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Direct conversion of normal and patient human fibroblasts into neuronal cells

ABSTRACT: Neuronal conversion from human fibroblasts can be induced by lineage-specific transcription factors, holding great promise for human neurological disease modeling and regenerative medicine. However, the introduction of ectopic genes limits their therapeutic applications. Here, we report that neuronal cells could be directly induced from human fibroblasts by a chemical cocktail of seven small molecules bypassing neural progenitor stage. These chemical-induced neuronal cells (hciN cells) resembled hES-derived neurons regarding morphology, gene expression profiles, and electrophysiological properties. Our further experiments show that hciN cells were able to develop into mature neurons in vivo in embryonic mouse brain. Moreover, this approach was further applied to induce hciN cells from fibroblasts of familial Alzheimer’s disease patients and the hciN cells showed abnormal Aβ production. Together, we established a transgene-free chemical approach to directly induce neuronal cells from human fibroblasts, thus providing alternative strategies for modeling of related neurological diseases and regenerative medicine. We used microarray to comparethe global gene expression patterns of hES-derived neurons (control neurons), HAFs, pre-hciN cells (VCRFSGY-treated HAFs at day 3 and 7) and hciN cells (induced with VCRFSGY for 14 days)

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE69480 | GEO | 2015/07/28

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA285692

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Direct conversion of normal and patient human fibroblasts into neuronal cells

Project description:Neuronal conversion from human fibroblasts can be induced by lineage-specific transcription factors, holding great promise for human neurological disease modeling and regenerative medicine. However, the introduction of ectopic genes limits their therapeutic applications. Here, we report that neuronal cells could be directly induced from human fibroblasts by a chemical cocktail of seven small molecules bypassing neural progenitor stage. These chemical-induced neuronal cells (hciN cells) resembled hES-derived neurons regarding morphology, gene expression profiles, and electrophysiological properties. Our further experiments show that hciN cells were able to develop into mature neurons in vivo in embryonic mouse brain. Moreover, this approach was further applied to induce hciN cells from fibroblasts of familial Alzheimer’s disease patients and the hciN cells showed abnormal A? production. Together, we established a transgene-free chemical approach to directly induce neuronal cells from human fibroblasts, thus providing alternative strategies for modeling of related neurological diseases and regenerative medicine. We used microarray to comparethe global gene expression patterns of hES-derived neurons (control neurons), HAFs, pre-hciN cells (VCRFSGY-treated HAFs at day 3 and 7) and hciN cells (induced with VCRFSGY for 14 days) hciNs RNA samples were selected at different time points, i.e. pre-hciN cells (VCRFSGY-treated HAFs at day 3 and 7) and hciN cells (induced with VCRFSGY for 14 days), to study molecular mechanism and marker gene expression happened at the early stage of chemical induction by compared with hES-neurons (positve control) and HAFs (negtive control).

2015-07-28 | E-GEOD-69480 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Sequential regulatory loops as key gatekeepers for neuronal reprogramming in human cells [RNA-seq]

Project description:Direct conversion of somatic cells into neurons holds great promise for regenerative medicine. However, neuronal conversion is relatively inefficient in human cells compared to mouse cells. It has been unclear what might be the key barriers to reprogramming in human cells. We recently elucidated an RNA program mediated by the polypyrimidine tract binding protein PTB to convert mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) into functional neurons. In human adult fibroblasts (HAFs), however, we unexpectedly found that invoking the documented PTB–REST–miR-124 loop generates only immature neurons. We now report that the functionality requires sequential inactivation of PTB and the PTB paralog nPTB in HAFs. Inactivation of nPTB triggers another self-enforcing loop essential for neuronal maturation, which comprises nPTB, the transcription factor BRN2, and miR-9. These findings suggest that two separate gatekeepers control neuronal conversion and maturation and consecutively overcoming these gatekeepers enables deterministic reprogramming of HAFs into functional neurons.

2016-04-25 | GSE77523 | GEO

Sequential regulatory loops as key gatekeepers for neuronal reprogramming in human cells [ChIP-seq]

2016-04-25 | GSE74814 | GEO

Transcriptional profiling in embryonic stem cells

Project description:Human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells (both embryonic and induced) have emerged as a powerful tool for developmental biology studies, genetic and chemical screens, and regenerative medicine for neurological diseases, as they can generate different neuronal subtypes. We performed genome-wide expression profiling in the embryonic stem cells in three developmental stages (day0, day 15 and day 45).

2012-12-20 | E-MTAB-1080 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Global transcriptional analysis of mouse fibroblasts, chemically-induced neurons (neuron-like cells) from mouse fibroblasts and mouse primary cortical neurons by RNA-seq

Project description:Recently, direct reprogramming between divergent lineages has been achieved by introducing cell-fate-determining transcription factors. This progress may provide alternative cell resources for drug discovery and regenerative medicine. However, the genetic manipulation may limit the future application of these approaches. In this study, we identified a novel small-molecule cocktail that directly converted fibroblasts into neuronal cell fate with a high yield up after 16-days of induction. After a further maturation stage, these chemically-induced neurons (CiNs) possessed neuron-specific expression patterns, generated action potentials and formed functional synapses. Gene expression profiling revealed the activation of neuronal specific genes in the early stage of small molecule treatment. Overall, our findings prove the principle of chemically-induced direct reprogramming of somatic cell fates across germ layers without genetic manipulation, and show that cell fate can be manipulated through disrupting initial cell program and activating target cell master genes with pure chemicals. Total of 15 samples were analyzed, including mouse fibroblasts, mouse cortical primary neurons and chemically-induced neurons by different duration of chemical induction (Day0, Day4, Day8, Day19) and different small-molecule cocktail (FICB, FICB-1)

