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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Louise Hyslop, Professor Miodrag Stojkovic, Professor Lyle Armstrong, Theresia Walter, Petra Stojkovic, Professor Mary Herbert, Professor Alison Murdoch, Professor Tom Strachan, Professor Majlinda LakoORCiD
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The homeobox transcription factor Nanog has been proposed to play a crucial role in the maintenance of the undifferentiated state of murine embryonic stem cells. A human counterpart, NANOG, has been identified, but its function and localization have not hitherto been described. We have used a combination of RNA interference and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction to study NANOG in human embryonic stem and embryonic carcinoma cells. Transfection of NANOG-specific small interfering RNAs reduced levels of NANOG transcript and protein and induced activation of the extraembryonic endoderm-associated genes GATA4, GATA6, LAMININ B1, and AFP as well as upregulation of trophectoderm-associated genes CDX2, GATA2, hCG-alpha, and ACG-beta. Immunostaining of preimplantation human embryos showed that NANOG was expressed in the inner cell mass of expanded blastocysts but not in earlier-stage embryos, consistent with a role in the maintenance of pluripotency. Taken together, our findings suggest that NANOG acts as a gate-keeper of pluripotency in human embryonic stem and carcinoma cells by preventing their differentiation to extraembryonic endoderm and trophectoderm lineages. © AlphaMed Press.
Author(s): Hyslop L, Stojkovic M, Armstrong L, Walter T, Stojkovic P, Przyborski S, Herbert M, Murdoch A, Strachan T, Lako M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Stem Cells
Year: 2005
Volume: 23
Issue: 8
Pages: 1035-1043
Print publication date: 01/09/2005
ISSN (print): 1066-5099
ISSN (electronic): 1549-4918
Publisher: AlphaMed Press, Inc.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1634/stemcells.2005-0080
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2005-0080
PubMed id: 15983365
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