Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

BMI1 enables interspecies chimerism with human pluripotent stem cells

  • Ke Huang,
  • Yanling Zhu,
  • Yanlin Ma,
  • Bentian Zhao,
  • Nana Fan,
  • Yuhang Li,
  • Hong Song,
  • Shilong Chu,
  • Zhen Ouyang,
  • Quanjun Zhang,
  • Qi Xing,
  • Chengdan Lai,
  • Nan Li,
  • Tian Zhang,
  • Jiaming Gu,
  • Baoqiang Kang,
  • Yongli Shan,
  • Keyu Lai,
  • Wenhao Huang,
  • Yuchan Mai,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Jinbing Li,
  • Aiping Lin,
  • Yanqi Zhang,
  • Xiaofen Zhong,
  • Baojian Liao,
  • Liangxue Lai,
  • Jiekai Chen,
  • Duanqing Pei,
  • Guangjin Pan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07098-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Conventional human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) fail to contribute to interspecies chimaeras when injected into mouse blastocysts. Here the authors show that forced expression of BMI1 overcomes apoptosis of hPSCs in blastocysts of mouse, rabbit and pig allowing them to contribute to chimaeras.