Abstract
The study aims to analyze the key signaling pathways in regulating the process of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) differentiation into spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs). We explored the specific regulating mechanisms of C-Jun amino-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling in this process. Interference/overexpression of MAPK8 allows the JNK signaling pathway to be blocked/activated. In Retinoic acid (RA) induced in vitro differentiation assays, the expression of germ cell marker genes, cvh, c-kit, integrin α6 and integrin β1, was observed to upregulate while activating JNK signaling significantly. Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACs) analysis showed that the proportion of cvh+ and integrin α6+ cells in the overexpression group was significantly higher than which in the RA + shRNA-MAPK8 group. In in vivo situations, shRNA-MAPK8 could stably express in chicken embryos and significantly down-regulate expression of MAPK8 and downstream genes in JNK signaling pathway. With PAS stain, we found that PGCs (primordial germ cells) was significantly decreased after inhibiting MAPK8. With real-time quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western Blot, we identified that reproductive related genes expression was significantly suppressed after inhibiting MAPK8 in vivo. We preliminarily concluded that knockdown/ overexpression of MAPK8 could affect differentiation of ESC by inhibiting/activating JNK signal.
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