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Karimi T, Pan Z, Potaman VN, Alt EU. Conversion of Unmodified Stem Cells to Pacemaker Cells by Overexpression of Key Developmental Genes. Cells 2023; 12:1381. [PMID: 37408215 PMCID: PMC10216671 DOI: 10.3390/cells12101381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Arrhythmias of the heart are currently treated by implanting electronic pacemakers and defibrillators. Unmodified adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ASCs) have the potential to differentiate into all three germ layers but have not yet been tested for the generation of pacemaker and Purkinje cells. We investigated if-based on overexpression of dominant conduction cell-specific genes in ASCs-biological pacemaker cells could be induced. Here we show that by overexpression of certain genes that are active during the natural development of the conduction system, the differentiation of ASCs to pacemaker and Purkinje-like cells is feasible. Our study revealed that the most effective procedure consisted of short-term upregulation of gene combinations SHOX2-TBX5-HCN2, and to a lesser extent SHOX2-TBX3-HCN2. Single-gene expression protocols were ineffective. Future clinical implantation of such pacemaker and Purkinje cells, derived from unmodified ASCs of the same patient, could open up new horizons for the treatment of arrythmias.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tahereh Karimi
- Heart and Vascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Science Center, 1430 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA;
- Alliance of Cardiovascular Researchers, 2211 Augusta Dr #10, Houston, TX 77057, USA
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- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Alliance of Cardiovascular Researchers, 2211 Augusta Dr #10, Houston, TX 77057, USA
- InGeneron Inc., 8205 El Rio Street, Houston, TX 77054, USA
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- Heart and Vascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Science Center, 1430 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA;
- Alliance of Cardiovascular Researchers, 2211 Augusta Dr #10, Houston, TX 77057, USA
- InGeneron Inc., 8205 El Rio Street, Houston, TX 77054, USA
- Sanford Health, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA
- Isar Klinikum Munich, Sonnenstr 24-26, 80331 Munich, Germany
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Yu Y, Liu F, He L, Ramakrishna S, Zheng M, Bu L, Xu Y. Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Reveal Bradycardiac Effects Caused by Co-Administration of Sofosbuvir and Amiodarone. Assay Drug Dev Technol 2018; 16:222-229. [PMID: 29847141 DOI: 10.1089/adt.2017.834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Co-administration of sofosbuvir, an anti-hepatitis C virus medication, and antiarrhythmic amiodarone causes symptomatic severe bradycardia in patients and animal models. However, in a few in vitro studies, the combination of sofosbuvir and amiodarone resulted in tachycardiac effects in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs). This discrepancy may be attributable to the use of immature hiPSC-CMs in the in vitro studies. To address this, we evaluated the ability of our in-house hiPSC-CMs to assess the interactions between sofosbuvir and amiodarone in vitro. We performed whole-cell patch recordings on hiPSC-CMs to examine the cardiac effect of sofosbuvir and amiodarone, alone or in combination. We found that sofosbuvir and amiodarone caused bradycardiac effects (the beating rate decreased to 75% of the vehicle control, P < 0.001) on our hiPSC-CMs when applied in combination, but they had no significant effect when applied alone. Furthermore, the bradycardiac effect was membrane potential dependent: it increased with depolarization. This raised the possibility that the bradycardiac effects in vivo may originate in nodal cells, which have a more depolarized resting membrane potential compared with ventricular cells. The bradycardiac effects of sofosbuvir plus amiodarone in vitro are consistent with the clinical phenotype and suggest that our hiPSC-CMs may serve as a useful tool in assessing cardiac safety during drug discovery and development process.
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- Yankun Yu
- 1 Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Ministry of Education CNS Regeneration Collaborative Joint Laboratory, Jinan University , Guangzhou, China .,2 Guangdong iPSyte Biosciences Co., Ltd. , Guangzhou, China .,3 State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University , Guangzhou, China
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- 1 Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Ministry of Education CNS Regeneration Collaborative Joint Laboratory, Jinan University , Guangzhou, China
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- 4 Key Laboratory of Biomaterials of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University , Guangzhou, China
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- 1 Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Ministry of Education CNS Regeneration Collaborative Joint Laboratory, Jinan University , Guangzhou, China .,5 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore , Singapore, Singapore
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- 2 Guangdong iPSyte Biosciences Co., Ltd. , Guangzhou, China
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- 6 Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Cell Biology, The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine , New York, New York
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- 1 Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Ministry of Education CNS Regeneration Collaborative Joint Laboratory, Jinan University , Guangzhou, China .,7 Co-Innovation Center of Neuroregeneration, Nantong University , Nantong, China
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Berndt R, Albrecht M. Reprogrammierte Monozyten in der kardiovaskulären Therapie. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR HERZ THORAX UND GEFASSCHIRURGIE 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00398-017-0204-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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