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Zygote ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Liyun Wang ◽  
Ronghua Ma ◽  
Gongxue Jia ◽  
Shengyan Jian ◽  
Xianghui Zeng ◽  
...  

Summary The generation of germ cells from embryonic stem cells in vitro has current historical significance. Western blot, qPCR, immunofluorescence and flow cytometry assays were used to investigate the differences in expression levels of totipotency and specific markers for Wnt regulation and the related signalling pathways during primordial germ cell-like cell (PGCLC) induction and differentiation. During PGCLC induction, activation of WNT3a increased the expression of NANOG, SOX2 and OCT4, but Mvh, DAZL, Blimp1, TFAP2C, Gata4, SOX17, EOMES, Brachyury and PRDM1 expression levels were significantly reduced. Inhibition of the WNT signal demonstrated the opposite effect. Similarly, inhibitors of BMP and the Nodal/Activin signal were used to determine the effect of signal pathways on differentiation. CER1 affected the Wnt signal and differentiation, but the inhibitor SB only regulated differentiation. BMP–WNT–NODAL were mainly responsible for regulating differentiation. Our results provide a reliable theoretical basis and feasibility for further clinical medical research.



2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D Findlay ◽  
Olena Bilyk ◽  
Kiefer Lypka ◽  
Andrew J Waskiewicz ◽  
Lynne-Marie Postovit

AbstractNODALis a morphogen essential for early embryonic development in vertebrates. Since much of our understanding ofNODALcomes from model organisms, we aimed to directly assess post-transcriptional regulation of human NODAL with specific attention to a newly discovered human-specific NODAL splice variant. Selective depletion of the NODAL variant in human embryonic stem cells resulted in increased LIFR levels, while total NODAL knockdown resulted in a decrease of several markers of pluripotency. The NODAL variant did not transmit a canonical NODAL signal in zebrafish embryos, but may share some functional capability with canonical NODAL in cancer cells. At the protein level, disruption of disulfide bond formation dramatically enhanced proteolytic processing of NODAL. Disruption of NODAL N-glycosylation decreased its secretion but not extracellular stability, and a novel N-glycosylation in the NODAL variant contributed to enhanced secretion. Collectively, this work offers a direct and precise account of post-transcriptional regulation of human NODAL.



2017 ◽  
Vol 130 (18) ◽  
pp. 3072-3082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi Wei ◽  
Guozhu Ning ◽  
Linwei Li ◽  
Yifang Yan ◽  
Shuyan Yang ◽  
...  




2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nariaki Yanagawa ◽  
Masahide Sakabe ◽  
Hirokazu Sakata ◽  
Toshiyuki Yamagishi ◽  
Yuji Nakajima


2010 ◽  
Vol 344 (1) ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
Yanagawa Nariaki ◽  
Toshiyuki Yamagishi ◽  
Yuji Nakajima


Cell Research ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (S1) ◽  
pp. S30-S30
Author(s):  
Zhao Wu ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Lei Xiao


2007 ◽  
Vol 282 (49) ◽  
pp. 35772-35786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhide Watanabe ◽  
Shin Hamada ◽  
Caterina Bianco ◽  
Mario Mancino ◽  
Tadahiro Nagaoka ◽  
...  

Cripto-1 (CR-1) has an indispensable role as a Nodal co-receptor for patterning of body axis in embryonic development. CR-1 is reported to have a paracrine activity as a Nodal co-receptor, although CR-1 is primarily produced as a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored membrane protein. Regulation of cis and trans function of CR-1 should be important to establish the precise body patterning. However, the mechanism by which GPI-anchored CR-1 can act in trans is not well known. Here we confirmed the paracrine activity of CR-1 by fluorescent cell-labeling and immunofluorescent staining. We generated COOH-terminal-truncated soluble forms of CR-1 based on the attachment site for the GPI moiety (ω-site), which we identified in the present study. GPI-anchored CR-1 has a significantly higher activity than COOH-terminal-truncated soluble forms to induce Nodal signal in trans as well as in cis. Moreover, transmembrane forms of CR-1 partially retained their ability to induce Nodal signaling only when type I receptor Activin-like kinase 4 was overexpressed. NTERA2/D1 cells, which express endogenous CR-1, lost the cell-surface expression of CR-1 after phosphatidylinositol-phospholipase C treatment and became refractory to stimulation of Nodal. These observations suggest that GPI attachment of CR-1 is required for the paracrine activity as a Nodal co-receptor.



Development ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 134 (21) ◽  
pp. 3893-3904 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Oki ◽  
R. Hashimoto ◽  
Y. Okui ◽  
M. M. Shen ◽  
E. Mekada ◽  
...  


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