2015-08-12 | E-GEOD-68715 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Linking immortalization to direct conversion of human fibroblasts to neurons

Project description:Direct conversion from fibroblasts to neurons is a potential cell replacement therapy for neurological disorders, and a variety of combinations of transcription factors have been tried. We notice that the efficiency of conversion from aging fibroblasts was much lower than in early stage cells, which is consistent with the notion that cellular senescence impairs conversion of fibroblasts to neurons. Here, we found that the transient knockdown of the p16Ink4a/p19Arf locus was sufficient to convert human fibroblasts to neurons. Futhermore, expression of hTERT alone, another mechanism behind immortalization, also induced neuron conversion. Our results show that the acquisition of immortality is a crucial step for the conversion of human fibroblasts into induced neurons. Transient knockdown of p16/p19 or p53 expression or exogenous overexpression of hTERT can induce primary fibroblasts to immortality. In the following, treated cells were cultured in neuron-induction medium. We can observe the morphology change and detect the neuronal markers. Also, some of the induced neurons could generate action potentials and neurotransmitter-induced currents in optimal conditions.

2012-12-28 | E-GEOD-43175 | biostudies-arrayexpress

NEUROD1 efficiently converts peripheral blood cells into neurons with partial reprogramming by pluripotency factors

Project description:The direct reprogramming of cells has tremendous potential in in vitro neurological studies. Previous attempts to convert blood cells into induced neurons have presented several challenges, necessitating the development of a less invasive, efficient, rapid, and convenient approach. The current study introduces an optimized method for converting somatic cells into neurons using a nonsurgical approach that employs peripheral blood cells instead of fibroblasts. We have demonstrated the efficacy of a unique combination of transcription factors, including NEUROD1, and four Yamanaka reprogramming factors (OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC), in generating glutamatergic neurons within a three-week period. This approach, which requires only five pivotal factors (NEUROD1, OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC), has the potential to create functional neurons and circumvents the need for induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) intermediates, as evidenced by gene expression and single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analyses. Our method presents a rapid solution for modeling neuronal diseases with significant implications for drug discovery and personalized medicine and offers a patient-friendly alternative to traditional fibroblast reprogramming techniques.

2024-02-02 | GSE254389 | GEO

Profiling gene expression of ETV2-induced vascular endothelial cells (ETVECs)

Project description:ETV2 induces expression of endothelial-specific genes in primary human adult skin fibroblasts (HAFs) Human unbillical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) are used as a control 32 days after ETV2 induction into HAFs, cells are recognized as ETVECs. ETVECs were created from three independent skin donor. Each number of ETVEC is correspond to the number of HAF.

2013-07-19 | E-GEOD-48980 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Next-generation sequencing analysis of chemically induced neurons from wild type (WT), Actb+/- (HET) and Actb-/- (KO) mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs)

Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to use NGS to perform transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) to find the difference of the transcriptomes of chemically induced neurons from wild type (WT), Actb+/- (HET) and Actb-/- (KO) mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Methods: MEFs were reprogramed into neurons by small chemical cocktails. Small chemical molecules were dissolved and diluted in DMSO and used at the following final concentrations: ISX9: 20 mM; Forskolin: 50 mM; CHIR99021: 20 mM; and I-BET151: 2 mM. In addition to the small molecules, the neuron induction medium (Neurobasal Medium) contains the following supplements: N2 (1X) and B27 (2X) supplements, GlutaMAX (1X), penicillin-streptomycin (100 µg/ml), bFGF (20 ng/ml), 100 µM cAMP, Non-essential Amino Acid (1X) and Trace element B (1X). MEFs were seeded to Matrigel-coated plate (1:30 dilution in pre-cold PBS and coat overnight at 4 oC, at a density of 200,000 cells per well in 6-well plate and 10,000 cells/well in 96 well plate. The MEFs were cultured in DMEM until confluent. When the cells are confluent, the DMEM was replaced with neuron induction medium with 4 small molecules. The induction medium was refreshed every two days for the first week and every 3 days for the remaining induction period until day 20. 3 biological replicates of total RNA were used for RNA-seq library preparation. Results: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we identified neuronal gene programs induced during direct reprograming. The induction of neuronal programs were impaired in neurons from Actb-/- mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Conclusions: Our study shows that neuronal program induction was impaired in chemically induced neurons from Actb-/- mouse embryonic fibroblasts.

2018-04-27 | GSE113733 | GEO

MicroRNAs and Ascl1 facilitate direct conversion of porcine fibroblasts into induced neurons

Project description:Direct neuronal conversion describes the process of generating induced neurons from somatic cells such as fibroblasts by overexpressing cell type-specific transcription factors. This was first achieved by expressing Brn2, Ascl1 and MytL1 in mouse fibroblasts, and was later achieved in human cells by inclusion of additional factors such as NeuroD1. Here, we present the first protocol for directly converting porcine fibroblasts into induced neurons. We used lentivirus-mediated delivery of previously identified neuronal-specifying transcription factors and microRNAs and evaluated morphology and neuronal marker expression after ten days of conversion. We found that Ascl1 and microRNAs, miR-9/9* and miR-124 together generated more neuronal cells than other conditions tested. The porcine induced neurons expressed common mature markers such as MAP2 and Synaptophysin after four weeks of conversion. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that fibroblast-specific signatures were silenced early in the conversion process, while the neuronal programs increased and matured during conversion. We generated a heterogenous population of glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons.

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