24 results on '"Shengyong Yu"'
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2. Forkhead box family transcription factors as versatile regulators for cellular reprogramming to pluripotency
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Meijun Fu, Huan Chen, Zepo Cai, Yihang Yang, Ziyu Feng, Mengying Zeng, Lijun Chen, Yue Qin, Baomei Cai, Pinghui Zhu, Chunhua Zhou, Shengyong Yu, Jing Guo, Jing Liu, Shangtao Cao, and Duanqing Pei
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Medicine (General) ,R5-920 ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Abstract Forkhead box (Fox) transcription factors play important roles in mammalian development and disease. However, their function in mouse somatic cell reprogramming remains unclear. Here, we report that FoxD subfamily and FoxG1 accelerate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generation from mouse fibroblasts as early as day4 while FoxA and FoxO subfamily impede this process obviously. More importantly, FoxD3, FoxD4 and FoxG1 can replace Oct4 respectively and generate iPSCs with germline transmission together with Sox2 and Klf4. On the contrary, FoxO6 almost totally blocks reprogramming through inhibiting cell proliferation, suppressing the expression of pluripotent genes and hindering the process of mesenchymal to epithelial transition (MET). Thus, our study uncovers unexpected roles of Fox transcription factors in reprogramming and offers new insights into cell fate transition.
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- 2021
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3. SS18 regulates pluripotent-somatic transition through phase separation
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Junqi Kuang, Ziwei Zhai, Pengli Li, Ruona Shi, Wenjing Guo, Yuxiang Yao, Jing Guo, Guoqing Zhao, Jiangpin He, Shuyang Xu, Chuman Wu, Shengyong Yu, Chunhua Zhou, Linlin Wu, Yue Qin, Baomei Cai, Wei Li, Zichao Wu, Xiaoxi Li, Shilong Chu, Tingting Yang, Bo Wang, Shangtao Cao, Dongwei Li, Xiaofei Zhang, Jiekai Chen, Jing Liu, and Duanqing Pei
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Science - Abstract
Emerging evidence suggests that exit from pluripotency is a regulated, rather than passive process. Here the authors identify a requirement for SS18-mediated Brg/Brahma-associated factors (BAF) chromatin remodeling complex assembly during exit from pluripotency, and that SS18 promotes BAF assembly through liquidliquid phase separation.
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- 2021
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4. Static Magnetic Fields Regulate T-Type Calcium Ion Channels and Mediate Mesenchymal Stem Cells Proliferation
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Haokaifeng Wu, Chuang Li, Muqaddas Masood, Zhen Zhang, Esther González-Almela, Alvaro Castells-Garcia, Gaoyang Zou, Xiaoduo Xu, Luqin Wang, Guoqing Zhao, Shengyong Yu, Ping Zhu, Bo Wang, Dajiang Qin, and Jing Liu
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static magnetic field ,mesenchymal stem cell ,T-type calcium ion channel ,MAPK signaling pathway ,Cytology ,QH573-671 - Abstract
The static magnetic fields (SMFs) impact on biological systems, induce a variety of biological responses, and have been applied to the clinical treatment of diseases. However, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear. In this report, by using human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as a model, we investigated the biological effect of SMFs at a molecular and cellular level. We showed that SMF exposure promotes MSC proliferation and activates the expression of transcriptional factors such as FOS (Fos Proto-Oncogene, AP-1 Transcription Factor Subunit) and EGR1 (Early Growth Response 1). In addition, the expression of signal-transduction proteins p-ERK1/2 and p-JNK oscillate periodically with SMF exposure time. Furthermore, we found that the inhibition of the T-type calcium ion channels negates the biological effects of SMFs on MSCs. Together, we revealed that the SMFs regulate T-type calcium ion channels and mediate MSC proliferation via the MAPK signaling pathways.
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- 2022
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5. Kdm2b Regulates Somatic Reprogramming through Variant PRC1 Complex-Dependent Function
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Zhiwei Zhou, Xuejie Yang, Jiangping He, Jing Liu, Fang Wu, Shengyong Yu, Yuting Liu, Runxia Lin, He Liu, Yuanbin Cui, Chunhua Zhou, Xiaoshan Wang, Jian Wu, Shangtao Cao, Lin Guo, Lihui Lin, Tao Wang, Xiaozhong Peng, Boqing Qiang, Andrew P. Hutchins, Duanqing Pei, and Jiekai Chen
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reprogramming ,Polycomb repressive complex 1 ,PRC1 ,Kdm2b ,BMP signaling ,epigenetic regulation ,variant PRC1 ,iPS ,pluripotency ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) plays essential roles in cell-fate determination. Recent studies have found that the composition of mammalian PRC1 is particularly varied and complex; however, little is known about the functional consequences of these variant PRC1 complexes on cell-fate determination. Here, we show that Kdm2b promotes Oct4-induced somatic reprogramming through recruitment of a variant PRC1 complex (PRC1.1) to CpG islands (CGIs). Furthermore, we find that bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) represses Oct4/Kdm2b-induced somatic reprogramming selectively. Mechanistically, BMP-SMAD pathway attenuates PRC1.1 occupation and H2AK119 ubiquitination at genes linked to development, resulting in the expression of mesendodermal factors such as Sox17 and a consequent suppression of somatic reprogramming. These observations reveal that PRC1.1 participates in the establishment of pluripotency and identify BMP4 signaling as a modulator of PRC1.1 function.
