Dynamic heterogeneity and DNA methylation in embryonic stem cells

ZS Singer, J Yong, J Tischler, JA Hackett, A Altinok… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
Cell populations can be strikingly heterogeneous, composed of multiple cellular states, each
exhibiting stochastic noise in its gene expression. A major challenge is to disentangle these …

Systematic analysis of the determinants of gene expression noise in embryonic stem cells

AJ Faure, JM Schmiedel, B Lehner - Cell systems, 2017 - cell.com
Isogenic cells in a common environment show substantial cell-to-cell variation in gene
expression, often referred to as" expression noise." Here, we use multiple single-cell RNA …

Serum-based culture conditions provoke gene expression variability in mouse embryonic stem cells as revealed by single-cell analysis

G Guo, L Pinello, X Han, S Lai, L Shen, TW Lin, K Zou… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Variation in gene expression is an important feature of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs).
However, the mechanisms responsible for global gene expression variation in ESCs are not …

A dynamical-systems view of stem cell biology

C Furusawa, K Kaneko - Science, 2012 - science.org
During development, cells undergo a unidirectional course of differentiation that
progressively decreases the number of cell types they can potentially become. Stem cells …

Systems-level dynamic analyses of fate change in murine embryonic stem cells

R Lu, F Markowetz, RD Unwin, JT Leek, EM Airoldi… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Molecular regulation of embryonic stem cell (ESC) fate involves a coordinated interaction
between epigenetic,,,, transcriptional,,,,, and translational, mechanisms. It is unclear how …

Inferring the kinetics of stochastic gene expression from single-cell RNA-sequencing data

JK Kim, JC Marioni - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background Genetically identical populations of cells grown in the same environmental
condition show substantial variability in gene expression profiles. Although single-cell RNA …

Oscillatory protein expression dynamics endows stem cells with robust differentiation potential

N Suzuki, C Furusawa, K Kaneko - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The lack of understanding of stem cell differentiation and proliferation is a fundamental
problem in developmental biology. Although gene regulatory networks (GRNs) for stem cell …

Transcriptome-wide variability in single embryonic development cells

V Piras, M Tomita, K Selvarajoo - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Molecular heterogeneity of individual molecules within single cells has been recently shown
to be crucial for cell fate diversifications. However, on a global scale, the effect of molecular …

Making lineage decisions with biological noise: Lessons from the early mouse embryo

CS Simon, AK Hadjantonakis… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how individual cells make fate decisions that lead to the faithful formation
and homeostatic maintenance of tissues is a fundamental goal of contemporary …

Spatial stochastic modelling of the Hes1 gene regulatory network: intrinsic noise can explain heterogeneity in embryonic stem cell differentiation

M Sturrock, A Hellander… - Journal of The …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individual mouse embryonic stem cells have been found to exhibit highly variable
differentiation responses under the same environmental conditions. The noisy cyclic …