Expression of liver fatty acid binding protein alters growth and differentiation of embryonic stem cells
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Abstract
Although expression of liver fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP) modulates cell growth, it is not known if L-FABP also alters cell morphology and differentiation. Therefore, pluripotent embryonic stem cells were transfected with cDNA encoding L-FABP and a series of clones expressing increasing levels of L-FABP were isolated. Untransfected ES cells, as well as ES cells transfected only with empty vector, spontaneously differentiated from rounded adipocyte-like to fibroblast-like morphology, concomitant with marked reduction in expression of stage-specific embryonic antigen (SSEA-1). These changes in morphology and expression of SSEA-1 were greatest in ES cell clones expressing L-FABP above a threshold level. Immunofluorescence confocal microscopy revealed that L-FABP was primarily localized in a diffuse-cytosolic pattern along with a lesser degree of punctate L-FABP expression in the nucleus. Nuclear localization of L-FABP was preferentially increased in clones expressing higher levels of L-FABP. In summary, L-FABP expression altered ES cell morphology and expression of SSEA-1. Taken together with the fact that L-FABP was detected in the nucleus, these data suggested that L-FABP may play a more direct, heretofore unknown, role in regulating ES cell differentiation by acting in the nucleus as well as cytoplasm.
First Page
127
Last Page
138
DOI
10.1023/A:1010851130136
Publication Date
5-3-2001
Recommended Citation
Schroeder, F., Atshaves, B., Starodub, O., Boedeker, A., Smith, R., Roths, J., Foxworth, W., & Kier, A. (2001). Expression of liver fatty acid binding protein alters growth and differentiation of embryonic stem cells. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 219 (1-2), 127-138. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010851130136