PMID- 23582324 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130617 LR - 20230209 IS - 1097-4172 (Electronic) IS - 0092-8674 (Print) IS - 0092-8674 (Linking) VI - 153 IP - 2 DP - 2013 Apr 11 TI - Exit from pluripotency is gated by intracellular redistribution of the bHLH transcription factor Tfe3. PG - 335-47 LID - S0092-8674(13)00334-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.cell.2013.03.012 [doi] AB - Factors that sustain self-renewal of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are well described. In contrast, the machinery regulating exit from pluripotency is ill defined. In a large-scale small interfering RNA (siRNA) screen, we found that knockdown of the tumor suppressors Folliculin (Flcn) and Tsc2 prevent ESC commitment. Tsc2 lies upstream of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), whereas Flcn acts downstream and in parallel. Flcn with its interaction partners Fnip1 and Fnip2 drives differentiation by restricting nuclear localization and activity of the bHLH transcription factor Tfe3. Conversely, enforced nuclear Tfe3 enables ESCs to withstand differentiation conditions. Genome-wide location and functional analyses showed that Tfe3 directly integrates into the pluripotency circuitry through transcriptional regulation of Esrrb. These findings identify a cell-intrinsic rheostat for destabilizing ground-state pluripotency to allow lineage commitment. Congruently, stage-specific subcellular relocalization of Tfe3 suggests that Flcn-Fnip1/2 contributes to developmental progression of the pluripotent epiblast in vivo. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Betschinger, Joerg AU - Betschinger J AD - Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK. jb579@cam.ac.uk FAU - Nichols, Jennifer AU - Nichols J FAU - Dietmann, Sabine AU - Dietmann S FAU - Corrin, Philip D AU - Corrin PD FAU - Paddison, Patrick J AU - Paddison PJ FAU - Smith, Austin AU - Smith A LA - eng SI - GEO/GSE39815 GR - 079249/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom GR - G1001028/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - G1100526/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - MC_PC_12009/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Cell JT - Cell JID - 0413066 RN - 0 (Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins) RN - 0 (Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (Carrier Proteins) RN - 0 (FNIP1 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (MAPO1 protein, mouse) RN - 136896-33-8 (Tcfe3 protein, mouse) RN - 2DI9HA706A (Estrone) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (mTOR protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM CIN - Cell. 2013 Apr 11;153(2):281-3. PMID: 23582317 CIN - Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2013 Jun;14(6):324. PMID: 23657495 MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/metabolism MH - Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/*metabolism MH - Carrier Proteins/metabolism MH - *Cell Differentiation MH - Embryonic Stem Cells/*cytology/metabolism MH - Estrone/genetics/metabolism MH - *Gene Regulatory Networks MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism PMC - PMC3661979 EDAT- 2013/04/16 06:00 MHDA- 2013/06/19 06:00 PMCR- 2013/04/11 CRDT- 2013/04/16 06:00 PHST- 2012/08/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/01/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/03/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/04/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/04/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/06/19 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/04/11 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0092-8674(13)00334-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.cell.2013.03.012 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell. 2013 Apr 11;153(2):335-47. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.03.012.