Gene expression of cardiac organoids at a single cell resolution in healthy and cardiac injury conditions
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE221500 | GEO | 2023/10/12
REPOSITORIES: GEO
Similar Datasets
Project description:Pathogenic mutations in alpha kinase 3 (ALPK3) cause cardiomyopathy and a range of musculoskeletal defects. How ALPK3 mutations result in disease remains unclear and little is known about this atypical kinase. Using a suite of engineered human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) we show that ALPK3 localizes to the sarcomere, specifically at the M-Band. Both sarcomeric organization and calcium kinetics were disrupted in ALPK3 deficient hPSC derived cardiomyocytes. Further, cardiac organoids derived from ALPK3 knockout hPSCs displayed reduced force generation. Phosphoproteomic profiling of wildtype and ALPK3 null hPSC derived cardiomyocytes revealed ALPK3-dependant phospho-peptides were enriched for proteins involved in sarcomere function and protein quality control. We demonstrate that ALPK3 binds to the selective autophagy receptor SQSTM1 (Sequestome 1) and is required for the sarcomeric localization of SQSTM1. We propose that ALPK3 is a myogenic kinase with an integral role in the intracellular signaling networks underlying sarcomere maintenance required for continued cardiac contractility.
2023-01-19 | PXD035535 | Pride
Project description:The mammalian heart undergoes major transitions during postnatal life to acquire the physiological properties of an adult organ. Postnatal life imposes numerous adaptations including electrophysiological, structural and metabolic maturation of cardiomyocytes1, which occur coincident with loss of proliferative capacity and regenerative potential2,3. The discovery of key upstream drivers of cardiomyocyte maturation and cell cycle arrest remains one of the most important unanswered questions in cardiac biology. Discovery of these drivers would facilitate current attempts to promote cardiomyocyte maturation in vitro for drug discovery and to de-differentiate adult cardiomyocytes in vivo for regenerative medicine. A recent study has suggested that the shift from a low oxygen environment in utero towards a high oxygen environment after birth acts as a key trigger for cardiomyocyte cell cycle exit4. Moreover, it was recently demonstrated that proliferative adult cardiomyocytes reside in a hypoxic niche5 and that exposure of adult mice to gradual hypoxemia is sufficient to drive cell cycle re-entry and regeneration following infarction6. However, it is currently unclear whether postnatal changes in oxygen tension or the associated shifts in cardiomyocyte metabolism are sufficient to promote maturation and cell cycle arrest as human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes fail to mature when cultured at 21% oxygen7,8. There are considerable changes in metabolic substrate provision during early postnatal life. The mammalian heart relies on high concentrations of carbohydrates and the presence of insulin in utero but later switches to fatty acid dominated substrates present in milk and low insulin levels post-birth9. In order to adapt to these changes in substrates, cardiomyocytes upregulate the genes required for fatty acid oxidation after birth10. The importance of these metabolic adaptations for cardiomyocyte maturation has been difficult to study because genetic disruption of fatty acid oxidation components in vivo can have a broad range of negative health impacts11. Therefore, there is a need to develop alternative approaches for studying the impact of cardiomyocyte metabolism on the maturation process. hPSCs are now widely used for the generation of defined human somatic cell types, including cardiomyocytes. These cardiomyocytes have now been used extensively for developmental studies, drug screening, disease modeling, and heart repair. However, lack of maturity and inappropriate responses to pharmacological agents have been identified as limitations in 2D or embryoid body based differentiation strategies12. To improve maturity of hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes, long-term culture can be used13, although long-term cultures may not be amenable to high-throughput screening applications and adult-like maturity is still not achieved14. In an effort to better simulate heart muscle structure and function, cardiac tissue engineering to form 3D engineered heart tissue has been used15-19. However, despite these recent advances in human cardiac tissue engineering, cardiac tissues derived from hPSC still lack many features of fully mature adult heart tissue20. Moreover, engineered heart tissue fabrication, culture, mechanical loading and pacing protocols, and analysis methods using organ baths are costly, labor intensive, and the multiple handling steps induce variability. In order to facilitate higher-throughput experiments, platforms for engineered heart tissue production have been miniaturized, however, screening experiments using semi-automated force of contraction analyses have only been published in 24-well plate formats21. Therefore, we developed a novel 96-well device, the heart dynamometer (Heart-Dyno), for high-throughput functional screening of human cardiac organoids (hCOs) to facilitate screening on a larger scale. The Heart-Dyno is designed to facilitate automated formation of dense muscle bundles from minimal cells and reagents while also facilitating culture and automated force of contraction analysis without any tissue handling. Using the Heart-Dyno, we define serum-free 3D culture conditions that promote structural, electrophysiological, metabolic and proliferative maturation of hPSC-derived cardiac organoids. Furthermore, we uncover a metabolic mechanism governing cardiomyocyte cell cycle arrest through repression of a β-catenin and YAP1 dependent signalling.
