The role of Dppa3 in mESC through RNA-seq

Distinct cell types emerge from embryonic stem cells through a precise and coordinated execution of gene expression programs during lineage commitment. This is established by the action of lineage specific transcription factors along with chromatin complexes. Numerous studies focused on epigenetic factors that affect ESC self-renewal and pluripotency. Through our laboratory's previous studies on ESCs pluripotency, we found that Dppa3, as a Naive state marker gene, is of great significance to the transformation of mESCs pluripotency. However, the influence of overexpression of Dppa3 in ESCs on mESCs status has not been determined. Our results show that overexpression of Dppa3 induces global DNA demethylation, which is beneficial to the maintenance of pluripotency, but its differentiation ability is significantly impaired. In mESCs, Dppa3 regulates mESCs pluripotency by inhibiting de novo methylation pathway, maintaining methylation pathway, promoting demethylation pathway Tet2, up-regulating active histone modification and down-regulating heterogeneous histone modification. The 2C-like state of ESCs recapitulates key aspects of the two-cell stage mouse embryo both phenotypically and molecular, which providing a cellular model to investigate the progress of ZGA. Our results found Dppa3 promote facilitate 2C-state conversion. Overall design: Detection of Dppa3 function in embryonic stem cells