title: Histone variant H2A.X deposition pattern serves as a functional epigenetic mark for distinguishing the developmental potentials of iPSCs.
abstract: For future application of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, the ability to assess the overall quality of iPSC clones will be an important issue. Here we show that the histone variant H2A.X is a functional marker that can distinguish the developmental potentials of mouse iPSC lines. We found that H2A.X is specifically targeted to and negatively regulates extraembryonic lineage gene expression in embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and prevents trophectoderm lineage differentiation. ESC-specific H2A.X deposition patterns are faithfully recapitulated in iPSCs that support the development of "all-iPS" animals via tetraploid complementation, the most stringent test available of iPSC quality. In contrast, iPSCs that fail to support all-iPS embryonic development show aberrant H2A.X deposition, upregulation of extraembryonic lineage genes, and a predisposition to extraembryonic differentiation. Thus, our work has highlighted an epigenetic mechanism for maintaining cell lineage commitment in ESCs and iPSCs that can be used to distinguish the quality of iPSC lines.
authors.affiliation: Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Yifei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Duancheng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Zito
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.affiliation: Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Martik
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tahmasian
authors.affiliation: Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Shahin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rafii
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stadtfeld
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hochedlinger
authors.affiliation: Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: andrew.xiao@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000235:genetics; D002460:Cell Line; D019070:Cell Lineage / Q000235:genetics; D002999:Clone Cells; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D005260:Female; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism*; D057026:Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D008954:Models, Biological; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015854:Up-Regulation / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D006657:Histones; C475961:gamma-H2AX protein, mouse