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ArticleStem cell research2014

Hypoxic stress induces, but cannot sustain trophoblast stem cell differentiation to labyrinthine placenta due to mitochondrial insufficiency.

Yufen Xie, Sichang Zhou, Zhongliang Jiang, Jing Dai, Elizabeth E Puscheck, Icksoo Lee, Graham Parker, Maik Hüttemann, Daniel A Rappolee

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Article in Stem cell research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Effects of selenium on the survival and invasion of trophoblasts.Clinical and experimental reproductive medicine · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yufen XieCS Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Sichang ZhouCS Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Program for Reproductive Sciences, Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Zhongliang JiangCS Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Jing DaiCS Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Elizabeth E PuscheckCS Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Program for Reproductive Sciences, Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Icksoo LeeCollege of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do 330-714, Republic of Korea.
Graham ParkerDepartment of Pediatrics and Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA.
Maik HüttemannCenter for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA.
Daniel A RappoleeCS Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Program for Reproductive Sciences, Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA; Institutes for Environmental Health Science, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA; Department of Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada. Electronic address: drappole@med.wayne.edu.
Wayne State University · USDankook University · KRThe Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute · US

Funding

SIGNALING PATHWAYS MEDIATING TROPHOBLAST PROLIFERATIONR01HD040972 · NICHD · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RAPPOLEE, DANIEL ALLEN · 2001 to 2005
$1.4M
AMP-activated protein kinase management will improve oocyte cryopreservationR03HD061431 · NICHD · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RAPPOLEE, DANIEL ALLEN · 2009 to 2010
$152k
NICHD NIH HHS 1R03HD061431 02NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD040972NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD061431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dysfunctional stem cell differentiation into placental lineages is associated with gestational diseases. Of the differentiated lineages available to trophoblast stem cells (TSC), elevated O2 and mitochondrial function are necessary to placental lineages at the maternal-placental surface and important in the etiology of preeclampsia. TSC lineage imbalance leads to embryonic failure during uterine implantation. Stress at implantation exacerbates stem cell depletion by decreasing proliferation and increasing differentiation. In an implantation site O2 is normally ~2%. In culture, exposure to 2% O2 and fibroblast growth factor 4 (FGF4) enabled the highest mouse TSC multipotency and proliferation. In contrast, hypoxic stress (0.5% O2) initiated the most TSC differentiation after 24h despite exposure to FGF4. However, hypoxic stress supported differentiation poorly after 4-7 days, despite FGF4 removal. At all tested O2 levels, FGF4 maintained Warburg metabolism; mitochondrial inactivity and aerobic glycolysis. However, hypoxic stress suppressed mitochondrial membrane potential and maintained low mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (oxidative phosphorylation/OxPhos), and high pyruvate kinase M2 (glycolysis) despite FGF4 removal. Inhibiting OxPhos inhibited optimum differentiation at 20% O2. Moreover, adding differentiation-inducing hyperosmolar stress failed to induce differentiation during hypoxia. Thus, differentiation depended on OxPhos at 20% O2; hypoxic and hyperosmolar stresses did not induce differentiation at 0.5% O2. Hypoxia-limited differentiation and mitochondrial inhibition and activation suggest that differentiation into two lineages of the labyrinthine placenta requires O2>0.5-2% and mitochondrial function. Stress-activated protein kinase increases an early lineage and suppresses later lineages in proportion to the deviation from optimal O2 for multipotency, thus it is the first enzyme reported to prioritize differentiation.

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Cell HypoxiaAdenosine TriphosphateAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCell DifferentiationCell LineageCell ProliferationCells, CulturedDNA-Binding ProteinsElectron Transport Complex IVFemaleFibroblast Growth Factor 4Membrane Potential, MitochondrialMiceMitochondriaMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 8Adenosine TriphosphateBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsElectron Transport Complex IVFibroblast Growth Factor 4Gcm1 protein, mouseHand1 protein, mouseMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 8NeuropeptidesPregnancy ProteinsPyruvate KinaseReactive Oxygen SpeciesTpbpa protein, mouseTranscription Factors

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