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Lysosomal Signaling Licenses Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation via Inactivation of Tfe3

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Villegas, Florian, Lehalle, Daphné, Mayer, Daniela, Rittirsch, Melanie, Stadler, Michael B., Zinner, Marietta, Olivieri, Daniel, Vabres, Pierre +21 more·2019·Cell Stem Cell

Abstract

Self-renewal and differentiation of pluripotent murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs) is regulated by extrinsic signaling pathways. It is less clear whether cellular metabolism instructs developmental progression. In an unbiased genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen, we identified components of a conserved amino-acid-sensing pathway as critical drivers of ESC differentiation. Functional analysis revealed that lysosome activity, the Ragulator protein complex, and the tumor-suppressor protein Folliculin enable the Rag GTPases C and D to bind and seclude the bHLH transcription factor Tfe3 in the cytoplasm. In contrast, ectopic nuclear Tfe3 represses specific developmental and metabolic transcriptional programs that are associated with peri-implantation development. We show differentiation-specific and non-canonical regulation of Rag GTPase in ESCs and, importantly, identify point mutations in a Tfe3 domain required for cytoplasmic inactivation as potentially causal for a human developmental disorder. Our work reveals an instructive and biomedically relevant role of metabolic signaling in licensing embryonic cell fate transitions.

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Villegas, F., Lehalle, D., Mayer, D., Rittirsch, M., Stadler, M. B., Zinner, M., Olivieri, D., Vabres, P., Duplomb-Jego, L., De Bont, E. S. J. M., Duffourd, Y., Duijkers, F., Avila, M., Geneviève, D., Houcinat, N., Jouan, T., Kuentz, P., Lichtenbelt, K. D., Thauvin-Robinet, C., St-Onge, J., Thevenon, J., van Gassen, K. L. I., van Haelst, M., van Koningsbruggen, S., Hess, D., Smallwood, S. A., Rivière, J.-B., Faivre, L., & Betschinger, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Basel (CH)
  • Inserm (FR)
  • Friedrich Miescher Institute (CH)
  • SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
  • Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam (NL)
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier (FR)
  • University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
Corresponding author
Betschinger, Joerg
Venue
Cell Stem Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-02
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
257-270.e8
ISSN
  • 1875-9777 (ISSN-L)
  • 1934-5909
OpenAlex
W2907960662
Cited by
110
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 17
FWCI
5.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Cell stem cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (publishedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • EMBO
  • Marie Curie (ALTF 1632-2014)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
Keywords
embryonic stem cell differentiation, lysosomes, TFE3, Ragulator complex, Rag GTPases, folliculin, amino acid sensing, metabolic signaling, cell fate transitions, pluripotency, CRISPR-Cas9 screen, peri-implantation development
MeSH terms
Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, Cell Self Renewal, Alleles, Animals, Cell Differentiation, Female, Humans, Lysosomes, Male, Phosphorylation, Protein Binding, Transcription, Genetic, Signal Transduction, Genome, Point Mutation, GTP Phosphohydrolases, Mice, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, Neural Stem Cells

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