Induction of human Somatostatin and Parvalbumin neurons by expressing a single transcription factor LIM Homeobox 6
- Nanjing Medical University, China
- ShanghaiTech University, China
- Fudan University, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Abstract
Human GABAergic interneurons (GIN) are implicated in normal brain function as well as numerous mental disorders. However, generation of functional human GIN subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) has not been established. By expressing LHX6, a transcriptional factor critical for GIN development, we have induced hPSCs to GINs, including somatostatin (SST, 29%) and parvalbumin (PV, 21%) neurons. Our RNAseq results also confirmed alteration of GINs identity with the overexpression of LHX6. Five months after transplantation into the mouse brain, the human GABA precursors generated increased population of SST and PV neurons by overexpressing LHX6. Importantly, the grafted human GINs exhibited functional electrophysiological properties and even fast-spiking like action potentials. Thus, expression of the single transcription factor LHX6 under our GIN differentiation condition is sufficient to robustly induce human PV and SST subtypes.
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Sequencing data have been deposited in GEO under accession codesGSE114553. All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files.
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Induction of human SST and PV neurons by expressing a single transcription factor LHX6Publicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE114553).
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (81471301)
- Yan Liu
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1306703)
- Yan Liu
Jiangsu Outstanding Young Investigator Program (BK20160044)
- Yan Liu
ShanghaiTech Start-up Foundation
- Shuijin He
Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province
- Fang Yuan
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA16010306)
- Yan Liu
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31671063)
- Yan Liu
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: SCID mice were purchased from the Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University. All of the animal experiments followed standard experimental protocols and were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee at Nanjing Medical University(IACUC-1601129).
Human subjects: H9 cell line was purchased from Wicell Agreeement (NO.16-W0060)For ips cell line, verbal and written consent was obtained from the person.The study was approved by the ethic community of Nanjing Medical University[(2017）NO.217].
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© 2018, Yuan et al.
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Induction of human Somatostatin and Parvalbumin neurons by expressing a single transcription factor LIM Homeobox 6
eLife 7:e37382.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37382
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