Isolation and comparative transcriptome analysis of human fetal and iPSC-derived cone photoreceptor cells
Isolation and comparative transcriptome analysis of human fetal and iPSC-derived cone photoreceptor cells
Loss of cone photoreceptors, crucial for daylight vision, has the greatest impact on sight in retinal degeneration. Transplantation of stem cell-derived L/M-opsin cones, which form 90% of the human cone population, could provide a feasible therapy to restore vision. However, transcriptomic similarities between fetal and stem cell-derived cones remain to be defined, in addition to development of cone cell purification strategies. Here, we report an analysis of the human L/M-opsin cone photoreceptor transcriptome using an AAV2/9.pR2.1:GFP reporter. This led to the identification of a cone-enriched gene signature, which we used to demonstrate similar gene expression between fetal and stem cell-derived cones. We then defined a cluster of differentiation marker combination that, when used for cell sorting, significantly enriches for cone photoreceptors from the fetal retina and stem cell-derived retinal organoids, respectively. These data may facilitate more efficient isolation of human stem cell-derived cones for use in clinical transplantation studies.
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Lakowski, Jorn
1856e739-982a-412a-87c7-abf1610f5384
12 December 2017
Lakowski, Jorn
1856e739-982a-412a-87c7-abf1610f5384
Lakowski, Jorn
(2017)
Isolation and comparative transcriptome analysis of human fetal and iPSC-derived cone photoreceptor cells.
Stem Cell Reports, 9 (6), .
(doi:10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.10.018).
Abstract
Loss of cone photoreceptors, crucial for daylight vision, has the greatest impact on sight in retinal degeneration. Transplantation of stem cell-derived L/M-opsin cones, which form 90% of the human cone population, could provide a feasible therapy to restore vision. However, transcriptomic similarities between fetal and stem cell-derived cones remain to be defined, in addition to development of cone cell purification strategies. Here, we report an analysis of the human L/M-opsin cone photoreceptor transcriptome using an AAV2/9.pR2.1:GFP reporter. This led to the identification of a cone-enriched gene signature, which we used to demonstrate similar gene expression between fetal and stem cell-derived cones. We then defined a cluster of differentiation marker combination that, when used for cell sorting, significantly enriches for cone photoreceptors from the fetal retina and stem cell-derived retinal organoids, respectively. These data may facilitate more efficient isolation of human stem cell-derived cones for use in clinical transplantation studies.
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Accepted/In Press date: 15 October 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 November 2017
Published date: 12 December 2017
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425623
ISSN: 2213-6711
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