Publications related to Epiblast

Structure and regulation of the myotonic dystrophy kinase-related Cdc42-binding kinase

Protein kinases of the dystonia myotonica protein kinase (DMPK) family are critical regulators of actomyosin contractility in cells. The DMPK kinase MRCK1 is required for the activation of myosin, leading to the develop-ment of cortical tension, apical con ...

CELL PRESS2023

Multimodal characterization of murine gastruloid development

Matthias Lütolf, Alexandre Gauthier Aurèle Mayran, Stefano Davide Vianello, Raphaël Ortiz

Gastruloids are 3D structures generated from pluripotent stem cells recapitulating fundamental principles of embryonic pattern formation. Using single-cell genomic analysis, we provide a resource mapping cell states and types during gastruloid development ...

CELL PRESS2023

An automated do-it-yourself system for dynamic stem cell and organoid culture in standard multi-well plates

Matthias Lütolf, Sebastian Maerkl, Hao-An Hsiung, Zoe Newell Swank, Stefano Davide Vianello, Julia Tischler

We present a low-cost, do-it-yourself system for complexmammalian cell culture under dynamically changing medium formulations by integrating conventional multi-well tissue culture plates with simple microfluidic control and system automation. We demonstrat ...

2022

Differential impact of TGF beta/SMAD signaling activity elicited by Activin A and Nodal on endoderm differentiation of epiblast stem cells

Pierre Osteil

Allocation of cells to an endodermal fate in the gastrulating embryo is driven by Nodal signaling and consequent activation of TGF beta pathway. In vitro methodologies striving to recapitulate the process of endoderm differentiation, however, use TGF beta ...

WILEY2022

In vitro endoderm emergence and self-organisation in the absence of extraembryonic tissues and embryonic architecture

Stefano Davide Vianello

In humans, mice, and other mammals key internal organs such as the gut, the lungs, the pancreas, and the liver all derive from the same embryonic tissue: the endoderm. The development of all of these structures thus depends on a same set of early cells, an ...

EPFL2022

In vitro modeling of early mouse development

Mehmet Ugur Girgin

Previous attempts to recapitulate embryogenesis in a developmentally relevant context started with aggregates composed of a few thousand ESCs, termed embryoid bodies (EB), that upon induction of differentiation reveal a surprising level of autonomous cell ...

EPFL2020

Wnt-controlled sphingolipids modulate Anthrax Toxin Receptor palmitoylation to regulate oriented mitosis in zebrafish

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Laurence Gouzi Abrami

Oriented cell division is a fundamental mechanism to control asymmetric stem cell division, neural tube elongation and body axis extension, among other processes. During zebrafish gastrulation, when the body axis extends, dorsal epiblast cells display divi ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Multi-axial self-organization properties of mouse embryonic stem cells into gastruloids

Denis Duboule, Matthias Lütolf, Leonardo Beccari, Mehmet Ugur Girgin, Anne-Catherine Cossy, Alfonso Martinez Arias

The emergence of multiple axes is an essential element in the establishment of the mammalian body plan. This process takes place shortly after implantation of the embryo within the uterus and relies on the activity of gene regulatory networks that coordina ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

Epiblast-specific loss of HCF-1 leads to failure in anterior-posterior axis specification

Daniel Constam, Winship Herr, Sylvain Frédéric Bessonnard

Mammalian Host-Cell Factor 1 (HCF-1), a transcriptional co-regulator, plays important roles during the cell-division cycle in cell culture, embryogenesis as well as adult tissue. In mice, HCF-1 is encoded by the X-chromosome-linked Hcfc1 gene. Induced Hcfc ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2016

Essential role of the TFIID subunit TAF4 in murine embryogenesis and embryonic stem cell differentiation

Daniel Alpern

TAF4 (TATA-binding protein-associated factor 4) and its paralogue TAF4b are components of the TFIID core module. We inactivated the murine Taf4a gene to address Taf4 function during embryogenesis. Here we show that Taf4a(-/-) embryos survive until E9.5 whe ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Proliferation, Morphology, and Pluripotency of Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Three Different Types of Alginate Beads for Mass Production

Yoji Tabata

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are expected to be an ideal cell source for biomedical applications, but such applications usually require a large number of cells. Suspension culture of iPSC aggregates can offer high cell yields but sometimes result ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Nodal.Gdf1 Heterodimers with Bound Prodomains Enable Serum-independent Nodal Signaling and Endoderm Differentiation

Daniel Constam, Christophe Fuerer

The TGF beta family member Nodal is central to control pluripotent stem cell fate, but its use as a stem cell differentiation factor is limited by low specific activity. During development, Nodal depends on growth and differentiation factor (Gdf)-1 and on ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2014

Anthrax toxin receptor 2a controls mitotic spindle positioning

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Laurence Gouzi Abrami

Oriented mitosis is essential during tissue morphogenesis. The Wnt/planar cell polarity (Wnt/PCP) pathway orients mitosis in a number of developmental systems, including dorsal epiblast cell divisions along the animal-vegetal (A-V) axis during zebrafish ga ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Patterning and shaping the endoderm in vivo and in culture

Anne Grapin-Botton, Marine Marie Kraus

The definitive endoderm (DE) was first defined as the innermost germ layer found in all metazoan embryos. During development, it gives rise to a vast array of specialized epithelial cell types lining the respiratory and digestive systems, and contributes t ...

Elsevier2012

Dual Lineage-Specific Expression of Sox17 During Mouse Embryogenesis

Anne Grapin-Botton, Marine Marie Kraus, Laurence Anne E Lemaire

Sox17 is essential for both endoderm development and fetal hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) maintenance. While endoderm-derived organs are well known to originate from Sox17-expressing cells, it is less certain whether fetal HSCs also originate from Sox17-exp ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Molecular and Functional Characterization of Clonogenic Human Thymic Epithelial Cells

Melissa Maggioni

The thymus is a primary lymphoid organ where bone marrow derived T-cell progenitors come in contact with a unique microenvironment able to sustain their maturation into functional T-cells. This fundamental immunological function of the thymus is supported ...

EPFL2012

The microenvironment patterns the pluripotent mouse epiblast through paracrine Furin and Pace4 proteolytic activities

Daniel Constam, Christophe Fuerer

The fate of pluripotent cells in early mouse embryos is controlled by graded Nodal signals that are activated by the endoproteases Furin and Pace4. Soluble forms of Furin and Pace4 cleave proNodal in vitro and after secretion in transfected cells, but dire ...

2011

The Role of Nodal Processing in Pluripotent Progenitors

Anja Dietze

Nodal and its co-receptors of the EGF-CFC family are essential during chordate development, both to maintain pluripotent progenitor cells and to subsequently coordinate their allocation to the different germ layers. How these distinct Nodal activities are ...

EPFL2011

Wnt Signaling in Pancreas Development and Cancer

Marine Marie Kraus

During early somite stages of development, the broad endoderm-derived foregut and hindgut territories become further subdivided along the antero-posterior axis into organs. One of these organs is the pancreas which serves two major physiological functions: ...

EPFL2010

Imaging proprotein convertase activities and their regulation in the implanting mouse blastocyst

Daniel Constam

Axis formation and allocation of pluripotent progenitor cells to the germ layers are governed by the TGF-β-related Nodal precursor and its secreted proprotein convertases (PCs) Furin and Pace4. However, when and where Furin and Pace4 first become active ha ...

Rockefeller University Press2010