Nature Communications (May 2022)

BMP4 drives primed to naïve transition through PGC-like state

  • Shengyong Yu,
  • Chunhua Zhou,
  • Jiangping He,
  • Zhaokai Yao,
  • Xingnan Huang,
  • Bowen Rong,
  • Hong Zhu,
  • Shijie Wang,
  • Shuyan Chen,
  • Xialian Wang,
  • Baomei Cai,
  • Guoqing Zhao,
  • Yuhan Chen,
  • Lizhan Xiao,
  • He Liu,
  • Yue Qin,
  • Jing Guo,
  • Haokaifeng Wu,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Man Zhang,
  • Xiaoyang Zhao,
  • Fei Lan,
  • Yixuan Wang,
  • Jiekai Chen,
  • Shangtao Cao,
  • Duanqing Pei,
  • Jing Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30325-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Multiple pluripotent states have been described in mouse and human stem cells. Here the authors describe trajectories during BMP4 induced primed to naïve transition, which bifurcates into naïve and trophoblast-like branches with a PGC-like intermediate at the naïve branch.