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CELL REPORTS
Volume 35, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109075
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- JST-ERATO grant [JPMJER1104]
- JSPS [17H06098]
- Pythias Fund
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation [2019197906]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H06098] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The study revealed that the gonads in mice originate from the T+ primitive streak and WT1(+) posterior intermediate mesoderm, and showed the convergence of genetic programs accompanying the specification of gonadal progenitor cells.
In the early fetal stage, the gonads are bipotent and only later become the ovary or testis, depending on the genetic sex. Despite many studies examining how sex determination occurs from biopotential gonads, the spatial and temporal organization of bipotential gonads and their progenitors is poorly understood. Here, using lineage tracing in mice, we find that the gonads originate from T+ primitive streak through WT1(+) posterior intermediate mesoderm and appear to share origins anteriorly with the adrenal glands and posteriorly with the metanephric mesenchyme. Comparative single-cell transcriptomic analyses in mouse and cynomolgus monkey embryos reveal the convergence of the lineage trajectory and genetic programs accompanying the specification of biopotential gonadal progenitor cells. This process involves sustained expression of epithelial genes and upregulation of mesenchymal genes, thereby conferring an epithelial-mesenchymal hybrid state. Our study provides key resources for understanding early gonadogenesis in mice and primates.
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