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Temporal BMP4 effects on mouse embryonic and extraembryonic development

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Title:Temporal BMP4 effects on mouse embryonic and extraembryonic development
Creators Name:Hadas, R., Rubinstein, H., Mittnenzweig, M., Mayshar, Y., Ben-Yair, R., Cheng, S., Aguilera-Castrejon, A., Reines, N., Orenbuch, A.H., Lifshitz, A., Chen, D.Y., Elowitz, M.B., Zernicka-Goetz, M., Hanna, J.H., Tanay, A. and Stelzer, Y.
Abstract:The developing placenta, which in mice originates through the extraembryonic ectoderm (ExE), is essential for mammalian embryonic development. Yet unbiased characterization of the differentiation dynamics of the ExE and its interactions with the embryo proper remains incomplete. Here we develop a temporal single-cell model of mouse gastrulation that maps continuous and parallel differentiation in embryonic and extraembryonic lineages. This is matched with a three-way perturbation approach to target signalling from the embryo proper, the ExE alone, or both. We show that ExE specification involves early spatial and transcriptional bifurcation of uncommitted ectoplacental cone cells and chorion progenitors. Early BMP4 signalling from chorion progenitors is required for proper differentiation of uncommitted ectoplacental cone cells and later for their specification towards trophoblast giant cells. We also find biphasic regulation by BMP4 in the embryo. The early ExE-originating BMP4 signal is necessary for proper mesoendoderm bifurcation and for allantois and primordial germ cell specification. However, commencing at embryonic day 7.5, embryo-derived BMP4 restricts the primordial germ cell pool size by favouring differentiation of their extraembryonic mesoderm precursors towards an allantois fate. ExE and embryonic tissues are therefore entangled in time, space and signalling axes, highlighting the importance of their integrated understanding and modelling in vivo and in vitro.
Keywords:Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4, Cell Differentiation, Cell Lineage, Chorion, Developmental Gene Expression Regulation, Ectoderm, Embryonic Development, Gastrulation, Mammalian Embryo, Mesoderm, Placenta, Pregnancy, Signal Transduction, Single-Cell Analysis, Time Factors, Trophoblasts, Animals, Mice
Source:Nature
ISSN:0028-0836
Publisher:Nature Publishing Group
Volume:634
Number:8034
Page Range:652-661
Date:17 October 2024
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07937-5
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