Reprogramming Huntington monkey skin cells into pluripotent stem cells

Cell Reprogram. 2010 Oct;12(5):509-17. doi: 10.1089/cell.2010.0019.

Abstract

Induced pluripotent Huntington's disease monkey stem cells (rHD-iPSCs) were established by the overexpression of rhesus macaque transcription factors (Oct4, Sox2, and Klf4) in transgenic Huntington's monkey skin fibroblasts. The rHD-iPSCs were pluripotent and capable of differentiating into neuronal cell types in vitro and developed teratoma in immune compromised mice. We also demonstrated the upregulation of endogenous Oct4 and Sox2 after successful reprogramming to pluripotency in rHD-iPSCs, which was not expressed in skin fibroblasts. rHD-iPSCs also developed cellular features comparable to Huntington's disease (HD), including the accumulation of mutant huntingtin (htt) aggregate and the formation of intranuclear inclusions (NIs) paralleling neural differentiation in vitro. Induced pluripotent stem cells from transgenic HD monkeys open a new era of nonhuman primate modeling of human diseases. rHD-iPSCs that develop key HD cellular features and parallel neural differentiation can be a powerful platform for investigating the developmental impact on HD pathogenesis and developing new therapies, which can be evaluated in HD monkeys from whom the rHD-iPSCs were derived.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Base Sequence
  • Cell Dedifferentiation
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Cytogenetic Analysis
  • DNA Primers / genetics
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Gene Expression
  • Humans
  • Huntingtin Protein
  • Huntington Disease / genetics*
  • Huntington Disease / metabolism
  • Huntington Disease / pathology*
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / cytology*
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / metabolism*
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / transplantation
  • Kruppel-Like Factor 4
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors / genetics
  • Macaca mulatta
  • Mice
  • Mice, SCID
  • Mutation
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / genetics
  • Neurons / cytology
  • Neurons / metabolism
  • Nuclear Proteins / genetics
  • Octamer Transcription Factor-3 / genetics
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • SOXB1 Transcription Factors / genetics
  • Transfection

Substances

  • DNA Primers
  • HTT protein, human
  • Huntingtin Protein
  • KLF4 protein, human
  • Klf4 protein, mouse
  • Kruppel-Like Factor 4
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • Nuclear Proteins
  • Octamer Transcription Factor-3
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • SOXB1 Transcription Factors