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Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cortical neurons potentially present a powerful new model to understand corticogenesis and neurological disease. Previous work has established that differentiation protocols can produce cortical neurons, but little has been done to characterize these at c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26740550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddv637 |
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author | Handel, Adam E. Chintawar, Satyan Lalic, Tatjana Whiteley, Emma Vowles, Jane Giustacchini, Alice Argoud, Karene Sopp, Paul Nakanishi, Mahito Bowden, Rory Cowley, Sally Newey, Sarah Akerman, Colin Ponting, Chris P. Cader, M. Zameel |
author_facet | Handel, Adam E. Chintawar, Satyan Lalic, Tatjana Whiteley, Emma Vowles, Jane Giustacchini, Alice Argoud, Karene Sopp, Paul Nakanishi, Mahito Bowden, Rory Cowley, Sally Newey, Sarah Akerman, Colin Ponting, Chris P. Cader, M. Zameel |
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description | Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cortical neurons potentially present a powerful new model to understand corticogenesis and neurological disease. Previous work has established that differentiation protocols can produce cortical neurons, but little has been done to characterize these at cellular resolution. In particular, it is unclear to what extent in vitro two-dimensional, relatively disordered culture conditions recapitulate the development of in vivo cortical layer identity. Single-cell multiplex reverse transcriptase-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to interrogate the expression of genes previously implicated in cortical layer or phenotypic identity in individual cells. Totally, 93.6% of single cells derived from iPSCs expressed genes indicative of neuronal identity. High proportions of single neurons derived from iPSCs expressed glutamatergic receptors and synaptic genes. And, 68.4% of iPSC-derived neurons expressing at least one layer marker could be assigned to a laminar identity using canonical cortical layer marker genes. We compared single-cell RNA-seq of our iPSC-derived neurons to available single-cell RNA-seq data from human fetal and adult brain and found that iPSC-derived cortical neurons closely resembled primary fetal brain cells. Unexpectedly, a subpopulation of iPSC-derived neurons co-expressed canonical fetal deep and upper cortical layer markers. However, this appeared to be concordant with data from primary cells. Our results therefore provide reassurance that iPSC-derived cortical neurons are highly similar to primary cortical neurons at the level of single cells but suggest that current layer markers, although effective, may not be able to disambiguate cortical layer identity in all cells. |
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spelling | pubmed-47540512016-02-16 Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics Handel, Adam E. Chintawar, Satyan Lalic, Tatjana Whiteley, Emma Vowles, Jane Giustacchini, Alice Argoud, Karene Sopp, Paul Nakanishi, Mahito Bowden, Rory Cowley, Sally Newey, Sarah Akerman, Colin Ponting, Chris P. Cader, M. Zameel Hum Mol Genet Articles Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cortical neurons potentially present a powerful new model to understand corticogenesis and neurological disease. Previous work has established that differentiation protocols can produce cortical neurons, but little has been done to characterize these at cellular resolution. In particular, it is unclear to what extent in vitro two-dimensional, relatively disordered culture conditions recapitulate the development of in vivo cortical layer identity. Single-cell multiplex reverse transcriptase-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to interrogate the expression of genes previously implicated in cortical layer or phenotypic identity in individual cells. Totally, 93.6% of single cells derived from iPSCs expressed genes indicative of neuronal identity. High proportions of single neurons derived from iPSCs expressed glutamatergic receptors and synaptic genes. And, 68.4% of iPSC-derived neurons expressing at least one layer marker could be assigned to a laminar identity using canonical cortical layer marker genes. We compared single-cell RNA-seq of our iPSC-derived neurons to available single-cell RNA-seq data from human fetal and adult brain and found that iPSC-derived cortical neurons closely resembled primary fetal brain cells. Unexpectedly, a subpopulation of iPSC-derived neurons co-expressed canonical fetal deep and upper cortical layer markers. However, this appeared to be concordant with data from primary cells. Our results therefore provide reassurance that iPSC-derived cortical neurons are highly similar to primary cortical neurons at the level of single cells but suggest that current layer markers, although effective, may not be able to disambiguate cortical layer identity in all cells. Oxford University Press 2016-03-01 2016-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4754051/ /pubmed/26740550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddv637 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Handel, Adam E. Chintawar, Satyan Lalic, Tatjana Whiteley, Emma Vowles, Jane Giustacchini, Alice Argoud, Karene Sopp, Paul Nakanishi, Mahito Bowden, Rory Cowley, Sally Newey, Sarah Akerman, Colin Ponting, Chris P. Cader, M. Zameel Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics |
title | Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics |
title_full | Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics |
title_fullStr | Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics |
title_short | Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics |
title_sort | assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26740550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddv637 |
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