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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
Stem cells have the remarkable ability to self-renew and to generate multiple cell types. Nucleostemin is one of proteins that are enriched in many types of stem cells. Targeted deletion of nucleostemin in the mouse results in developmental arrest at the implantation stage, indicating that nucleostemin is crucial for early embryogenesis. However, the molecular basis of nucleostemin function in early mouse embryos remains largely unknown, and the role of nucleostemin in tissue stem cells has not been examined by gene targeting analyses due to the early embryonic lethality of nucleostemin null animals. To address these questions, we generated inducible nucleostemin null embryonic stem (ES) cells in which both alleles of nucleostemin are disrupted, but nucleostemin cDNA under the control of a tetracycline-responsive transcriptional activator is introduced into the Rosa26 locus. We show that loss of nucleostemin results in reduced cell proliferation and increased apoptosis in both ES cells and ES cell-derived neural stem/progenitor cells. The reduction in cell viability is much more profound in ES cells than in neural stem/progenitor cells, an effect that is mediated at least in part by increased induction and accumulation of p53 and/or activated caspase-3 in ES cells than in neural stem/progenitor cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1549-4918
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1066-76
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Benzothiazoles, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Caspase 3, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Doxycycline, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Embryonic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Pluripotent Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Toluene, pubmed-meshheading:19418458-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Differential requirement for nucleostemin in embryonic stem cell and neural stem cell viability.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Developmental Biology, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Yamane Hidaka, Saitama, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't