PMID- 24929238 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140919 LR - 20220408 IS - 1095-564X (Electronic) IS - 0012-1606 (Linking) VI - 392 IP - 2 DP - 2014 Aug 15 TI - Nanog co-regulated by Nodal/Smad2 and Oct4 is required for pluripotency in developing mouse epiblast. PG - 182-92 LID - S0012-1606(14)00298-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.06.002 [doi] AB - Nanog, a core pluripotency factor, is required for stabilizing pluripotency of inner cell mass (ICM) and embryonic stem cells (ESCs), and survival of primordial germ cells in mice. Here, we have addressed function and regulation of Nanog in epiblasts of postimplantation mouse embryos by conditional knockdown (KD), chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) using in vivo epiblasts, and protein interaction with the Nanog promoter in vitro. Differentiation of Nanog-KD epiblasts demonstrated requirement for Nanog in stabilization of pluripotency. Nanog expression in epiblast is directly regulated by Nodal/Smad2 pathway in a visceral endoderm-dependent manner. Notably, Nanog promoters switch from Oct4/Esrrb in ICM/ESCs to Oct4/Smad2 in epiblasts. Smad2 directly associates with Oct4 to form Nanog promoting protein complex. Collectively, these data demonstrate that Nanog plays a key role in stabilizing Epiblast pluripotency mediated by Nodal/Smad2 signaling, which is involved in Nanog promoter switching in early developing embryos. CI - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Sun, Liang Tso AU - Sun LT AD - Department of Stem Cell Engineering, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. FAU - Yamaguchi, Shinpei AU - Yamaguchi S AD - Department of Stem Cell Engineering, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. FAU - Hirano, Kunio AU - Hirano K AD - Department of Stem Cell Engineering, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. FAU - Ichisaka, Tomoko AU - Ichisaka T AD - Department of Reprogramming Science, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan. FAU - Kuroda, Takao AU - Kuroda T AD - Laboratory of Neural Differentiation, Graduate School of Brain Science, Doshisha University, Kyoto 619-0225, Japan. FAU - Tada, Takashi AU - Tada T AD - Department of Stem Cell Engineering, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. Electronic address: ttada@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140612 PL - United States TA - Dev Biol JT - Developmental biology JID - 0372762 RN - 0 (Homeodomain Proteins) RN - 0 (Nanog Homeobox Protein) RN - 0 (Nanog protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Nodal Protein) RN - 0 (Nodal protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Octamer Transcription Factor-3) RN - 0 (Pou5f1 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Smad2 Protein) RN - 0 (Smad2 protein, mouse) RN - EC 1.13.12.- (Luciferases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Line MH - Chromatin Immunoprecipitation MH - Gene Knockdown Techniques MH - Germ Layers/*embryology/metabolism MH - Homeodomain Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - Luciferases MH - Mice MH - *Models, Biological MH - Nanog Homeobox Protein MH - Nodal Protein/metabolism MH - Octamer Transcription Factor-3/genetics/metabolism MH - Pluripotent Stem Cells/metabolism/*physiology MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Smad2 Protein/genetics/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - Epiblast OT - Nanog OT - Nodal OT - Oct4 OT - Pluripotency OT - Smad2 EDAT- 2014/06/15 06:00 MHDA- 2014/09/23 06:00 CRDT- 2014/06/15 06:00 PHST- 2014/02/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/05/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/06/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/06/15 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/06/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/09/23 06:00 [medline] AID - S0012-1606(14)00298-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.06.002 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dev Biol. 2014 Aug 15;392(2):182-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.06.002. Epub 2014 Jun 12.