Nanog transforms NIH3T3 cells and targets cell-type restricted genes

Dan Piestun; Bose S. Kochupurakkal; Jasmine Jacob-Hirsch; Sharon Zeligson; Mark Koudritsky; Eytan Domany; Ninette Amariglio; Gideon Rechavi; David Givol

doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.02.152

Nanog transforms NIH3T3 cells and targets cell-type restricted genes

Dan Piestun, Bose S. Kochupurakkal, Jasmine Jacob-Hirsch, Sharon Zeligson, Mark Koudritsky, Eytan Domany, Ninette Amariglio, Gideon Rechavi, David Givol

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Abstract

The transcription factor Nanog is uniquely expressed in embryonic stem (ES) cells and in germ cell tumors and is important for self-renewal. To understand the relation between this and cell transformation, we expressed Nanog in NIH3T3 cells, and these cells showed an increased growth rate and a transformed phenotype as demonstrated by foci formation and colony growth in soft agar. This suggests that Nanog possesses an oncogenic potential that may be related to the role it plays in germ cell tumors and to its function in self renewal of ES cells. We studied the transcription targets of Nanog using microarrays to identify Nanog regulated genes. The list of genes regulated by Nanog was unique for each cell type and more than 10% of the Nanog regulated genes, including transcription factors, are primary Nanog targets since their promoters bind Nanog in ES cells. Some of these target genes can explain the transformation of NIH3T3.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	279-285
Number of pages	7
Journal	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume	343
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.02.152
State	Published - 28 Apr 2006
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Austin Smith for the Nanog cDNA and Dr. Doron Ginsberg for the pBabe (HA and RasV12) vectors. We thank Hilah Gal for helpful discussions. We thank The Kahn Family Foundation for generous support. This research was partially supported by grants from Ruth & Allen Ziegler for Stem Cell Research, the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust on Tumor Cell Diversity, The Ridgefield Foundation, and The Israel Academy of Science.

Funding

We thank Dr. Austin Smith for the Nanog cDNA and Dr. Doron Ginsberg for the pBabe (HA and RasV12) vectors. We thank Hilah Gal for helpful discussions. We thank The Kahn Family Foundation for generous support. This research was partially supported by grants from Ruth & Allen Ziegler for Stem Cell Research, the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust on Tumor Cell Diversity, The Ridgefield Foundation, and The Israel Academy of Science.

Funders	Funder number
Israel Academy of Science
Ridgefield Foundation
Ruth & Allen Ziegler for Stem Cell Research
Wolfson Family Charitable Trust

Keywords

Microarray
Nanog targets
Oncogenicity
Promoters
Self-renewal

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