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- 2017
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6. Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts by Jdp2-Jhdm1b-Mkk6-Glis1-Nanog-Essrb-Sall4
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Bo Wang, Linlin Wu, Dongwei Li, Yuting Liu, Jing Guo, Chen Li, Yuxiang Yao, Yaofeng Wang, Guoqing Zhao, Xiaoshan Wang, Meijun Fu, He Liu, Shangtao Cao, Chuman Wu, Shengyong Yu, Chunhua Zhou, Yue Qin, Junqi Kuang, Jin Ming, Shilong Chu, Xuejie Yang, Ping Zhu, Guangjin Pan, Jiekai Chen, Jing Liu, and Duanqing Pei
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Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Summary: Reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotency by Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and Myc represent a paradigm for cell fate determination. Here, we report a combination of Jdp2, Jhdm1b, Mkk6, Glis1, Nanog, Essrb, and Sall4 (7F) that reprogram mouse embryonic fibroblasts or MEFs to chimera competent induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) efficiently. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and ATAC-seq reveal distinct mechanisms for 7F induction of pluripotency. Dropout experiments further reveal a highly cooperative process among 7F to dynamically close and open chromatin loci that encode a network of transcription factors to mediate reprogramming. These results establish an alternative paradigm for reprogramming that may be useful for analyzing cell fate control. : Wang et al. report a 7F reprogramming system for iPSC generation and the underlying mechanism for inducing pluripotency through a TF network, opening an alternative path for reprogramming cell fate.
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- 2019
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7. Establishment and Identification of a CiPSC Lineage Reprogrammed from FSP-tdTomato Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs)
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Ruiping Chen, Wenxiu Xie, Baomei Cai, Yue Qin, Chuman Wu, Wenyi Zhou, Chunhua Zhou, Shengyong Yu, Junqi Kuang, Bin Yang, Mingyi Zhao, and Ping Zhu
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Internal medicine ,RC31-1245 - Abstract
Safety issues associated with transcription factors or viruses may be avoided with the use of chemically induced pluripotent stem cells (CiPSCs), thus promoting their clinical application. Previously, we had successfully developed and standardized an induction method using small-molecule compound, with simple operation, uniform induction conditions, and clear constituents. In order to verify that the CiPSCs were indeed reprogrammed from mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), and further explore the underlying mechanisms, FSP-tdTomato mice were used to construct a fluorescent protein-tracking system of MEFs, for revealing the process of CiPSC reprogramming. CiPSCs were identified by morphological analysis, mRNA, and protein expression of pluripotency genes, as well as teratoma formation experiments. Results showed that after 40-day treatment of tdTomato-MEFs with small-molecule compounds, the cells were presented with prominent nucleoli, high core-to-cytoplasmic ratio, round shape, group and mass arrangement, and high expression of pluripotency gene. These cells could differentiate into three germ layer tissues in vivo. As indicated by the above results, tdTomato-MEFs could be reprogrammed into CiPSCs, a lineage that possesses pluripotency similar to mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs), with the use of small-molecule compounds. The establishment of CiPSC lineage, tracked by fluorescent protein, would benefit further studies exploring its underlying mechanisms. With continuous expression of fluorescent proteins during cellular differentiation, this cell lineage could be used for tracking CiPSC transplantation and differentiation into functional cells.
