Mehla , BS and Puri, D and Singh , SB and Subramanyam, D (2021) Understanding the role of Beclin1 in mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation through CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene editing. Journal of Bioscience, 46 (18).

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Abstract

Autophagy is a vacuolar pathway for the regulated degradation and recycling of cellular components. Beclin1, a Bcl2-interacting protein, is a well-studied autophagy regulator. Homozygous loss of Beclin1 in mice leads to early embryonic lethality. However, the role of Beclin1 in regulating the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells and their differentiation remains poorly explored. To study this, we generated Beclin1-Knockout (KO) mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing tool. Interestingly, Beclin1-KO mESCs did not show any change in the expression of pluripotency marker genes. Beclin1-KO mESCs also displayed active autophagy, suggesting the presence of Beclin1-independent autophagy in mESCs. However, loss of Beclin1 resulted in compromised differentiation of mESCs in vitro and in vivo due to misregulated expression of transcription factors. Our results suggest that Beclin1 may play an autophagy-independent role in regulating the differentiation of mESCs.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Stem Cell Biology
Depositing User:	Mr. Rameshwar Nema
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2021 07:55
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2021 07:55
URI:	http://nccs.sciencecentral.in/id/eprint/928

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