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ArticleScience China. Life sciences2023

Highly efficient generation of blastocyst-like structures from spliceosomes-repressed mouse totipotent blastomere-like cells.

Pengfei Zhang, Xuzhao Zhai, Boyan Huang, Shu Sun, WenJing Wang, Man Zhang

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Pengfei Zhang *GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, The Guangdong-HongKong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510005, China.
Xuzhao Zhai *GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, The Guangdong-HongKong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510005, China.
Boyan Huang *GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, The Guangdong-HongKong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510005, China.
Shu SunGMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, The Guangdong-HongKong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510005, China.
WenJing WangCenter for Cell Lineage and Atlas (CCLA), Bioland Laboratory, Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 510005, China.
Man ZhangGMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, The Guangdong-HongKong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510005, China. zhang_man@gzlab.ac.cn.

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Abstract

Mammalian embryogenesis begins with a totipotent zygote. Blastocyst-like structures can be captured by aggregated cells with extended pluripotent properties in a three-dimensional (3D) culture system. However, the efficiency of generating blastoids is low, and it remains unclear whether other reported totipotent-like stem cells retain a similar capacity. In this study, we demonstrated that spliceosomal repression-induced totipotent blastomere-like cells (TBLCs) form blastocyst-like structures within around 80% of all microwells. In addition, we generated blastoids initiating from a single TBLC. TBLC-blastoids express specific markers of constituent cell lineages of a blastocyst and resemble blastocyst in cell-lineage allocation. Moreover, single-cell RNA sequencing revealed that TBLC-blastoids share a similar transcriptional profile to natural embryos, albeit composed of fewer primitive endoderm-like cells. Furthermore, TBLC-blastoids can develop beyond the implantation stage in vitro and induce decidualization in vivo. In summary, our findings provided an alternative cell type to efficiently generate blastoids for the study of early mouse embryogenesis.

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BlastomeresSpliceosomesAnimalsBlastocystCell DifferentiationCell LineageEmbryo, MammalianEmbryonic DevelopmentMammalsMiceblastoidsearly embryogenesisTBLCstotipotent

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