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Sox2 Expression Is Regulated by a Negative Feedback Loop in Embryonic Stem Cells That Involves AKT Signaling and FoxO1.


Ormsbee Golden BD, Wuebben EL, Rizzino A

The self-renewal and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells (ESC) is regulated by a highly integrated network of essential transcription factors, which includes Sox2. Previous studies have shown that elevating Sox2 on its own in mouse ESC induces differentiation and inhibits the expression of endogenous Sox2 at the protein and mRNA level. These findings led us to hypothesize that increases in Sox2 activate a negative feedback loop that inhibits the transcription of the endogenous Sox2 gene. To test this hypothesis, we used i-OSKM-ESC, which elevate Sox2 in conjunction with Oct4, Klf4, and c-Myc when treated with doxycycline (Dox). Elevating the expression of these four transcription factors in i-OSKM-ESC does not induce differentiation, but it represses expression of endogenous Sox2. We determined that increases of Sox2 in i-OSKM-ESC lead to increases in activated AKT and inactivation of FoxO1 (an activator of Sox2), as well as decreases in binding of FoxO1 to the 5'flanking region of Sox2. Importantly, we determined that inhibition of AKT in Dox-treated i-OSKM-ESC leads to re-expression of endogenous Sox2 at the mRNA and protein level and reactivation of FoxO1. These findings argue that AKT signaling is part of the negative feedback loop that helps carefully control the transcription of Sox2 in ESC by modulating the binding of FoxO1 to the Sox2 gene. Collectively, our findings provide new insights into the mechanisms that enable ESC to carefully regulate the levels of Sox2 and retain their stem cell properties.

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Chromatin Shearing
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Published
October, 2013

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