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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2025

Engineered Cardiac Tissues as a Platform for CRISPR-Based Mitogen Discovery.

Sophia DeLuca, Nicholas Strash, Yifan Chen, Marisa Patsy, Ashley Myers, Libertad Tejeda, Sarah Broders, Amber Miranda, Xixian Jiang, Nenad Bursac

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. A Hypoxia-reoxygenation Injury Model in Self-assembling Human Cardioids.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Sophia DeLucaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9432-8186
Nicholas StrashDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1907-0925
Yifan ChenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Marisa PatsyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Ashley MyersDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Libertad TejedaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Sarah BrodersDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Amber MirandaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Xixian JiangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Nenad BursacDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5688-6061

Funding

Integrated Cellular and Tissue Engineering for Ischemic Heart DiseaseU01HL134764 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BURSAC, NENAD, KAMP, TIMOTHY J. · 2016 to 2022
$7.7M
University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue EngineeringT32GM144291 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Charles A. Gersbach, Tatiana Segura · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Engineering Human Heart Tissues with Polyploid CardiomyocytesR01HL164013 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BURSAC, NENAD · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
Microphysiological Human Tissue Systems for Monitoring of Genome Editing OutcomesU01HL156348 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BURSAC, NENAD, GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2020 to 2022
$2.0M
Engineered BacNav and BacCav for Improved Excitability and ContractionR01EB032726 · NIBIB · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BURSAC, NENAD · 2022 to 2025
$1.9M
Microphysiological Human Tissue Systems for Monitoring of Genome Editing OutcomesU01EB028901 · NIBIB · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BURSAC, NENAD, GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2019 to 2019
$668k
Investigating the Role of Polyploidy in the Maturation of hiPSC-derived CardiomyocytesF31HL156453 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI STRASH, NICHOLAS A · 2021 to 2023
$105k
Investigating Mitogenic Mechanism and Therapeutic Efficacy of Adenosine Deaminase Knockout in Human and Murine CardiomyocytesF31HL162460 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI DELUCA, SOPHIA BUNNELL · 2022 to 2023
$84k
American Heart Association 903369NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL156453NHLBI NIH HHS F31HL156453NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL162460NHLBI NIH HHS F31HL162460NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL164013NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL164013NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL134764NHLBI NIH HHS U01HL134764NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL156348NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB032726NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB028901NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144291School of Medicine, Duke University Translating Duke Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Improved understanding of cardiomyocyte (CM) cell cycle regulation may allow researchers to stimulate pro-regenerative effects in injured hearts or promote maturation of human stem cell-derived CMs. Gene therapies, in particular, hold promise to induce controlled proliferation of endogenous or transplanted CMs via transient activation of mitogenic processes. Methods to identify and characterize candidate cardiac mitogens in vitro can accelerate translational efforts and contribute to the understanding of the complex regulatory landscape of CM proliferation and postnatal maturation. In this study, A CRISPR knockout-based screening strategy using in vitro neonatal rat ventricular myocyte (NRVM) monolayers is established, followed by candidate mitogen validation in mature 3-D engineered cardiac tissues (ECTs). This screen identified knockout of the purine metabolism enzyme adenosine deaminase (ADA-KO) as an effective pro-mitogenic stimulus. RNA-sequencing of ECTs further reveals increased pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) activity as the primary driver of ADA-KO-induced CM cycling. Inhibition of the pathway's rate limiting enzyme, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), prevented ADA-KO induced CM cycling, while increasing PPP activity via G6PD overexpression increased CM cycling. Together, this study demonstrates the development and application of a genetic/tissue engineering platform for in vitro discovery and validation of new candidate mitogens affecting regenerative or maturation states of cardiomyocytes.

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Myocytes, CardiacTissue EngineeringAdenosine DeaminaseAnimalsCell CycleCell ProliferationCells, CulturedClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGlucosephosphate DehydrogenaseHumansPentose Phosphate PathwayRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyAdenosine DeaminaseGlucosephosphate DehydrogenasecardiomyocyteCRISPRmaturationproliferationtissue engineering

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PMID39508305
PMCPMC11695184

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