Journal: Nucleic acids research
Article Title: Rescuing DNMT1 fails to fully reverse the molecular and functional repercussions of its loss in mouse embryonic stem cells.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf130
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 8. Delaying Dnmt1 rescue until after differentiation initiation worsens molecular and cellular outcomes. ( A ) Schematic diagram depicting embryoid body formation including four experimental conditions: Dnmt1 -control, Dnmt1 -inactive, Dnmt1 -rescue, and post-differentiation Dnmt1 -rescue. Embryoid bodies ( n = 192 per condition) were derived from the same Dnmt1 tet / tet mESC culture. Created in BioRender: Dupas, T. (2025) https:// BioRender.com/ f72a244 . ( B ) Bright-field microscopy images of one embryoid body per condition taken on days 3, 5, 7, and 10. ( C ) Size and ( D ) circularity of embryoid bodies on days 2, 5, and 10 determined by measuring their surface area and perimeter on bright-field microscopy images using the ImageJ software. Daily images were taken of the same 20 embryoid bodies per condition. Surface area was used as an indicator of size and circularity was calculated with the formula 4 π × Area / Perimeter 2 . ( E ) Principal component analysis of gene expression measured on day 5 and day 10 by mRNA sequencing ( n = 3 per condition with pooled embryoid bodies). A greater divergence in gene expression profiles is represented by the distance between samples along the x -axis (PC1), compared to the y -axis (PC2). ( F ) Number of differentially expressed genes in Dnmt1 -inactive, Dnmt1 -rescue, and post-differentiation Dnmt1 -rescue embryoid bodies versus Dnmt1 -control embryoid bodies on day 5 and day 10 determined by an adjusted P -value ≤0.05 and log2 fold change ≤−0.6 or ≥0.6 using mRNA sequencing analyzed with the DESeq2 software. ( G ) Estimated proportion of ExE endoderm, epiblast (pluripotent), primitive streak (mesendoderm), and neurectoderm cell types in embryoid bodies on days 5 and 10 determined by decon v oluting ra w counts using single-cell data from mouse gastrulation embry os (embry onic da y 7.75). All pairwise comparisons w ere conducted using one-w a y ANO V A with Tuk e y’s HSD test and P -v alue adjustment. ns P -v alue > 0.05, * P -v alue ≤0.05, ** P -v alue ≤0.01, *** P -v alue ≤0.001, **** P -value ≤0.0 0 01. See also Supplementary Fig. S8 .
Article Snippet: The membrane was hen incubated under soft agitation overnight at 4 ◦C with he primary antibodies for DNMT1 (Cell Signaling Technolgy, 5032) and β-actin (Cell Signaling Technology, 4970) diuted at 1 / 1000 in 5% milk.
Techniques: Control, Derivative Assay, Microscopy, Software, Gene Expression, Sequencing