Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States.
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent very promising resources for cell-based regenerative medicine. It is essential to determine the biological implications of some fundamental physiological processes (such as glycogen metabolism) in these stem cells. In this report, we employ electron, im...
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| author | Richard J Chen Guofeng Zhang Susan H Garfield Yi-Jun Shi Kevin G Chen Pamela G Robey Richard D Leapman |
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| description | Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent very promising resources for cell-based regenerative medicine. It is essential to determine the biological implications of some fundamental physiological processes (such as glycogen metabolism) in these stem cells. In this report, we employ electron, immunofluorescence microscopy, and biochemical methods to study glycogen synthesis in hPSCs. Our results indicate that there is a high level of glycogen synthesis (0.28 to 0.62 μg/μg proteins) in undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) compared with the glycogen levels (0 to 0.25 μg/μg proteins) reported in human cancer cell lines. Moreover, we found that glycogen synthesis was regulated by bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP-4) and the glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) pathway. Our observation of glycogen bodies and sustained expression of the pluripotent factor Oct-4 mediated by the potent GSK-3 inhibitor CHIR-99021 reveals an altered pluripotent state in hPSC culture. We further confirmed glycogen variations under different naïve pluripotent cell growth conditions based on the addition of the GSK-3 inhibitor BIO. Our data suggest that primed hPSCs treated with naïve growth conditions acquire altered pluripotent states, similar to those naïve-like hPSCs, with increased glycogen synthesis. Furthermore, we found that suppression of phosphorylated glycogen synthase was an underlying mechanism responsible for altered glycogen synthesis. Thus, our novel findings regarding the dynamic changes in glycogen metabolism provide new markers to assess the energetic and various pluripotent states in hPSCs. The components of glycogen metabolic pathways offer new assays to delineate previously unrecognized properties of hPSCs under different growth conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9074ddc6fb94cb59548317c753f27122022-12-22T03:08:16ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-011011e014255410.1371/journal.pone.0142554Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States.Richard J ChenGuofeng ZhangSusan H GarfieldYi-Jun ShiKevin G ChenPamela G RobeyRichard D LeapmanHuman pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent very promising resources for cell-based regenerative medicine. It is essential to determine the biological implications of some fundamental physiological processes (such as glycogen metabolism) in these stem cells. In this report, we employ electron, immunofluorescence microscopy, and biochemical methods to study glycogen synthesis in hPSCs. Our results indicate that there is a high level of glycogen synthesis (0.28 to 0.62 μg/μg proteins) in undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) compared with the glycogen levels (0 to 0.25 μg/μg proteins) reported in human cancer cell lines. Moreover, we found that glycogen synthesis was regulated by bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP-4) and the glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) pathway. Our observation of glycogen bodies and sustained expression of the pluripotent factor Oct-4 mediated by the potent GSK-3 inhibitor CHIR-99021 reveals an altered pluripotent state in hPSC culture. We further confirmed glycogen variations under different naïve pluripotent cell growth conditions based on the addition of the GSK-3 inhibitor BIO. Our data suggest that primed hPSCs treated with naïve growth conditions acquire altered pluripotent states, similar to those naïve-like hPSCs, with increased glycogen synthesis. Furthermore, we found that suppression of phosphorylated glycogen synthase was an underlying mechanism responsible for altered glycogen synthesis. Thus, our novel findings regarding the dynamic changes in glycogen metabolism provide new markers to assess the energetic and various pluripotent states in hPSCs. The components of glycogen metabolic pathways offer new assays to delineate previously unrecognized properties of hPSCs under different growth conditions.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4643957?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Richard J Chen Guofeng Zhang Susan H Garfield Yi-Jun Shi Kevin G Chen Pamela G Robey Richard D Leapman Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States. PLoS ONE |
| title | Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States. |
| title_full | Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States. |
| title_fullStr | Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States. |
| title_short | Variations in Glycogen Synthesis in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells with Altered Pluripotent States. |
| title_sort | variations in glycogen synthesis in human pluripotent stem cells with altered pluripotent states |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4643957?pdf=render |
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