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ArticleStem cell reports2025

Tracking and mitigating imprint erasure during induction of naive human pluripotency at single-cell resolution.

Laura A Fischer, Brittany Meyer, Monica Reyes, Joseph E Zemke, Jessica K Harrison, Kyoung-Mi Park, Ting Wang, Harald Jüppner, Sabine Dietmann, Thorold W Theunissen

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Article in Stem cell reports, 2025. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Laura A FischerDepartment of Developmental Biology and Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Brittany MeyerDepartment of Developmental Biology and Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Monica ReyesEndocrine Unit, Department of Medicine and Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Joseph E ZemkeDepartment of Developmental Biology and Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Jessica K HarrisonDepartment of Genetics, The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Kyoung-Mi ParkDepartment of Developmental Biology and Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Ting WangDepartment of Genetics, The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Harald JüppnerEndocrine Unit, Department of Medicine and Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Sabine DietmannDepartment of Developmental Biology and Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Institute for Informatics (I(2)), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Thorold W TheunissenDepartment of Developmental Biology and Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: t.theunissen@wustl.edu.

Funding

Washington University Center for Cellular ImagingP30CA091842 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI AIMEE S JAMES · 2001 to 2026
$128.0M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGYT32GM007067 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TRUE-KROB, HEATHER L · 1985 to 2020
$20.4M
INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING GRANT IN GENOMIC SCIENCET32HG000045 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL R BRENT, Barak A Cohen · 1997 to 2026
$8.4M
PTH/PTHRP RECEPTOR DEFECTS IN PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISMR01DK046718 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI JUEPPNER, HARALD W. · 1993 to 2024
$6.0M
Resolving epigenetic instability during pluripotent state transitions: a roadmap for exploiting the biomedical potential of dynamic human stem cell statesDP2GM137418 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI THEUNISSEN, THOROLD · 2019 to 2019
$2.4M
Resolving epigenetic instability during pluripotent state transitions: a roadmap for exploiting the biomedical potential of dynamic human stem cell statesR35GM153439 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Thorold Theunissen · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA091842NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG000045NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK046718NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM137418NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153439NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007067
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Naive human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) model the pre-implantation epiblast. However, parent-specific epigenetic marks (imprints) are eroded in naive hPSCs, which represents an important deviation from the epiblast in vivo. To track the dynamics of imprint erasure during naive resetting in real time, we established a dual-colored fluorescent reporter at both alleles of the imprinted SNRPN locus. During primed-to-naive resetting, SNRPN expression becomes biallelic in most naive cells, and biallelic SNRPN expression is irreversible upon re-priming. We utilized this live-cell reporter to evaluate chemical and genetic strategies to minimize imprint erasure. Decreasing the level of MEK/ERK inhibition or overexpressing the KRAB zinc-finger protein ZFP57 protected a subset of imprints during naive resetting. Combining these two strategies protected imprint levels to a further extent than either strategy alone. This study offers an experimental tool to track and enhance imprint stability during transitions between human pluripotent states in vitro.

Indexed as

Genomic ImprintingPluripotent Stem CellsSingle-Cell AnalysisAllelesCell DifferentiationEpigenesis, GeneticHumansDNA methylationFGF signalingimprintingnaive pluripotencySNRPNstem cellsZFP57

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PMID39952244
PMCPMC11960550

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