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STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT
卷 29, 期 21, 页码 1370-1381出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2020.0069
关键词
cerebral organoid; cortical neuron; transcriptomics
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) Award [R01MH113858]
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award [K08MH086846]
- Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation
- Jeanne Marie Lee-Osterhaus Family Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
- Phyllis & Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute
- National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Scientist Development Award [K08MH086846]
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be differentiated along various neuronal lineages to generate two-dimensional neuronal cultures as well as three-dimensional brain organoids. Such iPSC-derived cellular models are being utilized to study the basic biology of human neuronal function and to interrogate the molecular underpinnings of disease biology. The different cellular models generated from iPSCs have varying properties in terms of the diversity and organization of the cells as well as the cellular functions that are present. To understand transcriptomic differences in iPSC-derived monolayer neuronal cultures and three-dimensional brain organoids, we differentiated eight human iPSC lines from healthy control subjects to generate cerebral organoids and cortical neuron monolayer cultures from the same set of iPSC lines. We undertook RNA-seq experiments in these model systems and analyzed the gene expression data to identify genes that are differentially expressed in cerebral organoids and two-dimensional cortical neuron cultures. In cerebral organoids, gene ontology analysis showed enrichment of genes involved in tissue development, response to stimuli, and the interferon-gamma pathway, while two-dimensional cortical neuron cultures showed enrichment of genes involved in nervous system development and neurogenesis. We also undertook comparative analysis of these gene expression profiles with transcriptomic data from the human fetal prefrontal cortex (PFC). This analysis showed greater overlap of the fetal PFC transcriptome with cerebral organoid gene expression profiles compared to monolayer cortical neuron culture profiles. Our studies delineate the transcriptomic differences between cortical neuron monolayer cultures and three-dimensional cerebral organoids and can help inform the appropriate use of these model systems to address specific scientific questions.
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