期刊
CELLS TISSUES ORGANS
卷 195, 期 5, 页码 377-391出版社
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000328712
关键词
Embryonic stem cells; Stem cell differentiation; Embryoid bodies; Morphogenesis; Cardiomyogenesis; Mouse
资金
- Austrian Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung [P15303, P11189, P18659]
- Herzfelder'sche Familienstiftung
- Osterreichische National-bank [8437]
- Austrian Federal Ministry of Science [GZ70.078/0002-Pr/472002]
- Hochschuljubilaumsstiftung der Stadt Wien [H933-2003, H-2174/2007, H-1249/2009]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P15303, P18659, P11189] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Aggregation of embryonic stem cells gives rise to embryoid bodies (EBs) which undergo developmental processes reminiscent of early eutherian embryonic development. Development of the three germ layers suggests that gastrulation takes place. In vivo, gastrulation is a highly ordered process but in EBs only few data support the hypothesis that self-organization of differentiating cells leads to morphology, reminiscent of the early gastrula. Here we demonstrate that a timely implantation-like process is a prerequisite for the breaking of the radial symmetry of suspended EBs. Attached to a surface, EBs develop a bilateral symmetry and presumptive mesodermal cells emerge between the center of the EBs and a horseshoe-shaped ridge of cells. The development of an epithelial sheet of cells on one side of the EBs allows us to define an 'anterior' and a 'posterior' end of the EBs. In the mesodermal area, first cardiomyocytes (CMCs) develop mainly next to this epithelial sheet of cells. Development of twice as many CMCs at the 'left' side of the EBs breaks the bilateral symmetry and suggests that cardiomyogenesis reflects a local or temporal asymmetry in EBs. The asymmetric appearance of CMCs but not the development of mesoderm can be disturbed by ectopic expression of the muscle-specific protein Desmin. Later, the bilateral morphology becomes blurred by an apparently chaotic differentiation of many cell types. The absence of comparable structures in aggregates of cardiovascular progenitor cells isolated from the heart demonstrates that the self-organization of cells during a gastrulation-like process is a unique feature of embryonic stem cells. Copyright (C) 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel
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