Journal
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Volume 3, Issue 2-3, Pages 126-141Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2009.07.001
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- Adult Stem Cell Platform Fund [P015]
- Australian Stem Cell Centre [13017, P009]
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WNT and bone morphogenetic protein (BM,P) signaling are known to stimutate hemogenesis from pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells. However, osteochondrogenic mesoderm was generated effectively when BMP signaling is kept to a low level, while WNT signaling was strongly activated. When mesoderm specification from ES cells was exogenous factor dependent, WNT3a addition supported the generation of cardiomyogenic cells expressing lateral plate/extraembryonic mesoderm genes, and this process involved endogenous BMP activities. Exogenous BMP4 showed a similar effect that depended on endogenous WNT activities. However, neither factor induced robust chondrogenic activity. In support, ES cell differentiation in the presence of either WNT3a or BMP4 was associated with elevated levels of both Bmp and Wnt mRNAs, which appeared to provide sufficient levels of active BMPs and WNTs to promote the nonchondrogenic mesoderm specification. The osteochondrogenic mesoderm expressed PDGFR alpha, which also expressed genes that mark somite and rostral presomitic mesoderm. A strong WNT signaling was required for generating the mesodermal progeny, white approximately 50- to 100-fold lower concentration of WNT3a was sufficient for specifying axial mes(end)oderm. Thus, depending on the close and cofactor (BMP), WNT signaling stimulates the generation of different biological activities and specification of different types of mesodermal progeny from ES cells. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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