Conditional knockdown of Nanog induces apoptotic cell death in mouse migrating primordial germ cells

Shinpei Yamaguchi; Kazuki Kurimoto; Yukihiro Yabuta; Hiroyuki Sasaki; Norio Nakatsuji; Mitinori Saitou; Takahashi Tada

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Conditional knockdown of Nanog induces apoptotic cell death in mouse migrating primordial germ cells

Shinpei Yamaguchi, Kazuki Kurimoto, Yukihiro Yabuta, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Norio Nakatsuji, Mitinori Saitou, Takahashi Tada

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The pluripotency factor Nanog is expressed in peri-implantation embryos and primordial germ cells (PGCs). Nanog-deficient mouse embryos die soon after implantation. To explore the function of Nanog in germ cells, Nanog RNA was conditionally knocked down in vivo by shRNA. Nanog shRNA transgenic (NRi-Tg) mice were generated through the formation of germline chimeras with NRi-Tg embryonic stem cells. In E12.5 Cre-induced ER-Cre/NRi-Tg and TNAP-Cre/NRi-Tg double-transgenic embryos, the number of alkaline phosphatase-positive and SSEA1-positive PGCs decreased significantly. In the E9.5 and E10.5 migrating Nanog-knockdown PGCs, TUNEL-positive apoptotic cell death became prominent in vivo and in vitro, despite Oct4 expression. Single-cell microarray analysis of E10.5 Nanog-knockdown PGCs revealed significant up- and downregulation of a substantial number of genes, including Tial1, Id1 and Suz12. These data suggest that Nanog plays a key role in the proliferation and survival of migrating PGCs as a safeguard of the PGC-specific molecular network.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4011-4020
Number of pages	10
Journal	Development
Volume	136
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.041160
Publication status	Published - Sept 25 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Developmental Biology

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