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ArticleNature communications2016

Genetically engineering self-organization of human pluripotent stem cells into a liver bud-like tissue using Gata6.

Patrick Guye, Mohammad R Ebrahimkhani, Nathan Kipniss, Jeremy J Velazquez, Eldi Schoenfeld, Samira Kiani, Linda G Griffith, Ron Weiss

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Article in Nature communications, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.

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89citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Patrick GuyeDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Mohammad R EbrahimkhaniDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Nathan KipnissDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Jeremy J VelazquezDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Eldi SchoenfeldDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Samira KianiDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Linda G GriffithDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Ron WeissDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Synthetic Biologics (United States) · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USEmergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems · US

Funding

MIT Center for Integrative Synthetic BiologyP50GM098792 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WEISS, RON · 2013 to 2017
$11.0M
Genetic circuits for high-throughput, multi-sensory, live cell microRNA profR01CA173712 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WEISS, RON · 2013 to 2017
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA173712NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM098792NIGMS NIH HHS P50GM098792
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have potential for personalized and regenerative medicine. While most of the methods using these cells have focused on deriving homogenous populations of specialized cells, there has been modest success in producing hiPSC-derived organotypic tissues or organoids. Here we present a novel approach for generating and then co-differentiating hiPSC-derived progenitors. With a genetically engineered pulse of GATA-binding protein 6 (GATA6) expression, we initiate rapid emergence of all three germ layers as a complex function of GATA6 expression levels and tissue context. Within 2 weeks we obtain a complex tissue that recapitulates early developmental processes and exhibits a liver bud-like phenotype, including haematopoietic and stromal cells as well as a neuronal niche. Collectively, our approach demonstrates derivation of complex tissues from hiPSCs using a single autologous hiPSCs as source and generates a range of stromal cells that co-develop with parenchymal cells to form tissues.

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Cell DifferentiationCell LineGATA6 Transcription FactorGene Expression RegulationGenetic EngineeringHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsLiverGATA6 protein, humanGATA6 Transcription Factor

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PMID26732624
PMCPMC4729822
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