Targeted Deletion in the Basal Body Protein Talpid3 Leads to Loss of Primary Cilia in Embryonic Stem Cells and Defective Lineage-Specific Differentiation

Ross Ferguson; Vasanta Subramanian

doi:10.3390/cells13231957

Targeted Deletion in the Basal Body Protein Talpid3 Leads to Loss of Primary Cilia in Embryonic Stem Cells and Defective Lineage-Specific Differentiation

Ross Ferguson, Vasanta Subramanian

Department of Life Sciences

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Abstract

Talpid3 is a basal body protein required for the formation of primary cilia, an organelle involved in signal transduction. Here, we asked if Talpid3 has a role in the regulation of differentiation and/or self-renewal of ES cells and whether cells lacking cilia due to a deletion in Talpid3 can be reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. We show that mouse embryonic limb fibroblasts which lack primary cilia with a targeted deletion in the Talpid3 (Ta3) gene can be efficiently reprogrammed to iPS cells. Furthermore, vector-free Ta3−/− iPS cells retain ES cell features and are able to self-renew. However, both Ta3−/− iPS and ES cells are unable to form visceral endoderm and differentiate poorly into neurons. The observed defects are not a consequence of reprogramming since Ta3−/− ES cells also exhibit this phenotype. Thus, Talpid3 and primary cilia are required for some differentiation events but appear to be dispensable for stem cell self-renewal and reprogramming.

Original language	English
Article number	1957
Journal	Cells
Volume	13
Issue number	23
Early online date	25 Nov 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13231957
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2024

Data Availability Statement

Dataset available on request from the authors.

Acknowledgements

We thank Cheryll Tickle, University of Bath, for her support and encouragement and for providing the Talpid 3 gene targeted mice. We are grateful to Allan Bradley, Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, for providing the piggyBac reprogramming vector and the DSHB, USA for monoclonal antibodies. We thank Jenny Nichols, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, UK, for providing the TauGFP mESCs and Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford, UK, for providing the CagTag reporter construct. We are grateful to Adrian Rogers, MAS, University of Bath, for assistance with FACS and Confocal microscopy

Funding

This research was funded by grants to VS from the NC3Rs (Grant number G0900786), Wellcome Trust (Value in Peoples award Grant number 084562/Z/07/Z) and the University of Bath Alumni Funds.

Funders	Funder number
University of Bath
National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research	G0900786
National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
The Wellcome Trust	084562/Z/07/Z
The Wellcome Trust

Keywords

differentiation
extraembryonic membranes
mouse ES cells
primary cilia
talpid 3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology

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