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- 2018
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8. MYOCD is Required for Cardiomyocyte-like Cells Induction from Human Urine Cells and Fibroblasts Through Remodeling Chromatin
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Xiangyu Zhang, Lijun Chen, Xingnan Huang, Huan Chen, Baomei Cai, Yue Qin, Yating Chen, Sihua Ou, Xiaoxi Li, Zichao Wu, Ziyu Feng, Mengying Zeng, Wenjing Guo, Heying Li, Chunhua Zhou, Shengyong Yu, Mengjie Pan, Jing Liu, Kai Kang, Shangtao Cao, and Duanqing Pei
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Mice ,Animals ,Humans ,Transposases ,Myocytes, Cardiac ,General Medicine ,Fibroblasts ,Cells, Cultured ,Chromatin - Abstract
Despite direct reprogramming of human cardiac fibroblasts into induced cardiomyocytes (iCM) holds great potential for heart regeneration, the mechanisms are poorly understood. Whether other human somatic cells could be reprogrammed into cardiomyocytes is also unknown. Here, we report human urine cells (hUCs) could be converted into CM-like cells from different donors and the related chromatin accessibility dynamics (CAD) by assay for transposase accessible chromatin(ATAC)-seq. hUCs transduced by MEF2C, TBX5, MESP1 and MYOCD but without GATA4 expressed multiple cardiac specific genes, exhibited Ca
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- 2022
9. Regeneration of the human segmentation clock in somitoids in vitro
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Yue Qin, Xingnan Huang, Zepo Cai, Baomei Cai, Jiangping He, Yuxiang Yao, Chunhua Zhou, Junqi Kuang, Yihang Yang, Huan Chen, Yating Chen, Sihua Ou, Lijun Chen, Fang Wu, Ning Guo, Yapei Yuan, Xiangyu Zhang, Wei Pang, Ziyu Feng, Shengyong Yu, Jing Liu, Shangtao Cao, and Duanqing Pei
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Mesoderm ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Somites ,General Neuroscience ,Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors ,Humans ,Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ,Molecular Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Signal Transduction ,Body Patterning - Abstract
Each vertebrate species appears to have a unique timing mechanism for forming somites along the vertebral column, and the process in human remains poorly understood at the molecular level due to technical and ethical limitations. Here, we report the reconstitution of human segmentation clock by direct reprogramming. We first reprogrammed human urine epithelial cells to a presomitic mesoderm (PSM) state capable of long-term self-renewal and formation of somitoids with an anterior-to-posterior axis. By inserting the RNA reporter Pepper into HES7 and MESP2 loci of these iPSM cells, we show that both transcripts oscillate in the resulting somitoids at ~5 h/cycle. GFP-tagged endogenous HES7 protein moves along the anterior-to-posterior axis during somitoid formation. The geo-sequencing analysis further confirmed anterior-to-posterior polarity and revealed the localized expression of WNT, BMP, FGF, and RA signaling molecules and HOXA-D family members. Our study demonstrates the direct reconstitution of human segmentation clock from somatic cells, which may allow future dissection of the mechanism and components of such a clock and aid regenerative medicine.
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- 2022
10. BMP4 resets mouse epiblast stem cells to naive pluripotency through ZBTB7A/B-mediated chromatin remodelling
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Bo Wang, Baomei Cai, Shengyong Yu, Xingnan Huang, Chunhua Zhou, Lizhan Xiao, Shilong Chu, Junqi Kuang, Wei Pang, Wenxiu Xie, Jing Ye, Duanqing Pei, Rongping Luo, Linlin Wu, Yue Qin, Mengying Zeng, Chen Li, Jing Guo, Xiaoshan Wang, Shuyang Xu, He Liu, Kaixin Wu, Guoqing Zhao, Jiekai Chen, Lin Guo, Jiangping He, Shangtao Cao, and Jing Liu
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Regulation of gene expression ,0303 health sciences ,animal structures ,Cellular differentiation ,Cell Biology ,Biology ,Chromatin ,Cell biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Epiblast ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,embryonic structures ,Gene expression ,Stem cell ,Signal transduction ,Gene ,030304 developmental biology - Abstract
BMP4 regulates a plethora of developmental processes, including the dorsal-ventral axis and neural patterning. Here, we report that BMP4 reconfigures the nuclear architecture during the primed-to-naive transition (PNT). We first established a BMP4-driven PNT and show that BMP4 orchestrates the chromatin accessibility dynamics during PNT. Among the loci opened early by BMP4, we identified Zbtb7a and Zbtb7b (Zbtb7a/b) as targets that drive PNT. ZBTB7A/B in turn facilitate the opening of naive pluripotent chromatin loci and the activation of nearby genes. Mechanistically, ZBTB7A not only binds to chromatin loci near to the genes that are activated, but also strategically occupies those that are silenced, consistent with a role of BMP4 in both activating and suppressing gene expression during PNT at the chromatin level. Our results reveal a previously unknown function of BMP4 in regulating nuclear architecture and link its targets ZBTB7A/B to chromatin remodelling and pluripotent fate control.
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- 2020
11. Forkhead box family transcription factors as versatile regulators for cellular reprogramming to pluripotency
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Baomei Cai, Pinghui Zhu, Jing Guo, Ziyu Feng, Mengying Zeng, Meijun Fu, Shengyong Yu, Duanqing Pei, Shangtao Cao, Yihang Yang, Jing Liu, Chunhua Zhou, Lijun Chen, Yue Qin, Zepo Cai, and Huan Chen
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Medicine (General) ,0303 health sciences ,QH301-705.5 ,fungi ,Cell Biology ,Cell fate determination ,Biology ,Cell biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,R5-920 ,0302 clinical medicine ,SOX2 ,KLF4 ,embryonic structures ,Biology (General) ,Stem cell ,FOXD3 ,Induced pluripotent stem cell ,Reprogramming ,Transcription factor ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Research Article ,030304 developmental biology ,Developmental Biology - Abstract
Forkhead box (Fox) transcription factors play important roles in mammalian development and disease. However, their function in mouse somatic cell reprogramming remains unclear. Here, we report that FoxD subfamily and FoxG1 accelerate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generation from mouse fibroblasts as early as day4 while FoxA and FoxO subfamily impede this process obviously. More importantly, FoxD3, FoxD4 and FoxG1 can replace Oct4 respectively and generate iPSCs with germline transmission together with Sox2 and Klf4. On the contrary, FoxO6 almost totally blocks reprogramming through inhibiting cell proliferation, suppressing the expression of pluripotent genes and hindering the process of mesenchymal to epithelial transition (MET). Thus, our study uncovers unexpected roles of Fox transcription factors in reprogramming and offers new insights into cell fate transition. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13619-021-00078-4.
