STAP cells are derived from ES cells
STAP cells are derived from ES cells
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STAP细胞来源于ES细胞
DOI:
10.1038/nature15366
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
Matsuzaki F
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作者:
Konno D;Kasukawa T;Hashimoto K;Itoh T;Suetsugu T;Miura I;Wakana S;Carninci P;Matsuzaki F
Two reports claiming a novel cellular reprogramming phenomenon, stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), were published in Nature last year1, 2, but then subsequently retracted3, 4. The identity of STAP cells and STAP-derived stem cells, however, has remained undetermined. Here we report the results of a whole-genome sequencing (WGS) investigation of STAP-related samples kept mainly at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology. We show that all purported STAP stem-cell lines were contaminated with embryonic stem (ES) cells, and that chimaeric mice and teratomas supposedly derived from STAP cells instead show ES cell contribution. The original article1 reported that exposure to low pH can reprogram differentiated cells into unique pluripotent cells (STAP cells), from which two secondary cell lines were established; ES-like STAP stem cells and trophoblast stem-like Fgf4-induced stem cells capable of generating placental cells1, 2. Because STAP cells were not maintained as frozen stocks, we first performed WGS of 15 genomic DNA samples in total, including three representative STAP stem-cell lines with different genetic backgrounds, an Fgf4-induced stem-cell line, and seven ES cell lines established at the Wakayama laboratory before or during the STAP study (Extended Data Table 1). We determined genome-wide patterns of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that distinguish mouse strains 129/Sv (129) and C57BL/6 (B6), as well as green fluorescent protein (GFP) transgene types (Supplementary Methods and Extended Data Fig. 1a). No samples from the Oct4-GFP Fgf4-induced stem cells described in the original letter2 were found (Oct4 is also known as Pou5f1).The STAP stem-cell line FLS and the Fgf4-induced stem-cell line CTS were reported to carry a homozygous insertion of a single cag-gfp transgene with the genetic background of 129 female 3 B6 male (Extended Data Table 1). However, these cell lines had co-insertions of two GFP transgenes5, sperm-specific acrosin-promoter-gfp6 and