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WDR36 regulates trophectoderm differentiation during human preimplantation embryonic development through glycolytic metabolism

GSE276344 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 12 samples Submitted 2025/04/02 Platform GPL24676
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 12 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Samples
12 samples: 6 conditions, mostly in duplicateGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
WDR36 Regulates Trophectoderm Differentiation During Human Preimplantation Embryonic Development Through Glycolytic MetabolismAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
Mammalian pre-implantation development is a complex process involving sophisticated regulatory dynamics. WD repeat domain 36 (WDR36) is known to play a critical role in mouse early embryonic development, but its regulatory functions in human embryogenesis is still elusive due to limited access to human embryos. The human pluripotent stem cell-derived blastocyst-like structure, termed a blastoid, offer an alternative means to study human development in a dish.
Read the full summary ↓
In this study, after verifying that WDR36 inhibition disrupted polarization in mouse early embryos, we further demonstrated that WDR36 interference could block human blastoid formation, dominantly hindering the trophectoderm lineage commitment. Both transcriptomics and targeted metabolomics analyses revealed that WDR36 interference downregulated glucose metabolism. WDR36 can interact with glycolytic metabolic protein LDHA, thereby positively regulating glycolysis during the late stage of human blastoid development. Taken together, our study has established a mechanistic connection between WDR36, glucose metabolism, and cell fate determination during early embryonic lineage commitment, which may provide potential insights into novel therapeutic targets for early adverse pregnancy interventions.
Published in
WDR36 Regulates Trophectoderm Differentiation During Human Preimplantation Embryonic Development Through Glycolytic Metabolism
An S, Hou S, Xu F et al. · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 2025 · PMID 39656902 · doi:10.1002/advs.202412222
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE276344_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1156759 and SRA study SRP530767. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
6 conditions, mostly in duplicate
D4_Spheroid_Ctrl ×2 D4_Spheroid_DOX ×2 D6_Blastoid_Ctrl ×2 D6_Blastoid_DOX ×2 D6_Spheroid_Ctrl ×2 D6_Spheroid_DOX ×2

Supports a between-group comparison across 12 samples.

How we read this: 6 replicated groups read from 12 sample titles; they account for 12 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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