Closing the mitochondrial permeability transition pore in hiPSC-derived endothelial cells induces glycocalyx formation and functional maturation.

ABSTRACT: Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are used to study organogenesis and model disease as well as being developed for regenerative medicine. Endothelial cells are among the many cell types differentiated from hiPSC, but their maturation and stabilization fall short of that in adult endothelium. We examined whether shear stress alone or in combination with pericyte co-culture would induce flow alignment and maturation of hiPSC-derived endothelial cells (hiPSC-ECs) but found no effects comparable to those in primary microvascular EC. In addition, hiPSC-ECs lacked a luminal glycocalyx, critical for vasculature homeostasis, shear stress sensing and signalling. We noted however, that hiPSC-EC have dysfunctional mitochondrial permeability transition pores, resulting in reduced mitochond

INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 4000

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Shawez Khan 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-8392 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress