The aryl hydrocarbon receptor directs the differentiation of murine progenitor blastomeres

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Key regulatory decisions during cleavage divisions in mammalian embryogenesis determine the fate of preimplantation embryonic cells. Single-cell RNA sequencing of early-stage-2-cell, 4-cell, and 8-cell-blastomeres show that the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR), traditionally considered as an environmental sensor, directs blastomere differentiation. Disruption of AHR functions in Ahr knockout embryos or in embryos from dams exposed to dioxin, the prototypic xenobiotic AHR agonist, significantly impairs blastocyst formation, causing repression and loss of transcriptional heterogeneity of OCT4 and CDX2 and incidence of nonspecific downregulation of pluripotency. Trajectory-the path of differentiation-and gene variability analyses further confirm that deregulation of OCT4 functions and changes of transcriptional heterogeneity resulting from disruption of AHR functions restrict the emergence of differentiating blastomeres in 4-cell embryos. It appears that AHR directs the differentiation of progenitor blastomeres and that disruption of preimplantation AHR functions may significantly perturb embryogenesis leading to long-lasting conditions at the heart of disease in offspring's adulthood.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

Cell biology and toxicology - 39(2023), 4 vom: 27. Aug., Seite 1657-1676

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ko, Chia-I [VerfasserIn]
Biesiada, Jacek [VerfasserIn]
Zablon, Hesbon A [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Medvedovic, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Puga, Alvaro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ahr protein, mouse
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor
CDX2
Cellular heterogeneity
Journal Article
OCT4
Pluripotency
Preimplantation development
Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

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Date Completed 15.08.2023

Date Revised 31.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10565-022-09755-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345468708