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ArticleNature communications2024

Reassessment of marker genes in human induced pluripotent stem cells for enhanced quality control.

Jochen Dobner, Sebastian Diecke, Jean Krutmann, Alessandro Prigione, Andrea Rossi

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jochen DobnerGenome Engineering and Model Development Lab (GEMD), IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6336-9716
Sebastian DieckeMax Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5219-5992
Jean KrutmannGenome Engineering and Model Development Lab (GEMD), IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8433-1517
Alessandro PrigioneUniversity Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9457-1952
Andrea RossiGenome Engineering and Model Development Lab (GEMD), IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany. andrea.rossi@iuf-duesseldorf.de.ORCID 0000-0001-5863-6448

Funding

AFM-Téléthon (French Muscular Dystrophy Association) AR-25179Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 01GM2002ADeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) PR1527/6-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) RO5380/1-1EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) SIMPATHIC 101080249Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Leibniz Association) K246/2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have great potential in research, but pluripotency testing faces challenges due to non-standardized methods and ambiguous markers. Here, we use long-read nanopore transcriptome sequencing to discover 172 genes linked to cell states not covered by current guidelines. We validate 12 genes by qPCR as unique markers for specific cell fates: pluripotency (CNMD, NANOG, SPP1), endoderm (CER1, EOMES, GATA6), mesoderm (APLNR, HAND1, HOXB7), and ectoderm (HES5, PAMR1, PAX6). Using these genes, we develop a machine learning-based scoring system, "hiPSCore", trained on 15 iPSC lines and validated on 10 more. hiPSCore accurately classifies pluripotent and differentiated cells and predicts their potential to become specialized 2D cells and 3D organoids. Our re-evaluation of cell fate marker genes identifies key targets for future studies on cell fate assessment. hiPSCore improves iPSC testing by reducing time, subjectivity, and resource use, thus enhancing iPSC quality for scientific and medical applications.

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Cell DifferentiationInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsQuality ControlBiomarkersCell LineEctodermEndodermGene Expression ProfilingHumansMachine LearningMesodermNanog Homeobox ProteinOrganoidsT-Box Domain ProteinsTranscriptomeBiomarkersEOMES protein, humanNanog Homeobox ProteinT-Box Domain Proteins

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PMID39358374
PMCPMC11447164

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