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ArticleThe EMBO journal2024

Two distinct waves of transcriptome and translatome changes drive Drosophila germline stem cell differentiation.

Tamsin J Samuels, Jinghua Gui, Daniel Gebert, Felipe Karam Teixeira

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tamsin J Samuels *Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3EH, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4670-1139
Jinghua Gui *Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3EH, Cambridge, UK.
Daniel GebertDepartment of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3EH, Cambridge, UK.
Felipe Karam TeixeiraDepartment of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3EH, Cambridge, UK. fk319@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7651-1657
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tight control of fate transitions during stem cell differentiation is essential for proper tissue development and maintenance. However, the challenges in studying sparsely distributed adult stem cells in a systematic manner have hindered efforts to identify how the multilayered regulation of gene expression programs orchestrates stem cell differentiation in vivo. Here, we synchronised Drosophila female germline stem cell (GSC) differentiation in vivo to perform in-depth transcriptome and translatome analyses at high temporal resolution. This characterisation revealed widespread and dynamic changes in mRNA level, promoter usage, exon inclusion, and translation efficiency. Transient expression of the master regulator, Bam, drives a first wave of expression changes, primarily modifying the cell cycle program. Surprisingly, as Bam levels recede, differentiating cells return to a remarkably stem cell-like transcription and translation program, with a few crucial changes feeding into a second phase driving terminal differentiation to form the oocyte. Altogether, these findings reveal that rather than a unidirectional accumulation of changes, the in vivo differentiation of stem cells relies on distinctly regulated and developmentally sequential waves.

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DrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsAnimalsCell DifferentiationDrosophila melanogasterGerm CellsTranscriptomeDrosophila ProteinsDifferentiationDrosophilaGermlineTranscriptionTranslation

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PMID38480936
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