Loss of TBX3 Enhances Pancreatic Progenitor Generation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Overview

Journal Stem Cell Reports

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2021 Oct 15

PMID 34653400

Citations 7

Authors

Somdutta Mukherjee

Deborah L French

Paul Gadue

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Abstract

Tbx3 has been identified as a regulator of liver development in the mouse, but its function in human liver development remains unknown. TBX3 mutant human pluripotent stem cell (PSC) lines were generated using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. TBX3 loss led to impaired liver differentiation and an upregulation of pancreatic gene expression, including PDX1, during a hepatocyte differentiation protocol. Other pancreatic genes, including NEUROG3 and NKX2.2, displayed more open chromatin in the TBX3 mutant hepatoblasts. Using a pancreatic differentiation protocol, cells lacking TBX3 generated more pancreatic progenitors and had an enhanced pancreatic gene expression signature at the expense of hepatic gene expression. These data highlight a potential role of TBX3 in regulating hepatic and pancreatic domains during foregut patterning, with implications for enhancing the generation of pancreatic progenitors from PSCs.

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