Project description:Using conditional immortalization, we generated the first lines of human cardiomyocytes with preserved cardiomyogenic differentiation capacity. These human immortalized Atrial Myocytes (hiAMs) display strict control over proliferation and differentiation, allowing massive (quadrillion-fold) expansion followed by differentiation towards fully functional (i.e. excitable and contractile) human atrial cardiomyocytes. Here, we compared the transcriptome of three hiAM monoclones after differentiation (D12) with hESC-derived AMs (D28) using RNA-sequencing.
Project description:Using conditional immortalization, we generated the first lines of human cardiomyocytes with preserved cardiomyogenic differentiation capacity. These human immortalized Atrial Myocytes (hiAMs) display strict control over proliferation and differentiation, allowing massive (quadrillion-fold) expansion followed by differentiation towards fully functional (i.e. excitable and contractile) human atrial cardiomyocytes. Here, we characterized the transcriptome of three hiAM monoclones during proliferation (D0) and after differentiation (D12) using RNA-sequencing.
Project description:Tbx20 is a transcription factor known to play important roles in embryonic and adult mouse heart function. Our goal in this work was to better understand the function of this gene in embryonic (E11.5) mouse cardiomyocytes that form the developing chambers, expanding our knowledge of its role in heart development. To elucidate the role of Tbx20 in mouse cardiomyocytes, we generated conditional Tbx20 knockout and compared 4 samples with 4 samples of wild-type cardiomyocytes. We found evidence of regulation of cell cycle genes by Tbx20, which are involved in proliferation. In addition, Tbx20 seems to bind and regulate an enhancer of CoupTFII in the atrium, a gene involved in atrial development.
Project description:Embryonic cardiomyocytes possess the plasticity to choose between atrial and ventricular fates. For a limited window of time, the transcription factor COUP-TFII (Nr2f2) sufficiently and essentially confers the atrial identity through direct and indirect regulation of nearly half of chamber specific genes. Examination of COUP-TFII binding sites in embryonic artia
Project description:Central questions like cardiomyocyte subtype emergence during cardiogenesis or availability of cardiomyocyte subtypes for cell replacement therapy require selective identification and purification of atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes. However, characterization and implementation of pure cardiomyocyte subtypes is still challenging due to technical limitations. Our aim was to identify surface markers enabling the selective detection and purification of atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes from mouse hearts. In a surface marker screen we found differential expression of CD49f in atrial and ventricular embryonic cardiomyocytes (E13.5). By flow cytometry we could correlate a high CD49f expression with MLC-2a on the single cell level; a low CD49f expression corresponded to MLC-2v. Based on the persisting differential CD49f expression we developed purification protocols for cardiomyocytes subtypes from the developing mouse heart. Flow sorting of E15.5 hearts into ErbB-2+/CD49flow and ErbB-2+/CD49fhigh cells led to a selective depletion (CD49flow) or enrichment of MLC-2a+ cells (CD49fhigh). We found a corresponding CD49f-dependent distribution of MLC-2a when pre-enriched neonatal cardiomyocytes (P2) were flow-sorted into CD49flow and CD49fhigh. Atrial and ventricular identity was confirmed by expression profiling and patch clamp analysis of sorted embryonic hearts, which unequivocally demonstrated that the sorted cells were viable and functional. For the first time, we introduce a non-genetic, antibody-based approach to specifically isolate atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes from mouse hearts of various developmental stages. This newly gained capability of obtaining highly pure, viable cells will facilitate in-depths characterization of the individual cellular subsets and will aid translational research and therapeutic applications. The dataset comprises four different cardiomyocytes subtypes from the developing mouse heart. Embryonic (E15.5) hearts were dissociated and flow-sorted into ErbB-2+/CD49flow and ErbB-2+/CD49fhigh cardiomyocytes. Neonatal (P2) hearts were dissociated, contaminating non-myocytes were removed by MACS depletion, and the purified cardiomyocytes were flow-sorted into CD49flow and CD49fhigh cardiomyocytes. Four biological replicates were available for each sample groups. Microarray analysis was conducted on the Agilent Whole Mouse Genome Oligo Microarray 8x60K platform.
Project description:We report the application of a pericentriolar material 1 (PCM-1) based cardiomyocyte-specific nuclear isolation protocol on human cardiac tissue to specifically ask what transcriptional changes occur in cardiomyocytes of humans with atrial fibrillation. We performed RNA-sequencing on the cardiomyocyte-specific nuclear RNA and found that there are more differentially dysregulated (1343) than similarly regulated transcripts (99) in the right versus left atria. This study is the first of its kind aimed at understanding the transcriptional changes that occur specifically in the left and right atrial cardiomyocytes of humans with atrial fibrillation.
Project description:Transcription factor overexpression screen in cardiomyocytes for differentiation into atrial, ventricular, or mature cardiomyocytes
Project description:To gain further insight into the mechanisms underlying the different response of atrial- and ventricular-like cardiomyocytes to ibrutinib, we performed RNA-seq in ibrutinib- or vehicle-treated atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes and investigate the differential expression genes as well as enriched molecular pathways.
Project description:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common clinical arrhythmia and is associated with heart failure and stroke. The primary substrate for AF is poorly understood due to limited access to primary human tissue and the lack of mechanistically faithful in vitro or in vivo models. We used an MYH6:mCherry knock-in reporter line to generate and purify human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes displaying electrophysiological and molecular characteristics of atrial cells (hPSC-atrial cells). We modeled human MYL4 mutants, one of the few definitive genetic causes of AF. Single cell transcriptomics on hPSC-atrial cells (WT and MYL4 mutant) was performed to study changes in gene expression among the cell types that exist in atrial lineage.