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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency

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  • Haruko Obokata

    (Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Laboratory for Cellular Reprogramming, RIKEN Center for Developmental biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
    Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, RIKEN Center for Developmental biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan)

  • Teruhiko Wakayama

    (Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, RIKEN Center for Developmental biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
    Present address: Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi 400-8510, Japan.)

  • Yoshiki Sasai

    (Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis, RIKEN Center for Developmental biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan)

  • Koji Kojima

    (Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

  • Martin P. Vacanti

    (Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Irwin Army Community Hospital)

  • Hitoshi Niwa

    (Laboratory for Pluripotent Stem Cell Studies, RIKEN Center for Developmental biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan)

  • Masayuki Yamato

    (Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan)

  • Charles A. Vacanti

    (Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

Abstract

Here we report a unique cellular reprogramming phenomenon, called stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), which requires neither nuclear transfer nor the introduction of transcription factors. In STAP, strong external stimuli such as a transient low-pH stressor reprogrammed mammalian somatic cells, resulting in the generation of pluripotent cells. Through real-time imaging of STAP cells derived from purified lymphocytes, as well as gene rearrangement analysis, we found that committed somatic cells give rise to STAP cells by reprogramming rather than selection. STAP cells showed a substantial decrease in DNA methylation in the regulatory regions of pluripotency marker genes. Blastocyst injection showed that STAP cells efficiently contribute to chimaeric embryos and to offspring via germline transmission. We also demonstrate the derivation of robustly expandable pluripotent cell lines from STAP cells. Thus, our findings indicate that epigenetic fate determination of mammalian cells can be markedly converted in a context-dependent manner by strong environmental cues.

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  • Haruko Obokata & Teruhiko Wakayama & Yoshiki Sasai & Koji Kojima & Martin P. Vacanti & Hitoshi Niwa & Masayuki Yamato & Charles A. Vacanti, 2014. "RETRACTED ARTICLE: Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency," Nature, Nature, vol. 505(7485), pages 641-647, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:505:y:2014:i:7485:d:10.1038_nature12968
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12968
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