Copper chaperone ATOX1 regulates pluripotency factor OCT4 in preimplantation mouse embryos
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

Despite of the importance of copper (Cu) during pregnancy, the roles of Cu-binding proteins during early embryonic development are unknown. The Cu chaperone ATOX1 was recently suggested to have additional functions related to transcription and cancer. When we analyzed single-cell RNA transcript data from early mouse embryos, Atox1 transcript levels increased dramatically at the 8-cell stage and, at 16 and 32-cell embryo stages, matched those of Oct4 which expresses a transcription factor essential for pluripotency in the inner cell mass. To explore this, we probed Atox1 expression during the first week of development of mouse embryos. ATOX1 appeared ubiquitously expressed throughout the cells until compaction; in subsequent embryo stages, ATOX1 relocalized to cytoplasmic perinuclear domains in the inner cell mass. Silencing of Oct4 did not affect Atoxl expression, but silencing of Atoxl at the 2-cell stage strongly diminished Oct4 expression in 16-cell embryos.

Preimplantation mouse embryo

Development

Oct4

Transcription factor

Atox1

Författare

Emanuele Celauro

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Kemisk biologi

Amisa Mukaj

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Kemisk biologi

Juan Carlos Fierro González

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Kemisk biologi

Pernilla Wittung Stafshede

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Kemisk biologi

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

0006-291X (ISSN) 1090-2104 (eISSN)

Vol. 491 1 147-153

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Styrkeområden

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Livsvetenskaper och teknik (2010-2018)

Ämneskategorier

Biokemi och molekylärbiologi

DOI

10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.07.064

PubMed

28711491

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2017-10-07