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- 2021
12. SS18 regulates pluripotent-somatic transition through phase separation
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Shengyong Yu, Linlin Wu, Ziwei Zhai, Guoqing Zhao, Ruona Shi, Xiaofei Zhang, Tingting Yang, Xiaoxi Li, Yuxiang Yao, Pengli Li, Zichao Wu, Yue Qin, Jing Guo, Dongwei Li, Chunhua Zhou, Chuman Wu, Wenjing Guo, Shuyang Xu, Shilong Chu, Jiekai Chen, Jiangpin He, Shangtao Cao, Duanqing Pei, Wei Li, Bo Wang, Baomei Cai, Jing Liu, and Junqi Kuang
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Pluripotent Stem Cells ,Cell biology ,Embryonic stem cells ,Somatic cell ,Molecular biology ,Science ,Regulator ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Intrinsically disordered proteins ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Chromatin remodeling ,Article ,Phase Transition ,03 medical and health sciences ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins ,CRISPR ,Animals ,Humans ,Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats ,Tyrosine ,Cell Nucleus ,Mice, Knockout ,Multidisciplinary ,Chemistry ,HEK 293 cells ,fungi ,food and beverages ,General Chemistry ,Embryonic stem cell ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Repressor Proteins ,030104 developmental biology ,HEK293 Cells ,Female ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
The transition from pluripotent to somatic states marks a critical event in mammalian development, but remains largely unresolved. Here we report the identification of SS18 as a regulator for pluripotent to somatic transition or PST by CRISPR-based whole genome screens. Mechanistically, SS18 forms microscopic condensates in nuclei through a C-terminal intrinsically disordered region (IDR) rich in tyrosine, which, once mutated, no longer form condensates nor rescue SS18−/− defect in PST. Yet, the IDR alone is not sufficient to rescue the defect even though it can form condensates indistinguishable from the wild type protein. We further show that its N-terminal 70aa is required for PST by interacting with the Brg/Brahma-associated factor (BAF) complex, and remains functional even swapped onto unrelated IDRs or even an artificial 24 tyrosine polypeptide. Finally, we show that SS18 mediates BAF assembly through phase separation to regulate PST. These studies suggest that SS18 plays a role in the pluripotent to somatic interface and undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation through a unique tyrosine-based mechanism., Emerging evidence suggests that exit from pluripotency is a regulated, rather than passive process. Here the authors identify a requirement for SS18-mediated Brg/Brahma-associated factors (BAF) chromatin remodeling complex assembly during exit from pluripotency, and that SS18 promotes BAF assembly through liquidliquid phase separation.
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- 2021
13. Single Cell Sequencing Reveals Early PGC-like Intermediates During Mouse Primed to Naïve Transition
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Zhaokai Yao, Shangtao Cao, Duanqing Pei, Jing Guo, Shuyan Chen, Xingnan Huang, Chunhua Zhou, Jing Liu, Yue Qin, Man Zhang, He Liu, Lizhan Xiao, Hong Zhu, Jiangping He, Xiaoyang Zhao, Baomei Cai, Shengyong Yu, Jiekai Chen, Yuhan Chen, and Yixuan Wang
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Text mining ,Transition (genetics) ,Single cell sequencing ,business.industry ,Computational biology ,Biology ,business - Abstract
Single cell analysis provides clarity unattainable with bulk approaches. Here we apply single cell RNA-seq to a newly established BMP4 induced mouse primed to naive transition (Bi-PNT) system and show that the reset is not a direct reversal of cell fate but through developmental intermediates. We first show that mEpiSCs bifurcate into c-Kit+ naïve and c-Kit- placenta-like cells, among which, the naive branch undergoes further transition through a primordial germ cell-like cells (PGCLCs) intermediate capable of spermatogenesis in vivo. Indeed, deficiency of Prdm1/Blimp1, the key regulator for PGC specification, blocks the induction of PGCLCs and naïve cells. Instead, Gata2 knockout arrests placenta-like fate, but facilitates the generation of PGCLCs. Our results not only reveal a newly cell fate dynamics between primed and naive states at single-cell resolution, but also provide a model system to explore mechanisms involved in regaining germline competence from primed pluripotency.
