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BMP4 signaling directs primitive endoderm-derived XEN cells to an extraembryonic visceral endoderm identity

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Artus, Jérôme, Douvaras, Panagiotis, Piliszek, Anna, Isern, Joan, Baron, Margaret H., Hadjantonakis, Anna-Katerina·2012·Developmental Biology

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The visceral endoderm (VE) is an epithelial tissue in the early postimplantation mouse embryo that encapsulates the pluripotent epiblast distally and the extraembryonic ectoderm proximally. In addition to facilitating nutrient exchange before the establishment of a circulation, the VE is critical for patterning the epiblast. Since VE is derived from the primitive endoderm (PrE) of the blastocyst, and PrE-derived eXtraembryonic ENdoderm (XEN) cells can be propagated in vitro, XEN cells should provide an important tool for identifying factors that direct VE differentiation. In this study, we demonstrated that BMP4 signaling induces the formation of a polarized epithelium in XEN cells. This morphological transition was reversible, and was associated with the acquisition of a molecular signature comparable to extraembryonic (ex) VE. Resembling exVE which will form the endoderm of the visceral yolk sac, BMP4-treated XEN cells regulated hematopoiesis by stimulating the expansion of primitive erythroid progenitors. We also observed that LIF exerted an antagonistic effect on BMP4-induced XEN cell differentiation, thereby impacting the extrinsic conditions used for the isolation and maintenance of XEN cells in an undifferentiated state. Taken together, our data suggest that XEN cells can be differentiated towards an exVE identity upon BMP4 stimulation and therefore represent a valuable tool for investigating PrE lineage differentiation.

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  • emVE represents a specialized variant of exVE, perhaps modulating a transcriptional program in response to stimuli such as BMP or Nodal.

    “Differential expression between bulk RNA sequenced E7.5 exVE and emVE populations suggested that emVE represents a specialized variant of exVE (Extended Data Fig. 7d), perhaps modulating a transcriptional program in response to stimuli, such as BMP or Nodal38–40.”

    From The emergent landscape of the mouse gut endoderm at single-cell resolution (2019) · cites this paper as [40]

    In Results and Discussion (page unavailable), the paper reports that BMP4 changes gene expression in XEN cells toward an exVE-like identity, supporting BMP as a stimulus that can modulate a visceral-endoderm program. It does not show that emVE is a specialized variant of exVE or that emVE modulates its program in response to BMP. The Introduction mentions Nodal-induced XEN-cell differentiation, but does not establish a Nodal response in emVE. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Artus, J., Douvaras, P., Piliszek, A., Isern, J., Baron, M. H., & Hadjantonakis, A.-K.
Affiliations
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • Tisch Cancer Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Hadjantonakis, Anna-Katerina
Venue
Developmental Biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-01
Volume
361
Issue
2
Pages
245-262
ISSN
0012-1606 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1965305891
Cited by
83
References
105
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FWCI
2.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Developmental Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Human Frontier Science Program, National Institutes of Health (RO1-HD052115, RO1-DK084391)
  • New York State Department of Health (N08G-175, N08G-024)
  • NIH (RO1-HL62248, RO1-DK52191)
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 › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Biology and Fertility
Keywords
BMP4 signaling, primitive endoderm, visceral endoderm, visceral yolk sac, epithelial polarization, hematopoiesis, LiF, blastocyst
MeSH terms
Animals, Endoderm, Epithelium, Extraembryonic Membranes, Viscera, Signal Transduction, Down-Regulation, Erythroid Precursor Cells, Up-Regulation, Cell Polarity, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Body Patterning, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Cell Shape, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Mice, Leukemia Inhibitory Factor, Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4

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