Catalog of gene expression in adult neural stem cells and their in vivo microenvironment.
Stem cells generally reside in a stem cell microenvironment, where cues for self-renewal and differentiation are present. However, the genetic program underlying stem cell proliferation and multipotency is poorly understood. Transcriptome analysis of stem cells and their in vivo microenvironment is one way of uncovering the unique stemness properties and provides a framework for the elucidation of stem cell function. Here, we characterize the gene expression profile of the in vivo neural stem cell microenvironment in the lateral ventricle wall of adult mouse brain and of in vitro proliferating neural stem cells. We have also analyzed an Lhx2-expressing hematopoietic-stem-cell-like cell line in order to define the transcriptome of a well-characterized and pure cell population with stem cell characteristics. We report the generation, assembly and annotation of 50,792 high-quality 5'-end expressed sequence tag sequences. We further describe a shared expression of 1065 transcripts by all three stem cell libraries and a large overlap with previously published gene expression signatures for neural stem/progenitor cells and other multipotent stem cells. The sequences and cDNA clones obtained within this framework provide a comprehensive resource for the analysis of genes in adult stem cells that can accelerate future stem cell research.
Williams
Cecilia
C
School of Biotechnology, Department of Gene Technology, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Wirta
Valtteri
V
Meletis
Konstantinos
K
Wikström
Lilian
L
Carlsson
Leif
L
Frisén
Jonas
J
Lundeberg
Joakim
J
D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D033481:Chromosomes, Mammalian / Q000235:genetics; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D015870:Gene Expression; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015723:Gene Library; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D020547:Lateral Ventricles / Q000166:cytology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D046509:Tissue Culture Techniques