期刊
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL
卷 34, 期 15, 页码 1122-1133出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs226
关键词
Induced pluripotent stem cells; Cardiomyocytes; Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
资金
- Goh Foundation Cardiovascular Research award
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a primary heart muscle disorder associated with sudden cardiac death. Its pathophysiology is still poorly understood. We aimed to produce an in vitro cellular model of ARVC using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes and determine whether the model could recapitulate key features of the disease phenotype. Dermal fibroblasts were obtained from a 30-year-old man with a clinical diagnosis of ARVC, harbouring a plakophilin 2 (PKP2) gene mutation. Four stable iPSC lines were generated using retroviral reprogramming, and functional cardiomyocytes were derived. Gene expression levels of desmosomal proteins (PKP2 and plakoglobin) in cardiomyocytes from ARVCiPSCs were significantly lower compared with cardiomyocytes from control iPSCs (P 0.01); there were no significant differences in the expression of desmoplakin, N-cadherin, and connexin 43 between the two groups. Cardiomyocytes derived from ARVCiPSCs exhibited markedly reduced immunofluorescence signals when stained for PKP2 and plakoglobin, but similar levels of staining for desmoplakin, N-cadherin, and connexin 43 compared with control cardiomyocytes. Transmission electron microscopy showed that ARVCiPSC cardiomyocytes were larger and contained darker lipid droplets compared with control cardiomyocytes. After 2 weeks of cell exposure to adiopgenic differentiation medium, ARVCiPSC cardiomyocytes were found to contain a significantly greater amount of lipid, calculated using Oil Red O staining, compared with controls (734 35.6 vs. 8.1 0.49 a.u., respectively; n 7, P 0.001). Patient-specific iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes display key features of ARVC, including reduced cell surface localization of desmosomal proteins and a more adipogenic phenotype.
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