonal) | R and D Systems | Cat# AF2085, RRID:AB_2200235 | (2 μg/mL) |
Antibody | anti-SOX17 (Goat polyclonal) | R and D Systems | Cat# AF1924, RRID:AB_355060 | (1 μg/mL) |
Antibody | anti-CDX2 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 12306, RRID:AB_2797879 | (1:100) |
Antibody | anti-pSMAD1 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 9516, RRID:AB_491015 | (1:200) |
Antibody | anti-CDH1 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 3195, RRID:AB_2291471 | (1:400) |
Antibody | anti-CDH2 (Mouse monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 14215, RRID:AB_2798427 | (1:800) |
antibody | anti-GATA3 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 5852, RRID:AB_10835690 | (1:1600) |
Antibody | anti-GATA3 (Mouse monoclonal) | R and D Systems | Cat# MAB6330, RRID:AB_10640512 | (1:500) |
Antibody | anti-GATA6 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 5851, RRID:AB_10705521 | (1:1600) |
Antibody | anti-FOXA2 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 8186, RRID:AB_10891055 | (1:800) |
Antibody | anti-OCT3/4(POU5F1) (Mouse monoclonal) | Santa Cruz Biotechnology | Cat# sc-5279, RRID:AB_628051 | (1:200) |
Antibody | anti-ZO-1 (Mouse monoclonal) | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Cat# 33–9100, RRID:AB_2533147 | (1:500) |
Antibody | anti-KRT7 (Rabbit monoclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 4465, RRID:AB_11178382 | (1:200) |
Antibody | anti-AP-2α (Rabbit monoclonal) | Santa Cruz Biotechnology | Cat# sc-12726, RRID:AB_667767 | (1:200) |
Antibody | anti-AP-2γ (Rabbit polyclonal) | Cell Signaling Technology | Cat# 2320, RRID:AB_2202287 | (1:800) |
Chemical compound, drug | Gentle Cell Dissociation Reagent | Stemcell Technologies | Cat # 07174 | |
Chemical compound, drug | Accutase solution | Sigma Aldrich | Cat # A6964 | |
Chemical compound, drug | RPMI 1640 Medium | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Cat # 11879020 | |
Chemical compound, drug | ROCK Inhibitor (Y-27632) | Millipore Sigma | Cat # SCM075 | (10 μM) |
Chemical compound, drug | Recombinant Human BMP-4 Protein | R and D Systems | Cat # 314 BP | (50 ng/mL) |
Chemical compound, drug | mTeSR1 | Stemcell Technologies | Cat # 85857 | |
Commercial assay, kit | Chromium Single Cell 3’ Library and Gel Bead Kit v2 | 10xGenomics | Cat # 120237 | |
Commercial assay, kit | Chromium Single Cell 3’ Chip Kit v2 | 10xGenomics | Cat # 120236 | |
Commercial assay, kit | Chromium i7 Multiplex Kit | 10xGenomics | Cat # 120262 | |
Software, algorithm | Seurat 3.1 | Stuart et al., 2019 Butler et al., 2018 | Seurat, RRID:SCR_016341 | scRNA-seq analysis |
Software, algorithm | CellPhoneDB | Efremova et al., 2020 | Receptor-ligand interaction analysis | |
Software, algorithm | R Bioconductor destiny | Angerer et al., 2016 (https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/destiny.html) | Pseudotime and transition probabilities | |
Software, algorithm | ImageJ/FIJI | ImageJ/FIJI | RRID:SCR_002285 | Image analysis |
Software, algorithm | FIJI plugin – Concentric Circles | https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/plugins/concentric-circles.html | Image analysis | |
Software, algorithm | FIJI plugin – ClearVolume | Royer et al., 2015 (https://imagej.net/ClearVolume) | Image analysis | |
Software, algorithm | Prism 8 | Graphpad | RRID:SCR_002798 | Statistics and graphs |
Other | DAPI | Millipore Sigma | Cat# D9542 | (0.4 μg/mL) |
Other | Donkey anti-Mouse IgG (H+L) Highly Cross-Adsorbed Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor 488 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Cat# A-21202, RRID:AB_141607 | (1:500) |
Other | Donkey anti-Goat IgG (H+L) Cross-Adsorbed Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor 555 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Cat# A-21432, RRID:AB_2535853 | (1:500) |
Other | Donkey anti-Rabbit IgG (H+L) Highly Cross-Adsorbed Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor 647 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Cat# A-31573, RRID:AB_2536183 | (1:500) |
Metadata for gastruloid cells including cluster annotation, replicate number, and predicted mouse and monkey cell types and stages.
Average gene expression correlation values between replicates 1 and 2.
Differentially expressed genes of gastruloid clusters.
Shared highly variable genes (HVGs) between gastruloid and reference datasets used for average gene expression correlation, and correlation values.
Metadata for cyno monkey cells including monkey cell type and developmental stage, and predicted mouse cell type and developmental stage.
Shared HVGs between mouse and monkey dataset, and gene expression correlation values of developmental stages.
Metadata for reseed cells including cluster annotation, and prediction scores for gastruloid cell types.
Downregulated and upregulated genes, shared HVGs, and gene expression correlation values between reseed and gastruloids.
Predicted interactions between reseed clusters.