Gastruloid development competence discriminates different states of pluripotency

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  • dc.contributor.author Cermola, Federica
  • dc.contributor.author D'Aniello, Cristina
  • dc.contributor.author Tatè, Rosarita
  • dc.contributor.author de Cesare, Dario
  • dc.contributor.author Martínez Arias, Alfonso
  • dc.contributor.author Minchiotti, Gabriella
  • dc.contributor.author Patriarca, Eduardo Jorge
  • dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-18T10:53:14Z
  • dc.date.available 2022-03-18T10:53:14Z
  • dc.date.issued 2021
  • dc.description.abstract Floating spheroidal aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells can develop into polarized/elongated organoids, namely gastruloids. We set up a high-performing assay to measure gastruloid formation efficiency (GFE), and found that GFE decreases as pluripotency progresses from naive (GFE ≥ 95%) to primed (GFE = 0) state. Specifically, we show that primed EpiSCs fail to generate proper cell aggregates, while early-primed EpiLCs aggregate but eventually fail to develop into elongated gastruloids. Moreover, we characterized proline-induced cells (PiCs), a LIF-dependent reversible early-primed state of pluripotency, and show that PiCs are able to generate gastruloids (GFE ∼ 50%) and are also competent to differentiate into primordial germ cell-like cells. Thus, we propose the GFE assay as a valuable functional tool to discriminate different states of the pluripotency continuum.
  • dc.description.sponsorship This study was supported by the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro AIRC (grant IG 20736), Italian Ministry of Education-University-Research (grant CTN01_00177 Cluster ALISEI_IRMI and PRIN 2017XJ38A4), and Project SATIN-POR Campania FESR 2014/2020 to G.M. A.M-A.’s research is funded by an ERC Advanced Investigator award (834580)
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  • dc.identifier.citation Cermola F, Aniello D'A, Tatè R, Cesare D de, Martinez-Arias A, Minchiotti G et al. Gastruloid development competence discriminates different states of pluripotency. Stem Cell Reports. 2021 Feb 9;16(2):354-369. DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.12.013
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.12.013
  • dc.identifier.issn 2213-6711
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52719
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Elsevier
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/834580
  • dc.rights © 2020. Federica Cermola et al. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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  • dc.subject.other Embriologia
  • dc.subject.other Genètica
  • dc.title Gastruloid development competence discriminates different states of pluripotency
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