title: Transcriptome analysis of mouse stem cells and early embryos.
abstract: Understanding and harnessing cellular potency are fundamental in biology and are also critical to the future therapeutic use of stem cells. Transcriptome analysis of these pluripotent cells is a first step towards such goals. Starting with sources that include oocytes, blastocysts, and embryonic and adult stem cells, we obtained 249,200 high-quality EST sequences and clustered them with public sequences to produce an index of approximately 30,000 total mouse genes that includes 977 previously unidentified genes. Analysis of gene expression levels by EST frequency identifies genes that characterize preimplantation embryos, embryonic stem cells, and adult stem cells, thus providing potential markers as well as clues to the functional features of these cells. Principal component analysis identified a set of 88 genes whose average expression levels decrease from oocytes to blastocysts, stem cells, postimplantation embryos, and finally to newborn tissues. This can be a first step towards a possible definition of a molecular scale of cellular potency. The sequences and cDNA clones recovered in this work provide a comprehensive resource for genes functioning in early mouse embryos and stem cells. The nonrestricted community access to the resource can accelerate a wide range of research, particularly in reproductive and regenerative medicine.
authors.affiliation: National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001755:Blastocyst / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D019295:Computational Biology; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000378:metabolism*; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D015723:Gene Library; D051379:Mice; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009865:Oocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger