Induction of recurrent break cluster genes in neural progenitor cells differentiated from embryonic stem cells in culture
Open Access
- 24 April 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Vol. 117 (19), 10541-10546
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922299117
Abstract
Mild replication stress enhances appearance of dozens of robust recurrent genomic break clusters, termed RDCs, in cultured primary mouse neural stem and progenitor cells (NSPCs). Robust RDCs occur within genes (“RDC-genes”) that are long and have roles in neural cell communications and/or have been implicated in neuropsychiatric diseases or cancer. We sought to develop an in vitro approach to determine whether specific RDC formation is associated with neural development. For this purpose, we adapted a system to induce neural progenitor cell (NPC) development from mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) lines deficient for XRCC4 plus p53, a genotype that enhances DNA double-strand break (DSB) persistence to enhance detection. We tested for RDCs by our genome-wide DSB identification approach that captures DSBs via their ability to join to specific genomic Cas9/single-guide RNA–generated bait DSBs. In XRCC4/p53-deficient ESCs, we detected seven RDCs, all of which were in genes and two of which were robust. In contrast, in NPCs derived from these ESC lines we detected 29 RDCs, a large fraction of which were robust and associated with long, transcribed neural genes that were also robust RDC-genes in primary NSPCs. These studies suggest that many RDCs present in NSPCs are developmentally influenced to occur in this cell type and indicate that induced development of NPCs from ESCs provides an approach to rapidly elucidate mechanistic aspects of NPC RDC formation.Keywords
Funding Information
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (N/A)
- Charles H. Hood Foundation (N/A)
- Charles A. King Trust (N/A)
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DRG-2336-18)
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