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Critical roles of coactivator p300 in mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation and nanog expression
Xiaomin Zhong and Ying Jin
Key Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai, Shanghai 200025
p300 is a well-known histone acetyltransferase and coactivator playing pivotal roles in many physiological processes. Despite extensive research for functions of p300 in embryogenesis and transcription regulation, its roles in regulating embryonic stem (ES) cell pluripotency are poorly understood. To address this issue, we investigated the self-renewal ability and early differentiation process in both wild-type mouse ES cells and ES cells derived from p300 knock-out (p300-/-) mice. We found that p300 ablation did not affect self-renewal capacity overtly when ES cells were maintained under undifferentiated conditions. However, the absence of p300 caused a significantly abnormal expression pattern of germ layer markers when differentiation was induced by embryoid body (EB) formation. Interestingly, the expression level of pluripotency marker Nanog, but not Oct4, was markedly lower in EBs from p300-/- ES cells, compared to that in EBs from wild-type ES cells. Exogenous expression of Nanog rescued abnormal expression of extra-embryonic endoderm marker partially, but not mesoderm and ectoderm markers. Furthermore we demonstrate that p300 was directly involved in modulating Nanog expression. Importantly, epigenetic modification of histone acetylation at the distal regulatory region of Nanog was found to be dependent on the presence of p300, which could contribute to the mechanism of regulating Nanog expression by p300. Collectively, our results show that p300 plays an important role in the differentiation process of ES cells and provide the first evidence for involvement of p300 in regulating Nanog expression during differentiation, probably through epigenetic modification of histone on Nanog.
