Induction of human cardiomyocyte-like cells from fibroblasts by defined factors
| Autor: | Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Ryohei Yozu, Tomohiko Umei, Taketaro Sadahiro, Naoto Muraoka, Keiichi Fukuda, Toshio Kitamura, Kohei Inagawa, Kazutaka Miyamoto, Masaki Ieda, Kiyokazu Kokaji, Ryo Aeba, Shinsuke Yuasa, Kaichiro Kamiya, Rie Wada, Ruri Kaneda, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Yamakawa, Shugo Tohyama |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male Adolescent Muscle Proteins Biology Cell morphology Regenerative medicine Mice medicine Animals Humans Myocytes Cardiac MEF2C Child Fibroblast Transcription factor Cells Cultured Aged Aged 80 and over Regulation of gene expression Multidisciplinary GATA4 Infant Fibroblasts Middle Aged Biological Sciences Cell biology medicine.anatomical_structure Gene Expression Regulation Child Preschool Immunology Female Reprogramming Transcription Factors |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110:12667-12672 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1304053110 |
| Popis: | Heart disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Owing to the limited regenerative capacity of heart tissue, cardiac regenerative therapy has emerged as an attractive approach. Direct reprogramming of human cardiac fibroblasts (HCFs) into cardiomyocytes may hold great potential for this purpose. We reported previously that induced cardiomyocyte-like cells (iCMs) can be directly generated from mouse cardiac fibroblasts in vitro and vivo by transduction of three transcription factors: Gata4, Mef2c, and Tbx5, collectively termed GMT. In the present study, we sought to determine whether human fibroblasts also could be converted to iCMs by defined factors. Our initial finding that GMT was not sufficient for cardiac induction in HCFs prompted us to screen for additional factors to promote cardiac reprogramming by analyzing multiple cardiac-specific gene induction with quantitative RT-PCR. The addition of Mesp1 and Myocd to GMT up-regulated a broader spectrum of cardiac genes in HCFs more efficiently compared with GMT alone. The HCFs and human dermal fibroblasts transduced with GMT, Mesp1, and Myocd (GMTMM) changed the cell morphology from a spindle shape to a rod-like or polygonal shape, expressed multiple cardiac-specific proteins, increased a broad range of cardiac genes and concomitantly suppressed fibroblast genes, and exhibited spontaneous Ca 2+ oscillations. Moreover, the cells matured to exhibit action potentials and contract synchronously in coculture with murine cardiomyocytes. A 5-ethynyl-2′-deoxyuridine assay revealed that the iCMs thus generated do not pass through a mitotic cell state. These findings demonstrate that human fibroblasts can be directly converted to iCMs by defined factors, which may facilitate future applications in regenerative medicine. |
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