Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) preserve the unique ability to differentiate into any somatic cell lineage while maintaining their self-renewal potential, relying on a complex interplay of extracellular signals regulating the expression/activity of pluripotency transcription factors and their targets. Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)-activated STAT3 drives ESCs' stemness by a number of mechanisms, including the transcriptional induction of pluripotency factors such as Klf4 and the maintenance of a stem-like epigenetic landscape. However, it is unknown if STAT3 directly controls stem-cell specific non-coding RNAs, crucial to balance pluripotency and differentiation. Applying a bioinformatic pipeline, here we identify Lncenc1 in mouse ESCs as an STAT3-dependent long non-coding RNA that supports pluripotency. Lncenc1 acts in the cytoplasm as a positive feedback regulator of the LIF-STAT3 axis by competing for the binding of microRNA-128 to the 3'UTR of the Klf4 core pluripotency factor mRNA, enhancing its expression. Our results unveil a novel non-coding RNA-based mechanism for LIF-STAT3-mediated pluripotency.
STAT3-dependent long non-coding RNA Lncenc1 contributes to mouse ES cells pluripotency via stabilizing Klf4 mRNA / Monteleone, Emanuele; Corrieri, Paola; Provero, Paolo; Viavattene, Daniele; Pulvirenti, Lorenzo; Raggi, Laura; Carbognin, Elena; Bianchi, Marco E; Martello, Graziano; Oliviero, Salvatore; Pandolfi, Pier Paolo; Poli, Valeria. - In: BRIEFINGS IN FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS. - ISSN 2041-2649. - (2024), pp. 1-12. [10.1093/bfgp/elad045]
STAT3-dependent long non-coding RNA Lncenc1 contributes to mouse ES cells pluripotency via stabilizing Klf4 mRNA
Monteleone, Emanuele
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;Bianchi, Marco E;
2024-01-01
Abstract
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) preserve the unique ability to differentiate into any somatic cell lineage while maintaining their self-renewal potential, relying on a complex interplay of extracellular signals regulating the expression/activity of pluripotency transcription factors and their targets. Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)-activated STAT3 drives ESCs' stemness by a number of mechanisms, including the transcriptional induction of pluripotency factors such as Klf4 and the maintenance of a stem-like epigenetic landscape. However, it is unknown if STAT3 directly controls stem-cell specific non-coding RNAs, crucial to balance pluripotency and differentiation. Applying a bioinformatic pipeline, here we identify Lncenc1 in mouse ESCs as an STAT3-dependent long non-coding RNA that supports pluripotency. Lncenc1 acts in the cytoplasm as a positive feedback regulator of the LIF-STAT3 axis by competing for the binding of microRNA-128 to the 3'UTR of the Klf4 core pluripotency factor mRNA, enhancing its expression. Our results unveil a novel non-coding RNA-based mechanism for LIF-STAT3-mediated pluripotency.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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