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  • Developmental Biology
  • Stem Cell Biology
  • Epigenetics

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  • Ensuring lineage segregation while maintaining cellular plasticity is a key developmental challenge.
  • Pluripotency progression serves as a model to understand coordinated developmental transitions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review how developmental transitions are coordinated by redeployments of cellular components.
  • To highlight mechanisms conferring robustness to the naïve to primed pluripotency transition.
  • To propose the concept of Molecular Versatility.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on developmental transitions and pluripotency.
  • Analysis of the roles of extrinsic cues (FGF, WNT, Activin/Nodal, Netrin-1).
  • Examination of transcription factor (Oct4, Nanog) context- and stoichiometry-dependent actions.
  • Investigation of epigenetic regulator (enhancers, promoters, TrxG, PRC) reconfigurations.

Main Results:

  • Developmental transitions are coordinated by redeployments, not global resettings, of cellular components.
  • Specific extrinsic cues, transcription factors, and epigenetic regulators contribute to robust pluripotency transitions.
  • Molecular Versatility is proposed as a unifying concept for repurposed molecular functions.

Conclusions:

  • Cellular components are dynamically redeployed during development, facilitating transitions without complete resets.
  • A combination of extrinsic signals, transcription factor dynamics, and epigenetic changes ensures robust pluripotency.
  • Molecular Versatility captures the adaptability of molecules in different stem cell contexts.