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Generation of functional murine cardiac myocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells.

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BACKGROUND:The recent breakthrough in the generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are almost indistinguishable from embryonic stem (ES) cells, facilitates the generation of murine disease- and human patient-specific stem cell lines. The aim of this study was to characterize the cardiac differentiation potential of a murine iPS cell clone in comparison to a well-established murine ES cell line. METHODS AND RESULTS:With the use of a standard embryoid body-based differentiation protocol for ES cells, iPS cells as well as ES cells were differentiated for 24 days. Although the analyzed iPS cell clone showed a delayed and less efficient formation of beating embryoid bodies compared with the ES cell line, the differentiation resulted in an average of 55% of spontaneously contracting iPS cell embryoid bodies. Analyses on molecular, structural, and functional levels demonstrated that iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes show typical features of ES cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analyses demonstrated expression of marker genes typical for mesoderm, cardiac mesoderm, and cardiomyocytes including Brachyury, mesoderm posterior factor 1 (Mesp1), friend of GATA2 (FOG-2), GATA-binding protein 4 (GATA4), NK2 transcription factor related, locus 5 (Nkx2.5), T-box 5 (Tbx5), T-box 20 (Tbx20), atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), myosin light chain 2 atrial transcripts (MLC2a), myosin light chain 2 ventricular transcripts (MLC2v), alpha-myosin heavy chain (alpha-MHC), and cardiac troponin T in differentiation cultures of iPS cells. Immunocytology confirmed expression of cardiomyocyte-typical proteins including sarcomeric alpha-actinin, titin, cardiac troponin T, MLC2v, and connexin 43. iPS cell cardiomyocytes displayed spontaneous rhythmic intracellular Ca(2+) fluctuations with amplitudes of Ca(2+) transients comparable to ES cell cardiomyocytes. Simultaneous Ca(2+) release within clusters of iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes indicated functional coupling of the cells. Electrophysiological studies with multielectrode arrays demonstrated functionality and presence of the beta-adrenergic and muscarinic signaling cascade in these cells. CONCLUSIONS:iPS cells differentiate into functional cardiomyocytes. In contrast to ES cells, iPS cells allow derivation of autologous functional cardiomyocytes for cellular cardiomyoplasty and myocardial tissue engineering.

journal_name

Circulation

journal_title

Circulation

authors

Mauritz C,Schwanke K,Reppel M,Neef S,Katsirntaki K,Maier LS,Nguemo F,Menke S,Haustein M,Hescheler J,Hasenfuss G,Martin U

doi

10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.778795

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-07-29 00:00:00

pages

507-17

issue

eissn

0009-7322

issn

1524-4539

pii

CIRCULATIONAHA.108.778795

journal_volume

118

pub_type

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Generation of functional murine cardiac myocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells.