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STEM CELL REPORTS
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 348-359Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2015.01.002
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [51066]
- A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore) National Science Scholarship
- US National Institutes of Health (NIH) [UH3-EB017103]
- Koch Institute Support (core) Grant from the National Cancer Institute [P30-CA14051]
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Malaria eradication is a major goal in public health but is challenged by relapsing malaria species, expanding drug resistance, and the influence of host genetics on antimalarial drug efficacy. To overcome these hurdles, it is imperative to establish in vitro assays of liver-stage malaria for drug testing. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) potentially allow the assessment of donor-specific drug responses, and iPSC-derived hepatocyte-like cells (iHLCs) can facilitate the study of host genetics on host-pathogen interactions and the discovery of novel targets for antimalarial drug development. We establish in vitro liver-stage malaria infections in iHLCs using P. berghei, P. yoelii, P. falciparum, and P. vivax and show that differentiating cells acquire permissiveness to malaria infection at the hepatoblast stage. We also characterize antimalarial drug metabolism capabilities of iHLCs using prototypical antimalarial drugs and demonstrate that chemical maturation of iHLCs can improve their potential for antimalarial drug testing applications.
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