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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

Regulation of both transcription and RNA turnover contribute to germline specification.

Kun Tan, Miles F Wilkinson

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kun TanDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8567-7795
Miles F WilkinsonDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6416-3058
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

Spermatogonial Stem Cell Establishment and RegulationR01GM119128 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TAN, KUN, WILKINSON, MILES FROME · 2016 to 2025
$3.6M
The Role of NMD in Embryonic DevelopmentR01HD093846 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WILKINSON, MILES FROME · 2018 to 2022
$2.3M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD093846NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM119128
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nuanced mechanisms driving primordial germ cells (PGC) specification remain incompletely understood since genome-wide transcriptional regulation in developing PGCs has previously only been defined indirectly. Here, using SLAMseq analysis, we determined genome-wide transcription rates during the differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to form epiblast-like (EpiLC) cells and ultimately PGC-like cells (PGCLCs). This revealed thousands of genes undergoing bursts of transcriptional induction and rapid shut-off not detectable by RNAseq analysis. Our SLAMseq datasets also allowed us to infer RNA turnover rates, which revealed thousands of mRNAs stabilized and destabilized during PGCLC specification. mRNAs tend to be unstable in ESCs and then are progressively stabilized as they differentiate. For some classes of genes, mRNA turnover regulation collaborates with transcriptional regulation, but these processes oppose each other in a surprisingly high frequency of genes. To test whether regulated mRNA turnover has a physiological role in PGC development, we examined three genes that we found were regulated by RNA turnover: Sox2, Klf2 and Ccne1. Circumvention of their regulated RNA turnover severely impaired the ESC-to-EpiLC and EpiLC-to-PGCLC transitions. Our study demonstrates the functional importance of regulated RNA stability in germline development and provides a roadmap of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation during germline specification.

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Germ CellsRNAAnimalsCell DifferentiationEmbryonic Stem CellsGerm LayersMiceRNA, MessengerRNA StabilityTranscription, GeneticRNARNA, Messenger

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PMID35776114
PMCPMC9303369
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