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According to this model, the pluripotent state resides 'above' the differentiated somatic states, and lineage differentiation and commitment are unidirectional and irreversible.
Furthermore, a majority showed commitment to highly differentiated neuronal phenotypes.
Here, I discuss mechanisms underpinning the commitment towards the differentiated state and its relation to the cell cycle.
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The OCT4 and REX1 promoter CpG sites showed consistently elevated levels of methylation upon differentiation towards fibroblasts, indicating epigenetic silencing of pluripotency genes as cells underwent commitment towards stable, differentiated cell types (Figure 3B).
We believe that this observation together with the expression of crest specific markers can explains the commitment of our differentiated hNPs to yield a high proportion of peripherin expressing neurons following a total of 10 weeks in culture.
In these latter settings, c-Myc and/or N-Myc play prominent roles in regulating the maintenance and expansion of resident stem cells as well as their commitment towards more differentiated cell types.
Importantly, full exploitation of the potential of hESCs will require the complete understanding of the function of the genetic factors that specify stem cell identity and regulate their commitment towards specific differentiated cell lineages.
However, FGF signaling is important for self-renewal and proliferation of primitive ESCs and for migration, proliferation and lineage commitment of more differentiated cells.
