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CELL DEATH DISCOVERY
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41420-022-00961-2
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- MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan)-supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities Grant [S1411042]
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant [18K07250]
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K07250] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Oxidative stress plays a crucial role in cell differentiation. We have developed a new system to control the level of endogenous ROS in the initial stage of differentiation in human iPS cells and found that endogenous ROS production suppresses endoderm differentiation.
Oxidative stress plays a pivotal role in the differentiation and proliferation of cells and programmed cell death. However, studies on the role of oxidative stress in differentiation have mainly employed the detection of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during differentiation or generated by ROS inducers. Therefore, it is difficult to clarify the significance of endogenous ROS production in the differentiation of human cells. We developed a system to control the intracellular level of ROS in the initial stage of differentiation in human iPS cells. By introducing a specific substitution (I69E) into the SDHC protein, a component of the mitochondrial respiratory chain complex, the endogenous ROS level increased. This caused impaired endoderm differentiation of iPS cells, and this impairment was reversed by overproduction of mitochondrial-targeted catalase, an anti-oxidant enzyme. Expression of tumor-related FOXC1 transcription factor increased transiently as early as 4 h after ROS-overproduction in the initial stage of differentiation. Knockdown of FOXC1 markedly improved impaired endoderm differentiation, suggesting that endogenous ROS production in the early differentiation state suppresses endoderm differentiation via transient FOXC1 expression.
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