The involvement of microRNAs (miRNAs) in orchestrating self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells has been revealed in a number of recent studies. And while in human pluripotent stem cells, miRNAs have been directly linked to the core pluripotency network, including the cell cycle regulation and the maintenance of the self-renewing capacity, their role in the onset of differentiation in other contexts, such as determination of neural cell fate, remains poorly described. To bridge this gap, we used three model cell types to study miRNA expression patterns: human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), hESCs-derived self-renewing neural stem cells (NSCs), and differentiating NSCs. The comprehensive miRNA profiling presented here reveals novel sets of miRNAs differentially expressed during human neural cell fate determination in vitro. Furthermore, we report a miRNA expression profile of self-renewing human NSCs, which has been lacking to this date. Our data also indicates that miRNA clusters enriched in NSCs share the target-determining seed sequence with cell cycle regulatory miRNAs expressed in pluripotent hESCs. Lastly, our mechanistic experiments confirmed that cluster miR-17-92, one of the NSCs-enriched clusters, is directly transcriptionally regulated by transcription factor c-MYC.

Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Histology and Embryology Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Internal Medicine Hematology and Oncology University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Division of Neuropathology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA USA

International Clinical Research Center St Anne's University Hospital Brno Czech Republic

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