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- 2021
14. Kdm2b Regulates Somatic Reprogramming through Variant PRC1 Complex-Dependent Function
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Xiaozhong Peng, He Liu, Lihui Lin, Jiangping He, Duanqing Pei, Xuejie Yang, Runxia Lin, Zhiwei Zhou, Andrew P. Hutchins, Shengyong Yu, Yuting Liu, Boqing Qiang, Lin Guo, Chunhua Zhou, Yuanbin Cui, Jian Wu, Xiaoshan Wang, Shangtao Cao, Tao Wang, Jing Liu, Fang Wu, and Jiekai Chen
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0301 basic medicine ,Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases ,BMP signaling ,Somatic cell ,KDM2B ,macromolecular substances ,Biology ,Bone morphogenetic protein ,epigenetic regulation ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Histones ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,Animals ,Epigenetics ,PRC1 complex ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 ,Genetics ,Kdm2b ,F-Box Proteins ,iPS ,Ubiquitination ,reprogramming ,variant PRC1 ,Cell Differentiation ,pluripotency ,PRC1 ,030104 developmental biology ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,CpG site ,embryonic structures ,Octamer Transcription Factor-3 ,Reprogramming - Abstract
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) plays essential roles in cell-fate determination. Recent studies have found that the composition of mammalian PRC1 is particularly varied and complex; however, little is known about the functional consequences of these variant PRC1 complexes on cell-fate determination. Here, we show that Kdm2b promotes Oct4-induced somatic reprogramming through recruitment of a variant PRC1 complex (PRC1.1) to CpG islands (CGIs). Furthermore, we find that bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) represses Oct4/Kdm2b-induced somatic reprogramming selectively. Mechanistically, BMP-SMAD pathway attenuates PRC1.1 occupation and H2AK119 ubiquitination at genes linked to development, resulting in the expression of mesendodermal factors such as Sox17 and a consequent suppression of somatic reprogramming. These observations reveal that PRC1.1 participates in the establishment of pluripotency and identify BMP4 signaling as a modulator of PRC1.1 function.
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- 2017
15. BMP4 resets mouse epiblast stem cells to naive pluripotency through ZBTB7A/B-mediated chromatin remodelling
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Shengyong, Yu, Chunhua, Zhou, Shangtao, Cao, Jiangping, He, Baomei, Cai, Kaixin, Wu, Yue, Qin, Xingnan, Huang, Lizhan, Xiao, Jing, Ye, Shuyang, Xu, Wenxiu, Xie, Junqi, Kuang, Shilong, Chu, Jing, Guo, He, Liu, Wei, Pang, Lin, Guo, Mengying, Zeng, Xiaoshan, Wang, Rongping, Luo, Chen, Li, Guoqing, Zhao, Bo, Wang, Linlin, Wu, Jiekai, Chen, Jing, Liu, and Duanqing, Pei
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Male ,Pluripotent Stem Cells ,Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ,Cell Differentiation ,Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 ,Chromatin ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Mice ,Blastocyst ,Mice, Inbred CBA ,Animals ,Female ,Cells, Cultured ,Embryonic Stem Cells ,Germ Layers ,Signal Transduction ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
BMP4 regulates a plethora of developmental processes, including the dorsal-ventral axis and neural patterning. Here, we report that BMP4 reconfigures the nuclear architecture during the primed-to-naive transition (PNT). We first established a BMP4-driven PNT and show that BMP4 orchestrates the chromatin accessibility dynamics during PNT. Among the loci opened early by BMP4, we identified Zbtb7a and Zbtb7b (Zbtb7a/b) as targets that drive PNT. ZBTB7A/B in turn facilitate the opening of naive pluripotent chromatin loci and the activation of nearby genes. Mechanistically, ZBTB7A not only binds to chromatin loci near to the genes that are activated, but also strategically occupies those that are silenced, consistent with a role of BMP4 in both activating and suppressing gene expression during PNT at the chromatin level. Our results reveal a previously unknown function of BMP4 in regulating nuclear architecture and link its targets ZBTB7A/B to chromatin remodelling and pluripotent fate control.
