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CELL REPORTS
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 905-918Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.02.018
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- NIH [DP2OD001686, P01 GM099134]
- CIRM [RN1-00564, RB3-05080]
- Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA
- National Research Service [AG039179]
- Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center Executive Advisory Board
- NWO
- ERC
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X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is a dynamically regulated developmental process with inactivation and reactivation accompanying the loss and gain of pluripotency, respectively. A functional relationship between pluripotency and lack of XCI has been suggested, whereby pluripotency transcription factors repress the master regulator of XCI, the noncoding transcript Xist, by binding to its first intron (intron 1). To test this model, we have generated intron 1 mutant embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and two independent mouse models. We found that Xist's repression in ESCs, its transcriptional upregulation upon differentiation, and its silencing upon reprogramming to pluripotency are not dependent on intron 1. Although we observed subtle effects of intron 1 deletion on the randomness of XCI and in the absence of the antisense transcript Tsix in differentiating ESCs, these have little relevance in vivo because mutant mice do not deviate from Mendelian ratios of allele transmission. Altogether, our findings demonstrate that intron 1 is dispensable for the developmental dynamics of Xist expression.
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