PMID- 37354899 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230824 LR - 20240213 IS - 1878-1551 (Electronic) IS - 1534-5807 (Print) IS - 1534-5807 (Linking) VI - 58 IP - 16 DP - 2023 Aug 21 TI - Loss of TJP1 disrupts gastrulation patterning and increases differentiation toward the germ cell lineage in human pluripotent stem cells. PG - 1477-1488.e5 LID - S1534-5807(23)00265-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.05.019 [doi] AB - Biological patterning events that occur early in development establish proper tissue morphogenesis. Identifying the mechanisms that guide these patterning events is necessary in order to understand the molecular drivers of development and disease and to build tissues in vitro. In this study, we use an in vitro model of gastrulation to study the role of tight junctions and apical/basolateral polarity in modulating bone morphogenic protein-4 (BMP4) signaling and gastrulation-associated patterning in colonies of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Disrupting tight junctions via knockdown (KD) of the scaffolding tight junction protein-1 (TJP1, also known as ZO1) allows BMP4 to robustly and ubiquitously activate pSMAD1/5 signaling over time, resulting in loss of the patterning phenotype and marked differentiation bias of pluripotent stem cells to primordial germ cell-like cells (PGCLCs). These findings give important insights into how signaling events are regulated and lead to spatial emergence of diverse cell types in vitro. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Vasic, Ivana AU - Vasic I AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. FAU - Libby, Ashley R G AU - Libby ARG AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Ph.D. Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. FAU - Maslan, Annie AU - Maslan A AD - UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. FAU - Bulger, Emily A AU - Bulger EA AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Ph.D. Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. FAU - Zalazar, David AU - Zalazar D AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. FAU - Krakora Compagno, Martina Z AU - Krakora Compagno MZ AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. FAU - Streets, Aaron AU - Streets A AD - UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. FAU - Tomoda, Kiichiro AU - Tomoda K AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto 606-8397, Japan. FAU - Yamanaka, Shinya AU - Yamanaka S AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto 606-8397, Japan. Electronic address: shinya.yamanaka@gladstone.ucsf.edu. FAU - McDevitt, Todd C AU - McDevitt TC AD - Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: todd.mcdevitt@gladstone.ucsf.edu. LA - eng GR - U01 HL098179/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL114948/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - U01 HL100406/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL130533/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL135358/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - C06 RR018928/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20230623 PL - United States TA - Dev Cell JT - Developmental cell JID - 101120028 RN - 0 (TJP1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Zonula Occludens-1 Protein) SB - IM CIN - Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2023 Aug;24(8):521. PMID: 37400588 MH - Humans MH - Cell Lineage MH - *Gastrulation/physiology MH - Cell Differentiation MH - *Pluripotent Stem Cells MH - Germ Cells MH - Zonula Occludens-1 Protein/genetics/metabolism PMC - PMC10529434 MID - NIHMS1913345 OTO - NOTNLM OT - BMP4 OT - PGCLCs OT - TJP1 OT - cell signaling OT - epiblast OT - gastrulation OT - pSMAD1 OT - tight junctions COIS- Declaration of interests I.V. is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vitra Labs, Inc. K.T. is on the scientific advisory board of I Peace, Inc., without salary. S.Y. is a scientific advisor to iPS Academia Japan, Orizuru Therapeutics, and Altos Labs without salary. T.C.M. is Vice President of Cell Engineering at SanaX. I.V. and T.C.M. are inventors on a patent filing by the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco, relating to high-throughput generation of primordial germ cell-like cells (PGCLCs). EDAT- 2023/06/25 01:08 MHDA- 2023/08/24 06:43 PMCR- 2024/08/21 CRDT- 2023/06/24 18:41 PHST- 2022/09/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/03/17 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/05/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2024/08/21 00:00 [pmc-release] PHST- 2023/08/24 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/06/25 01:08 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/06/24 18:41 [entrez] AID - S1534-5807(23)00265-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.05.019 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dev Cell. 2023 Aug 21;58(16):1477-1488.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.05.019. Epub 2023 Jun 23.