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- 2019
16. Establishment and Identification of a CiPSC Lineage Reprogrammed from FSP-tdTomato Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs)
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Chuman Wu, Yue Qin, Baomei Cai, Ruiping Chen, Bin Yang, Wenyi Zhou, Mingyi Zhao, Chunhua Zhou, Wenxiu Xie, Shengyong Yu, Junqi Kuang, and Ping Zhu
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0301 basic medicine ,lcsh:Internal medicine ,Lineage (genetic) ,Article Subject ,Cellular differentiation ,Cell Biology ,Germ layer ,Biology ,Embryonic stem cell ,Cell biology ,Transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,lcsh:RC31-1245 ,Induced pluripotent stem cell ,Molecular Biology ,Reprogramming ,Transcription factor ,Research Article - Abstract
Safety issues associated with transcription factors or viruses may be avoided with the use of chemically induced pluripotent stem cells (CiPSCs), thus promoting their clinical application. Previously, we had successfully developed and standardized an induction method using small-molecule compound, with simple operation, uniform induction conditions, and clear constituents. In order to verify that the CiPSCs were indeed reprogrammed from mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), and further explore the underlying mechanisms, FSP-tdTomato mice were used to construct a fluorescent protein-tracking system of MEFs, for revealing the process of CiPSC reprogramming. CiPSCs were identified by morphological analysis, mRNA, and protein expression of pluripotency genes, as well as teratoma formation experiments. Results showed that after 40-day treatment of tdTomato-MEFs with small-molecule compounds, the cells were presented with prominent nucleoli, high core-to-cytoplasmic ratio, round shape, group and mass arrangement, and high expression of pluripotency gene. These cells could differentiate into three germ layer tissues in vivo. As indicated by the above results, tdTomato-MEFs could be reprogrammed into CiPSCs, a lineage that possesses pluripotency similar to mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs), with the use of small-molecule compounds. The establishment of CiPSC lineage, tracked by fluorescent protein, would benefit further studies exploring its underlying mechanisms. With continuous expression of fluorescent proteins during cellular differentiation, this cell lineage could be used for tracking CiPSC transplantation and differentiation into functional cells.
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- 2018
17. Chemical reprogramming of mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast into endoderm lineage
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Yan Chen, He Liu, Xiaodong Shu, Shilong Chu, Yue Qin, Lin Guo, Yinxiong Li, Junqi Kuang, Xiaoshan Wang, Chunhua Zhou, Dongwei Li, Jing Ye, Duanqing Pei, Shangtao Cao, Jing Liu, Shengyong Yu, Yuting Liu, Linlin Wu, and Jiekai Chen
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0301 basic medicine ,Cell signaling ,Somatic cell ,Cell fate determination ,Biology ,Biochemistry ,03 medical and health sciences ,Mice ,HMGB Proteins ,medicine ,SOXF Transcription Factors ,Animals ,Editors' Picks ,Progenitor cell ,Cell Self Renewal ,Fibroblast ,Molecular Biology ,Cells, Cultured ,Stem Cells ,Endoderm ,food and beverages ,Cell Differentiation ,Cell Biology ,Fibroblasts ,Cellular Reprogramming ,Embryonic stem cell ,Cell biology ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Immunology ,Hepatocytes ,Female ,Reprogramming - Abstract
We report here an approach to redirecting somatic cell fate under chemically defined conditions without transcription factors. We start by converting mouse embryonic fibroblasts to epithelial-like cells with chemicals and growth factors. Subsequent cell fate mapping reveals a robust induction of SOX17 in the resulting epithelial-like cells that can be further reprogrammed to endodermal progenitor cells. Interestingly, these cells can self-renew in vitro and further differentiate into albumin-producing hepatocytes that can rescue mice from acute liver injury. Our results demonstrate a rational approach to convert mouse embryonic fibroblasts to hepatocytes and suggest that this mechanism-driven approach may be generalized for other cells.
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- 2017
18. Integrative functional analysis of super enhancer SNPs for coronary artery disease
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Yiyan Zhang, Chuan Qiu, Juexiao Gong, Dan Huang, Chun-Ping Zeng, and Shengyong Yu
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0301 basic medicine ,ERBB signaling pathway ,Gene Expression ,Genome-wide association study ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,Computational biology ,Coronary Artery Disease ,Biology ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Histones ,03 medical and health sciences ,Super-enhancer ,Protein Interaction Mapping ,Genetics ,Humans ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,Protein Interaction Maps ,Enhancer ,Transcription factor ,Genetics (clinical) ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Chromosome Mapping ,Computational Biology ,Molecular Sequence Annotation ,Chromatin ,030104 developmental biology ,Enhancer Elements, Genetic ,Transcriptome ,Functional genomics ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
Clinical research in coronary artery disease (CAD) primarily focused on genetic variants located in protein-coding regions. Recently, mutations fall within non-coding regions have been suggested to be essential to the pathogenesis of human complex disease. Super enhancer is a densely spaced cluster of transcriptional enhancers located in non-coding regions, which is critical for regulating cell-type specific gene expression. However, the underlying mechanism of the super enhancer single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) affecting the risk of CAD remains unclear. By integrating genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of CAD and cell/tissue-specific histone modification data set, we identified 366 potential CAD-associated super enhancer SNPs in 67 loci, including 94 SNPs that are involved in regulating chromatin interactive and/or affecting the transcription factors binding affinity. Interestingly, we found 7 novel functional loci (CBFA2T3, ZMIZ1, DIP2B, SCNN1D/ACAP3, TMEM105, CAMK2G, and MAPK1) that CAD-associated super enhancer SNPs were clustered into the same or neighboring super enhancers. Pathway analysis showed a significant enrichment in several well-known signaling and regulatory processes, e.g., cAMP signaling pathway and ErbB signaling pathway, which play a key role in CAD metabolism. Our results highlight the potential functional importance of CAD-associated super enhancer SNPs and provide the targets for further insights on the pathogenesis of CAD.
