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Generation of Human Cardiomyocytes: A Differentiation Protocol from Feeder-free Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Published on: June 28, 2013
Generation of two induced pluripotent stem cell lines from dilated cardiomyopathy patients with TTN mutations
Jiawei Li1, Anurendra Kumar1, Yin-Tzu Chen1
1Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Abstract:
Titin (TTN) encodes the largest protein in the human body and is essential for sarcomere assembly and muscle mechanosensation. Truncating TTN mutations are a leading cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Here, we generated two induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from female DCM patients, each carrying a heterozygous nonsense point mutation that produces a truncated titin protein. Both lines were reprogrammed from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and characterized for expression of undifferentiated human iPSC state markers, tri-lineage differentiation capacity, and genomic integrity by copy-number analysis. These lines provide a patient-derived platform for investigating the mechanobiological basis of titin-truncation DCM in vitro.

