التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Characterization of iCell cardiomyocytes using single-cell RNA-sequencing methods. |
| المؤلفون: |
Schmid, Christina1,2 (AUTHOR) christina.schmid@boehringer-ingelheim.com, Wohnhaas, Christian T.3,4 (AUTHOR) christian_thaddaeus.wohnhaas@boehringer-ingelheim.com, Hildebrandt, Tobias3 (AUTHOR), Baum, Patrick5 (AUTHOR) patrick.baum@boehringer-ingelheim.com, Rast, Georg1 (AUTHOR) georg.rast@boehringer-ingelheim.com |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Pharmacological & Toxicological Methods. Nov2020, Vol. 106, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*PLURIPOTENT stem cells, *INDUCED pluripotent stem cells, *CLUSTER analysis (Statistics), *HEART cells, *TOXICITY testing, *CELL cycle |
| مستخلص: |
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes are being evaluated for their use in pharmacological and toxicological testing, particularly for electrophysiological side effects. However, little is known about the composition of the commercially available iCell cardiomyocyte (Fuijifilm Cellular Dynamics) cultures and the transcriptomic phenotype of individual cells. We characterized iCell cardiomyocytes (assumed to be a mixture of nodal-, atrial-, and ventricular-like cardiomyocytes together with potential residual non-myocytes) using bulk RNA-sequencing, followed by investigation of cellular heterogeneity using two different single-cell RNA-sequencing platforms. Bulk RNA-sequencing identified key cardiac markers (TNNT2, MYL7) as well as fibroblast associated genes (P4HB, VIM), and cardiac ion channels in the iCell cardiomyocyte culture. High-resolution single cell RNA-sequencing demonstrated that both, cardiac and fibroblast-related genes were co-expressed throughout the cell population. This approach resolved two cell clusters within iCell cardiomyocytes. Interestingly, these clusters could not be associated with known cardiac subtypes. However, transcripts of ion channels potentially useful as functional markers for cardiac subtypes were below the detection limits of the single-cell approaches used. Instead, one cluster (10.8% of the cells) is defined by co-expression of cardiac and cell cycle-related genes (e.g. TOP2A). Incorporation of bromodeoxyuridine further confirmed the capability of iCell cardiomyocytes to enter cell cycle. The co-expression of cardiac related genes with cell cycle or fibroblast related genes may be interpreted either as aberrant or as an immature feature. However, this excludes the presence of a non-cardiomyocyte sub-population and indicates that some cardiomyocytes themselves enter cell cycle. • Characterization of iCell cardiomyocytes using bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing. • Identification of a distinct cardiomyocyte cell cycle cluster. • Co-expression of cardiac with cell cycle or fibroblast related genes may be interpreted as aberrant or immature. • Exclusion of the presence of a non-cardiomyocyte sub-population. • No indication for sub-populations associated with known cardiac subtypes by unbiased cluster analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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