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Partial Reprogramming of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes into Neurons

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, March 2017
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Title
Partial Reprogramming of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes into Neurons
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Scientific Reports, March 2017
DOI 10.1038/srep44840
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Wenpo Chuang, Arun Sharma, Praveen Shukla, Guang Li, Moritz Mall, Kuppusamy Rajarajan, Oscar J. Abilez, Ryoko Hamaguchi, Joseph C. Wu, Marius Wernig, Sean M. Wu

Abstract

Direct reprogramming of somatic cells has been demonstrated, however, it is unknown whether electrophysiologically-active somatic cells derived from separate germ layers can be interconverted. We demonstrate that partial direct reprogramming of mesoderm-derived cardiomyocytes into neurons is feasible, generating cells exhibiting structural and electrophysiological properties of both cardiomyocytes and neurons. Human and mouse pluripotent stem cell-derived CMs (PSC-CMs) were transduced with the neurogenic transcription factors Brn2, Ascl1, Myt1l and NeuroD. We found that CMs adopted neuronal morphologies as early as day 3 post-transduction while still retaining a CM gene expression profile. At week 1 post-transduction, we found that reprogrammed CMs expressed neuronal markers such as Tuj1, Map2, and NCAM. At week 3 post-transduction, mature neuronal markers such as vGlut and synapsin were observed. With single-cell qPCR, we temporally examined CM gene expression and observed increased expression of neuronal markers Dcx, Map2, and Tubb3. Patch-clamp analysis confirmed the neuron-like electrophysiological profile of reprogrammed CMs. This study demonstrates that PSC-CMs are amenable to partial neuronal conversion, yielding a population of cells exhibiting features of both neurons and CMs.

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Unknown 48 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 19%
Researcher 7 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Student > Master 4 8%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 13 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 13%
Neuroscience 3 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 6%
Engineering 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 12 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 February 2024.
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#1,876,546
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