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- 2017
19. Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts by Jdp2-Jhdm1b-Mkk6-Glis1-Nanog-Essrb-Sall4
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Ping Zhu, Junqi Kuang, Meijun Fu, Chunhua Zhou, Guangjin Pan, Yuxiang Yao, Yaofeng Wang, Guoqing Zhao, Duanqing Pei, Chuman Wu, Jiekai Chen, Bo Wang, Jin Ming, Dongwei Li, Linlin Wu, Jing Guo, Yue Qin, He Liu, Shilong Chu, Chen Li, Shengyong Yu, Yuting Liu, Shangtao Cao, Xiaoshan Wang, Jing Liu, and Xuejie Yang
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0301 basic medicine ,Homeobox protein NANOG ,Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases ,Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells ,Mice, Transgenic ,MAP Kinase Kinase 6 ,Biology ,GLIS1 ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Euchromatin ,Kruppel-Like Factor 4 ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,SOX2 ,Heterochromatin ,Animals ,RNA-Seq ,Induced pluripotent stem cell ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Cells, Cultured ,Embryonic Stem Cells ,Chimera ,F-Box Proteins ,Cell Differentiation ,Nanog Homeobox Protein ,Fibroblasts ,Cellular Reprogramming ,Embryonic stem cell ,Cell biology ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Repressor Proteins ,030104 developmental biology ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,KLF4 ,Cell Fate Control ,embryonic structures ,Reprogramming ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Summary: Reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotency by Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and Myc represent a paradigm for cell fate determination. Here, we report a combination of Jdp2, Jhdm1b, Mkk6, Glis1, Nanog, Essrb, and Sall4 (7F) that reprogram mouse embryonic fibroblasts or MEFs to chimera competent induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) efficiently. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and ATAC-seq reveal distinct mechanisms for 7F induction of pluripotency. Dropout experiments further reveal a highly cooperative process among 7F to dynamically close and open chromatin loci that encode a network of transcription factors to mediate reprogramming. These results establish an alternative paradigm for reprogramming that may be useful for analyzing cell fate control. : Wang et al. report a 7F reprogramming system for iPSC generation and the underlying mechanism for inducing pluripotency through a TF network, opening an alternative path for reprogramming cell fate.
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- 2019
20. Chromatin Accessibility Dynamics during Chemical Induction of Pluripotency
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Jian Wu, Chuman Wu, Ruiping Chen, Chunhua Zhou, Shangtao Cao, Guangjin Pan, He Liu, Chen Li, Jiangping He, Jing Ye, Duanqing Pei, Yuanbang Mai, Jiekai Chen, Xiaodong Shu, Jing Liu, Xiaoshan Wang, Xuejie Yang, Bentian Zhao, Yue Qin, Wai-Yee Chan, Dongwei Li, and Shengyong Yu
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0301 basic medicine ,Somatic cell ,Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells ,CIP protocol ,Cell Biology ,Biology ,Genome ,Chromatin ,Nuclear architecture ,Cell biology ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,AP-1 transcription factor ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,Genetics ,Animals ,Molecular Medicine ,Reprogramming ,Bromodeoxyuridine - Abstract
Summary Despite its exciting potential, chemical induction of pluripotency (CIP) efficiency remains low and the mechanisms are poorly understood. We report the development of an efficient two-step serum- and replating-free CIP protocol and the associated chromatin accessibility dynamics (CAD) by assay for transposase-accessible chromatin (ATAC)-seq. CIP reorganizes the somatic genome to an intermediate state that is resolved under 2iL condition by re-closing previously opened loci prior to pluripotency acquisition with gradual opening of loci enriched with motifs for the OCT/SOX/KLF families. Bromodeoxyuridine, a critical ingredient of CIP, is responsible for both closing and opening critical loci, at least in part by preventing the opening of loci enriched with motifs for the AP1 family and facilitating the opening of loci enriched with SOX/KLF/GATA motifs. These changes differ markedly from CAD observed during Yamanaka-factor-driven reprogramming. Our study provides insights into small-molecule-based reprogramming mechanisms and reorganization of nuclear architecture associated with cell-fate decisions.