2017-11-21 | PXD005736 | Pride
Project description:Cardiac fibroblasts (CFBs) support heart function by secreting extracellular matrix and paracrine factors, respond to stress associated with injury and disease, and therefore are an increasingly important therapeutic target to treat heart disease. Here, we profile how developmental lineage of human pluripotent stem cell-derived CFBs, epicardial (EpiC-FB) and second heart field (SHF-FB) impacts their transcriptome. We compared this to human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes, primary fetal cardiac fibroblasts, primary adult left ventricular fibroblasts, and primary adult dermal fibroblasts.
2021-08-11 | GSE168380 | GEO
Project description:hPSC-CM has been used to model cardiac-related disease phenotypes. However, hPSC-CMs constrains their potential in cell-based therapy, disease modeling and drug discovery. Engineered heart tissues (EHT) or scaffold generated structures are unable to recapitulate the cardiovascular systems sufficiently to improve clinical reliance. Hence in this study, we demonstrate the
2022-10-10 | GSE168464 | GEO
Project description:Since the initial isolation of human embryonic stem cells and subsequent discovery of reprogramming methods for somatic cells, thousands of protocols have been developed to create each of the hundreds of cell types found in vivo with significant focus on disease-prone systems, e.g. cardiovascular. Robust protocols exist for many of these cell types, save cardiac fibroblasts (CF). Very recently, several competing methods have been developed to generate these cells through a developmentally conserved epicardial pathway. Such methods generate epicardial cells, but here we report that prolonged exposure to growth factors such as bFGF induces a more native morphology and similar chromatin architecture to primary CFs. Media conditions for growth and assays are provided, as well as suggestions for seeding densities and timepoints for protein harvest of extracellular matrix. We demonstrate marker expression and matrix competency of resultant cells as shown next to primary human cardiac fibroblasts. These methods provide additional guidance to the original protocol and result in an increasingly stable phenotype
2021-12-01 | GSE167368 | GEO
Project description:Single cell RNAseq of a model of epicardium derived from human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC-epi) reveals that distinct epicardial sub-populations are defined by high levels of expression for the transcription factors BNC1 and TCF21. Cells positive for the transcription factor WT1 are included in the BNC1 population, which confirms the heterogeneity observed in the mouse with TCF21 and WT1. Analysis of genes differentially expressed between the two populations suggests differences in their biological activities. We identified THY1 as a membrane marker of the TCF21 population and we show that THY1+ cells can differentiate into cardiac fibroblast and smooth muscle cells while THY1- cells mostly produce the latter. Knocking-down BNC1 during the establishment of the populations led to an homogeneous epicardium containing mostly the TCF21high populations and differentiating mainly into cardiac fibroblasts. Using network inference methods and transcriptomic data from the different epicardial lineages derived from the hPSC-epi, we identified a core transcriptional network organized around WT1, TCF21 and BNC1 and orchestrated by BNC1.
