Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-12-2023

Keywords

JMG, SS1

JAX Source

Cell Genom. 2023;3(4):100283.

ISSN

2666-979X

PMID

37082146

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100283

Grant

Funding sources included NIH grants R35GM133495 to S.C.M.; R01GM070683 to G.A.C.; R35GM133724 and T32HD007065 to C.L.B.; OD010921 and OD011102 to L.G.R.; NIEHS-National Toxicology Program (NTP) HHSN273201500196P to T.C.; F32GM134599 to G.R.K.; R01GM067945 to S.P.G.; and The Jackson Laboratory to S.C.M., C.L.B., L.G.R., and G.A.C.

Abstract

Genetic background drives phenotypic variability in pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). Most studies to date have used transcript abundance as the primary molecular readout of cell state in PSCs. We performed a comprehensive proteogenomics analysis of 190 genetically diverse mouse embryonic stem cell (mESC) lines. The quantitative proteome is highly variable across lines, and we identified pluripotency-associated pathways that were differentially activated in the proteomics data that were not evident in transcriptome data from the same lines. Integration of protein abundance to transcript levels and chromatin accessibility revealed broad co-variation across molecular layers as well as shared and unique drivers of quantitative variation in pluripotency-associated pathways. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping localized the drivers of these multi-omic signatures to genomic hotspots. This study reveals post-transcriptional mechanisms and genetic interactions that underlie quantitative variability in the pluripotent proteome and provides a regulatory map for mESCs that can provide a basis for future mechanistic studies.

Comments

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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