Retinoic acid promotes formation of chicken (Gallus gallus) spermatogonial stem cells by regulating the ECM-receptor interaction signaling pathway

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Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) are the basis of spermatogenesis. Systematically exploring the critical factors associated with the formation of SSCs will provide new insight to improve the formation efficiency, and their practical application. Here we explore the regulatory mechanism of the ECM-receptor interaction signaling pathway and related genes during differentiation of SSCs in chicken. Firstly, the positive cell rate of SSCs protein marker was detected by immunofluorescence and flow cytometry and qRT-PCR was used to identify, the expression of related marker genes after 10 days of RA-induction. Secondly, the ESCs on 0d/ 4d /10d after RA- induction/self-differentiation were collected, and the total RNA was then extracted from cells. Finally, high-throughput analysis methods (RNA-seq) were used to sequence the transcriptome of these cells. After PCA analysis of the RNA-seq data, Venny analysis, GO and KEGG enrichment were further used to find the key signaling pathways and genes in the RA-induction process. The results showed that on day 10 of RA-induction, grape cluster growth cells expressed integrinβ1, the specific marker protein of SSCs cells, and the integrinβ1 positive rate was 35.1%. Also, SSCs marker genes CVH, Integrinβ1, Integrinα6 were significantly up-regulated during RA-induction. Moreover, the significantly enriched pathway, ECM-receptor interaction signaling, in current study may play a crucial role in RA-induction. Then, JASPAR was used to predict the differential gene transcription factors in the signaling pathway, finding that RA receptor was a transcription factor of COL5A1, COL5A2 and COL3A1. The qRT-PCR results showed that the expression levels of RA receptors (RXRA, RARA and RXRG) and the predicted genes (COL5A1, COL5A2 and COL3A1) were both significantly increased during RA-induction. Also, dual-luciferase reporter assay showed that RA could affect the luciferin activities of COL5A1, COL5A2 and COL3A1. These results suggest that RA plays a crucial role in the formation of chicken spermatogonial stem cells via the transcription levels of COL5A1, COL5A2 and COL3A1 to regulate the ECM-receptor interaction signaling pathway. Additionally, knockdown of COL5A1/COL5A2/COL3A1 could effectively reduce the formation efficiency of SSCs. This indicated that the interference of RA receptor binding genes in the ECM-receptor interaction signaling pathway could decrease the efficiency of RA induced SSCs formation. Therefore, this study concludes that RA promotes formation of chicken spermatogonial stem cells by regulating the ECM-receptor interaction signaling pathway.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:820

Enthalten in:

Gene - 820(2022) vom: 30. Apr., Seite 146227

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hu, Cai [VerfasserIn]
Zuo, Qisheng [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Zongyi [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yuhui [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Jichang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chaoyong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yingjie [VerfasserIn]
Zhan, Wanda [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Fufu [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Hongyan [VerfasserIn]
Niu, Yingjie [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yani [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

5688UTC01R
Collagen Type III
Collagen Type V
ECM-receptor interaction signaling pathway
Journal Article
Receptors, Cell Surface
Retinoic acid
Spermatogonial stem cells
Tretinoin

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Date Completed 21.03.2022

Date Revised 21.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.gene.2022.146227

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM336566808