2019-12-03 | GSE122827 | GEO
Project description:Direct Coculture of hPSC-derived Cardiac Progenitor Cells with Epicardial cells induces Cardiomyocyte proliferation and ventricular specification
| PRJNA714656 | ENA
Project description:We utilized a dual reporting hPSC line that identified cells expressing NKX2.5 and endothelal cells to characterize discrete milestones during cardiac and vascular differentiaiton. Comparing populations that express either or both reporters to human umbilical vein endothelial cells, we document a unique molecular phenotype in hPSC-derived endocardium that points toward an important role for Wnt signaling during vascular specification of cardiac progenitors.
2017-12-27 | GSE108465 | GEO
Project description:Cardiovascular-related disorders are a significant worldwide health problem. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in developed countries, making up a third of the mortality rate in the US1. Congenital heart defects (CHD) affect ~1% of all live births2, making it the common birth defect in humans. Current technologies provide some insight into how these disorders originate but are limited in their ability to provide a complete overview of disease pathogenesis and progression due to their lack of physiological complexity. There is a pressing need to develop more faithful organ-like platforms recapitulating complex in vivo phenotypes to study human development and disease in vitro. Here, we report the most faithful in vitro organoid model of human cardiovascular development to date using human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Our protocol is highly efficient, scalable, shows high reproducibility and is compatible with high-throughput approaches. Furthermore, our hHOs showed very high similarity to human fetal hearts, both morphologically and in cell-type complexity. hHOs were differentiated using a two-step manipulation of Wnt signaling using chemical inhibitors and growth factors in completely defined media and culture conditions. Organoids were successfully derived from multiple independent hPSCs lines with very similar efficiency. hHOs started beating at ~6 days, were mostly spherical and grew up to ~1 mm in diameter by day 15 of differentiation. hHOs developed sophisticated, interconnected internal chambers and confocal analysis for cardiac markers revealed the presence of all major cardiac lineages, including cardiomyocytes (TNNT2+), epicardial cells (WT1+, TJP+), cardiac fibroblasts (THY1+, VIM+), endothelial cells (PECAM1+), and endocardial cells (NFATC1+). Morphologically, hHOs developed well-defined epicardial and adjacent myocardial regions and presented a distinct vascular plexus as well as endocardial-lined microchambers. RNA-seq time-course analysis of hHOs, monolayer differentiated iPSCs and fetal human hearts revealed that hHOs recapitulate human fetal heart tissue development better than previously described differentiation protocols. hHOs allow higher-order interaction of distinct heart tissues for the first time, and display biologically relevant physical and topographical 3D cues that closely resemble the human fetal heart. Our model constitutes a powerful novel tool for discovery and translational studies in human cardiac development and disease.
2021-07-19 | GSE153185 | GEO
Project description:Self-organisation and coordinated morphogenesis of multiple cardiac lineages is essential for the development and function of the heart1-3. However, the absence of a human in vitro model that mimics the basic lineage architecture of the heart hinders research into developmental mechanisms and congenital defects4. Here, we describe the establishment of a reliable, lineage-controlled and high-throughput cardiac organoid platform. We show that cardiac mesoderm derived from human pluripotent stem cells robustly self-organises and differentiates into cardiomyocytes forming a cavity. Co-differentiation of cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells from cardiac mesoderm within these structures is required to form a separate endothelial layer. As in vivo, the epicardium engulfs these cardiac organoids, migrates into the cardiomyocyte layer and differentiates. We use this model to demonstrate that cardiac cavity formation is controlled by a mesodermal WNT-BMP signalling axis. Disruption of one of the key BMP targets in cardiac mesoderm, the transcription factor HAND1, interferes with cavity formation, which is consistent with its role in early heart tube and left chamber development5. Thus, the cardiac organoid platform represents a powerful resource for the quantitative and mechanistic analysis of early human cardiogenesis and defects that are otherwise inaccessible. Beyond understanding congenital heart disease, cardiac organoids provide a foundation for future translational research into human cardiac disorders.
2021-05-18 | PXD018306 | Pride