Critical role of transient activation of human endogenous retroviruses during reprogramming toward pluripotency (RNA-Seq)
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AccessionGSE56568
TitleCritical role of transient activation of human endogenous retroviruses during reprogramming toward pluripotency (RNA-Seq)
DescriptionWe recently showed that some human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) clones were defective in neural differentiation and were marked with the activation of long term repeats (LTRs) of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs). We herein demonstrated that these LTRs were transiently overexpressed during the generation of iPSCs and contributed to reprogramming. When the generation of iPSCs was completed, LTRs were re-suppressed to levels similar to those in human ES cells. However, differentiation-defective iPSC clones maintained high LTR expression levels, which indicated that these clones failed to complete reprogramming. lincRNA-RoR, a long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) that was previously shown to support the induction and maintenance of pluripotency, was detected among the LTR-driven transcripts. Short hairpin RNAs against the conserved sequence in LTRs or lincRNA-RoR markedly reduced the efficiency of iPSC generation. Reprogramming factors including OCT3/4, SOX2, and KLF4 bound to most LTRs. The expression of KLF4 was low in normal iPSC clones, but remained high in differentiation-defective clones. The forced expression of KLF4 in human embryonic stem cells led to the activation of LTRs and defects in neural differentiation. These results demonstrated that the transient overexpression of KLF4/LTR/lincRNA-RoR played crucial roles in reprogramming toward pluripotency in humans, whereas a failure in its re-silence resulted in differentiation defects.
Landing Pagehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE56568
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ARCHS4
Published September 2017
ARCHS4 provides access to gene counts from HiSeq 2000 and HiSeq 2500 platforms for human and mouse experiments from GEO ...
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Clustergrammer
Published October 2017
Web-based tool for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional data as interactive and shareable heatmaps
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Interactive heatmap visualization of RNA-seq dataset GSE56568
ARCHS4, Clustergrammer
Highly interactive web-based heatmap visualization of the top 500 most variable genes in t...
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