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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 126, Issue 5, Pages 1093-1098Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.118273
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Embryonic stem cell; Pluripotency; Self-renewal; LIF; Stat3; Gbx2; Reprogramming
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- California Institute for Regenerative Medicine New Faculty Award II [RN2-00938-1]
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Activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) by leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) maintains mouse embryonic stem cell (mESC) self-renewal and also facilitates reprogramming to ground state pluripotency. Exactly how LIF/Stat3 signaling exerts these effects, however, remains elusive. We identified gastrulation brain homeobox 2 (Gbx2) as a LIF/Stat3 downstream target that, when overexpressed, allows long-term expansion of undifferentiated mESCs in the absence of LIF/Stat3 signaling. Elevated Gbx2 expression also enhanced reprogramming of mouse embryonic fibroblasts to induced pluripotent stem cells. Moreover, overexpression of Gbx2 was sufficient to reprogram epiblast stem cells to ground state ESCs. Our results reveal a novel function of Gbx2 in mESC reprogramming and LIF/Stat3-mediated self-renewal.
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