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21. The oncogene c-Jun impedes somatic cell reprogramming
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Tianran Peng, Haoyu Wu, Qingkai Han, Zhiwei Zhou, Duanqing Pei, Hongjie Yao, Hongling Wu, Jing Chen, Lin Guo, You Chen, Xiaoshan Wang, Junqi Kuang, Jiaqi Yang, Kaimeng Huang, Meixiu Peng, Yongqiang Chen, Shengyong Yu, Bei Wei, Hong Song, Jiekai Chen, Wei He, Dongwei Li, He Liu, Guangjin Pan, Jing Liu, Shangtao Cao, Andrew P. Hutchins, Xuejia Li, and Baojian Liao
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Male ,Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition ,Mice, 129 Strain ,Somatic cell ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun ,Immunoblotting ,Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells ,Mice, Transgenic ,macromolecular substances ,Biology ,Animals ,Humans ,Cells, Cultured ,Embryonic Stem Cells ,Cell Proliferation ,Mice, Inbred ICR ,Microscopy, Confocal ,Oncogene ,Gene Expression Profiling ,fungi ,c-jun ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,food and beverages ,Cell Biology ,Fibroblasts ,Cellular Reprogramming ,Embryo, Mammalian ,Cell biology ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Repressor Proteins ,HEK293 Cells ,embryonic structures ,Cancer research ,Mice, Inbred CBA ,Female ,RNA Interference ,Reprogramming ,Octamer Transcription Factor-3 - Abstract
Oncogenic transcription factors are known to mediate the conversion of somatic cells to tumour or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Here we report c-Jun as a barrier for iPSC formation. c-Jun is expressed by and required for the proliferation of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), but not mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). Consistently, c-Jun is induced during mESC differentiation, drives mESCs towards the endoderm lineage and completely blocks the generation of iPSCs from MEFs. Mechanistically, c-Jun activates mesenchymal-related genes, broadly suppresses the pluripotent ones, and derails the obligatory mesenchymal to epithelial transition during reprogramming. Furthermore, inhibition of c-Jun by shRNA, dominant-negative c-Jun or Jdp2 enhances reprogramming and replaces Oct4 among the Yamanaka factors. Finally, Jdp2 anchors 5 non-Yamanaka factors (Id1, Jhdm1b, Lrh1, Sall4 and Glis1) to reprogram MEFs into iPSCs. Our studies reveal c-Jun as a guardian of somatic cell fate and its suppression opens the gate to pluripotency.
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22. Chemical reprogramming of mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast into endoderm lineage.
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Shangtao Cao, Shengyong Yu, Yan Chen, Xiaoshan Wang, Chunhua Zhou, Yuting Liu, Junqi Kuang, He Liu, Dongwei Li, Jing Ye, Yue Qin, Shilong Chu, Linlin Wu, Lin Guo, Yinxiong Li, Xiaodong Shu, Jiekai Chen, Jing Liu, and Duanqing Pei
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We report here an approach to redirecting somatic cell fate under chemically defined conditions without transcription factors. We start by converting mouse embryonic fibroblasts to epithelial-like cells with chemicals and growth factors. Subsequent cell fate mapping reveals a robust induction of SOX17 in the resulting epithelial-like cells that can be further reprogrammed to endodermal progenitor cells. Interestingly, these cells can self-renew in vitro and further differentiate into albumin- producing hepatocytes that can rescue mice from acute liver injury. Our results demonstrate a rational approach to convert mouse embryonic fibroblasts to hepatocytes and suggest that this mechanism-driven approach may be generalized for other cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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23. p-Type doping of diamond films with a novel organoboron source
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Yuxiang Yao, Weiqi Zhou, Gen Chen, Ruiheng Wang, Shengyong Yu, Jing Guo, and Xiaohua Zhang
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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Chemistry ,Material properties of diamond ,Doping ,General Engineering ,Analytical chemistry ,Diamond ,chemistry.chemical_element ,General Chemistry ,Chemical vapor deposition ,engineering.material ,symbols.namesake ,Carbon film ,engineering ,symbols ,General Materials Science ,Thin film ,Boron ,Raman spectroscopy - Abstract
p-Type polycrystalline diamond films were prepared by hot-filament CVD method using a liquid cyclic organic borinate ester as the doping source. The obtained films were identified as diamond films by means of SEM and Raman spectroscopy. The resistivity of the doped films can be adjusted by changing the temperature of the boron source.
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24. Erratum: Corrigendum: The oncogene c-Jun impedes somatic cell reprogramming
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Andrew P. Hutchins, Jing Chen, Duanqing Pei, Hongjie Yao, Qingkai Han, Jiekai Chen, Hong Song, Dongwei Li, Jing Liu, Hongling Wu, Jiaqi Yang, Yongqiang Chen, Lin Guo, You Chen, Xiaoshan Wang, Wei He, Zhiwei Zhou, Shengyong Yu, Junqi Kuang, Kaimeng Huang, Tianran Peng, Haoyu Wu, Xuejia Li, Guangjin Pan, Shangtao Cao, Baojian Liao, He Liu, Meixiu Peng, and Bei Wei
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medicine.anatomical_structure ,Oncogene ,Somatic cell ,Cell ,c-jun ,medicine ,Cancer research ,Cell Biology ,Biology ,Bioinformatics ,Reprogramming ,Cell biology - Abstract
Nat. Cell Biol. 17, 856–867 (2015); published online 22 June 2015; corrected after print 10 August 2015 In the version of this Article originally published, panels from Fig. 8e were mistakenly reproduced as Fig. 6g. The correct panels for Fig. 6g (KS/Jdp2-iPSC) are shown here and have been amended in all online versions of the Article.
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