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STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 83-93Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2012-0047
Keywords
Embryonic stem cells; Pluripotent stem cells; Hepatocyte differentiation; Cardiac; Neural differentiation; Retinal pigmented epithelium; Differentiation
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- Biocenter Finland for the national platform on stem cells and biomaterials
- Academy of Finland
- Competitive Research Funding of the Pirkanmaa Hospital District
- Alfred Kordelin Foundation
- Finnish Foundation of Cardiovascular Research
- Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
- Paivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Competitive Research Funding of the Uusimaa Hospital District
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Functional hepatocytes, cardiomyocytes, neurons, and retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) or human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) could provide a defined and renewable source of human cells relevant for cell replacement therapies, drug discovery, toxicology testing, and disease modeling. In this study, we investigated the differences between the differentiation potentials of three hESC lines, four retrovirally derived hiPSC lines, and one hiPSC line derived with the nonintegrating Sendai virus technology. Four independent protocols were used for hepatocyte, cardiomyocyte, neuronal, and RPE cell differentiation. Overall, cells differentiated from hESCs and hiPSCs showed functional similarities and similar expression of genes characteristic of specific cell types, and differences between individual cell lines were also detected. Reactivation of transgenic OCT4 was detected specifically during RPE differentiation in the retrovirally derived lines, which may have affected the outcome of differentiation with these hiPSCs. One of the hiPSC lines was inferior in all directions, and it failed to produce hepatocytes. Exogenous KLF4 was incompletely silenced in this cell line. No transgene expression was detected in the Sendai virus-derived hiPSC line. These findings highlight the problems related to transgene expression in retrovirally derived hiPSC lines. STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2013;2:83-93
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