Honey bee Royalactin unlocks conserved pluripotency pathway in mammals

oleh: Derrick C. Wan, Stefanie L. Morgan, Andrew L. Spencley, Natasha Mariano, Erin Y. Chang, Gautam Shankar, Yunhai Luo, Ted H. Li, Dana Huh, Star K. Huynh, Jasmine M. Garcia, Cole M. Dovey, Jennifer Lumb, Ling Liu, Katharine V. Brown, Abel Bermudez, Richard Luong, Hong Zeng, Victoria L. Mascetti, Sharon J. Pitteri, Jordon Wang, Hua Tu, Marco Quarta, Vittorio Sebastiano, Roel Nusse, Thomas A. Rando, Jan E. Carette, J. Fernando Bazan, Kevin C. Wang

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-12-01

Deskripsi

Royal jelly is the queen-maker for the honey bee that also has effects on longevity, fertility, and regeneration in mammals. Here the authors provide evidence that its major protein component Royalactin, and the mammalian structural analog Regina, maintain pluripotency in mouse ESCs by activating a ground-state pluripotency-like gene network.