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STEM CELL REPORTS
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 1818-1831Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2021.05.016
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- Bioland Laboratory (Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory)
- Wellcome Trust Fellowship [WT101861]
- BBSRC [BB/R018588/1]
- MRC [MR/R017735/1]
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
- Wellcome Trust [203151/Z/16/Z]
- UKRI Medical Research Council [MC_PC_17230]
- BBSRC [BB/R018588/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/R017735/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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OCT4 is essential for maintaining naive pluripotent stem cells, affecting the expression of key pluripotency factors. NANOG is capable of binding to the genome in the absence of OCT4 and this binding is enhanced, while the active enhancer-associated histone mark H3K27ac is depleted globally.
The pluripotency factor OCT4 is essential for the maintenance of naive pluripotent stem cells in vitro and in vivo. However, the specific role of OCT4 in this process remains unknown. Here, we developed a rapid protein-level OCT4 depletion system that demonstrates that the immediate downstream response to loss of OCT4 is reduced expression of key pluripotency factors. Our data show a requirement for OCT4 for the efficient transcription of several key pluripotency factors and suggest that expression of trophectoderm markers is a subsequent event. In addition, we find that NANOG is able to bind to the genome in the absence of OCT4, and this binding is in fact enhanced. Globally, however, the active enhancer-associated histone mark H3K27ac is depleted. Our work establishes that, while OCT4 is required for the maintenance of the naive transcription factor network, at a normal embryonic stem cell levels it antagonizes this network through inhibition of NANOG binding.
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