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ArticleNature communications2025

Maternal PRDM10 activates essential genes for oocyte-to-embryo transition.

Michelle K Y Seah, Brenda Y Han, Yan Huang, Louise J H Rasmussen, Andrina J Stäubli, Judith Bello-Rodríguez, Andrew Chi-Ho Chan, Maxime Gasnier, Heike Wollmann, Ernesto Guccione and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Mouse and human embryonic genome activation initiate at the one-cell stage.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Michelle K Y SeahInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.
Brenda Y HanInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3212-875X
Yan HuangInstitute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-4767
Louise J H RasmussenInstitute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Andrina J StäubliInstitute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Judith Bello-RodríguezDNRF Center for Chromosome Stability, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Andrew Chi-Ho ChanDNRF Center for Chromosome Stability, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Maxime GasnierInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.
Heike WollmannNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ernesto GuccioneCenter for OncoGenomics and Innovative Therapeutics (COGIT) Department of Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. ernesto.guccione@mssm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7764-5307
Daniel M MesserschmidtInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore. danielm@sund.ku.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2022-4696

Funding

Conduits: Mount Sinai Health System Translational Science HubUL1TR004419 · NCATS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Rosalind J Wright · 2022 to 2026
$46.4M
THE TISCH CANCER INSTITUTE - CANCER CENTER SUPPORT GRANTP30CA196521 · NCI · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Ramon E Parsons · 2015 to 2026
$35.4M
FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PRDM10-ZN FINGER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IN EARLY MAMMALIAN DEVELOPMENTR01HD102385 · NICHD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI GUCCIONE, ERNESTO · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR004419NCI NIH HHS P30 CA196521NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD102385U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) R01HD102385
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PR/SET domain-containing (PRDM) proteins are metazoan-specific transcriptional regulators that play diverse roles in mammalian development and disease. Several members such as PRDM1, PRDM14 and PRDM9, have been implicated in germ cell specification and homoeostasis and are essential to fertility-related processes. Others, such as PRDM14, PRDM15 and PRDM10 play a role in early embryogenesis and embryonic stem cell maintenance. Here, we describe the first PRDM family member with a maternal effect. Absence of maternal Prdm10 results in catastrophic failure of oocyte-to-embryo transition and complete arrest at the 2-cell stage. We describe multiple defects in oocytes, zygotes and 2-cell stage embryos relating to the failure to accumulate PRDM10 target gene transcripts in the egg. Transcriptomic analysis and integration of genome-wide chromatin-binding data reveals new and essential PRDM10 targets, including the cytoskeletal protein encoding gene Septin11. We demonstrate that the failure to express maternal Septin11, in the absence of maternal PRDM10, disrupts Septin-complex assembly at the polar body extrusion site in MII oocytes. Our study sheds light into the essentiality of maternal PRDM10, the requirement of the maternal Septin-complex and the likely evolutionary conservation of this regulatory axis in human female germ cells.

Indexed as

Embryo, MammalianEmbryonic DevelopmentGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenes, EssentialOocytesTranscription FactorsAnimalsFemaleMaleMiceMice, KnockoutZygoteTranscription Factors

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PMID39994175
PMCPMC11850896

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