期刊
DEVELOPMENT
卷 149, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.200226
关键词
Cell interaction; SynNotch; Pluripotent stem cells; Cell engineering; Patterning
资金
- Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship [WT103789AIA]
- Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship [WT100133]
- University of Edinburgh
Cell-cell interactions play a crucial role in early development, but studying these processes is challenging due to a lack of efficient analysis tools. In this study, we introduce a new technology called SyNPL, which allows us to investigate cell-cell interactions in pluripotent cells and chimeric embryos. The system utilizes engineered "sender" and "receiver" cells to report these interactions and can be customized to program differentiation decisions and promote neuronal differentiation.
Cell-cell interactions govern differentiation and cell competition in pluripotent cells during early development, but the investigation of such processes is hindered by a lack of efficient analysis tools. Here, we introduce SyNPL: clonal pluripotent stem cell lines that employ optimised Synthetic Notch (SynNotch) technology to report cell-cell interactions between engineered `sender' and `receiver' cells in cultured pluripotent cells and chimaeric mouse embryos. A modular design makes it straightforward to adapt the system for programming differentiation decisions non-cell-autonomously in receiver cells in response to direct contact with sender cells. We demonstrate the utility of this system by enforcing neuronal differentiation at the boundary between two cell populations. In summary, we provide a new adaptation of SynNotch technology that could be used to identify cell interactions and to profile changes in gene or protein expression that result from direct cell-cell contact with defined cell populations in culture and in early embryos, and that can be customised to generate synthetic patterning of cell fate decisions.
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