Project description:We generated maps of H3K4me1, H3K27ac (enhancers), H3K4me3, Pol II (promoters) and H3K27me3 (repressed chromatin) in the genome of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes Differentiation of cardiomyocytes from iPSC followed by ChIP-seq of H3K27ac, H34me1, H327me3, H3K4me3 and PolII
Project description:Currently, cardiomyocytes differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are routinely generated for disease research and drug development as an alternative to animal models. Although iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) are generally assumed to resemble myocytes in the fetal heart, a systematic global comparison is still lacking. We established a robust differentiation protocol to generate mature cardiomyocytes from male and female iPSC lines, and investigated their gene expression and splicing profiles, compared to that of human hearts at different stages of development.