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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Extended NGN2 Expression in iPSCs Dramatically Enhances Purity of Neuronal Cultures.

Jesús Muñoz-Estrada, Andrew Mostafania, Lahiruni Halwatura, Ali Haghani, Yuming Jiang, Jesse G Meyer

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6 authors.

Jesús Muñoz-EstradaDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.ORCID 0000-0002-6995-2996
Andrew MostafaniaDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Lahiruni HalwaturaDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Ali HaghaniDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Yuming JiangDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Jesse G MeyerDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.ORCID 0000-0003-2753-3926

Funding

Democratizing Multi-Omics to Expedite Discovery of Hidden Metabolic PathwaysR35GM142502 · NIGMS · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI MEYER, JESSE · 2021 to 2025
$2.2M
Drug Discovery for Alzheimer’s Disease Enabled by Multi-Omics and Artificial IntelligenceR21AG074234 · NIA · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI MEYER, JESSE · 2021 to 2022
$443k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG074234NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM142502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

iPSC-derived neuronal cultures can provide valuable insights into the pathogenesis of neurological disease. However, single-cell iPSC clones expressing NGN2 and mCherry exhibit spontaneous loss of mCherry fluorescence, raising questions about the homogeneity of neurons derived from what appear to be heterogeneous iPSCs. We find that mCherry silencing does not influence iNeurons with two lines of evidence. First, using single-cell proteomics, we found that spontaneous mCherry silencing does not drive heterogeneity in iPSCs. Second, bulk proteomics and immunofluorescence analysis indicated that iNeurons from iPSCs expressing or lacking mCherry both resemble cortical glutamatergic neurons. The primary confounding factor in iNeuron generation was that suboptimal neuronal conversion led to cell aggregates comprised of actively proliferating neuronal progenitor cells and astrocytes as the culture developed. Our results indicate that extended NGN2 dosage substantially improves neuron purity.

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