Putting Stem Cells on a Low-Fat Diet Switches Their Pluripotent State.

Jiang, Zongmin; Guang, Lu; Li, Lei; Shyh-Chang, Ng · Cell Stem Cell · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Previous work demonstrating the importance of stem cell metabolism in regulating development ignited a debate on how intrinsic versus extrinsic conditions influence metabolic programming of epigenetics. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Cornacchia et al. show that exogenous lipids regulate an acetyl-CoA-dependent switch to influence the intrinsic pluripotent state of hPSCs.

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