Arash Pezhouman1,2, James L Engel1,2, Ngoc B Nguyen1,2,3, Rhys J P Skelton1,2, William Blake Gilmore1,2, Rong Qiao1,2, Debashis Sahoo4, Peng Zhao1, David A Elliott5,6, Reza Ardehali1,2,3,7. 1. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. 2. Eli and Edythe Broad Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. 3. Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Graduate Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. 4. Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. 5. Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia. 6. Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia. 7. Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Abstract
AIMS: We prospectively isolate and characterize first and second heart field- and nodal-like cardiomyocytes using a double reporter line from human embryonic stem cells. Our double reporter line utilizes two important transcription factors in cardiac development, TBX5 and NKX2-5. TBX5 expression marks first heart field progenitors and cardiomyocytes while NKX2-5 is expressed in nearly all myocytes of the developing heart (excluding nodal cells). We address the shortcomings of prior work in the generation of heart field-specific cardiomyocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells and provide a comprehensive early developmental transcriptomic as well as electrophysiological analyses of these three populations. METHODS AND RESULTS: Transcriptional, immunocytochemical, and functional studies support the cellular identities of isolated populations based on the expression pattern of NKX2-5 and TBX5. Importantly, bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing analyses provide evidence of unique molecular signatures of isolated first and second heart field cardiomyocytes, as well as nodal-like cells. Extensive electrophysiological analyses reveal dominant atrial action potential phenotypes in first and second heart fields in alignment with our findings in single-cell RNA sequencing. Lastly, we identify two novel surface markers, POPDC2 and CORIN, that enable purification of cardiomyocytes and first heart field cardiomyocytes, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We describe a high-yield approach for isolation and characterization of human embryonic stem cell-derived heart field-specific and nodal-like cardiomyocytes. Obtaining enriched populations of these different cardiomyocyte subtypes increases the resolution of gene expression profiling during early cardiogenesis, arrhythmia modelling, and drug screening. This paves the way for the development of effective stem cell therapy to treat diseases that affect specific regions of the heart- or chamber-specific congenital heart defects. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
AIMS: We prospectively isolate and characterize first and second heart field- and nodal-like cardiomyocytes using a double reporter line from human embryonic stem cells. Our double reporter line utilizes two important transcription factors in cardiac development, TBX5 and NKX2-5. TBX5 expression marks first heart field progenitors and cardiomyocytes while NKX2-5 is expressed in nearly all myocytes of the developing heart (excluding nodal cells). We address the shortcomings of prior work in the generation of heart field-specific cardiomyocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells and provide a comprehensive early developmental transcriptomic as well as electrophysiological analyses of these three populations. METHODS AND RESULTS: Transcriptional, immunocytochemical, and functional studies support the cellular identities of isolated populations based on the expression pattern of NKX2-5 and TBX5. Importantly, bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing analyses provide evidence of unique molecular signatures of isolated first and second heart field cardiomyocytes, as well as nodal-like cells. Extensive electrophysiological analyses reveal dominant atrial action potential phenotypes in first and second heart fields in alignment with our findings in single-cell RNA sequencing. Lastly, we identify two novel surface markers, POPDC2 and CORIN, that enable purification of cardiomyocytes and first heart field cardiomyocytes, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We describe a high-yield approach for isolation and characterization of human embryonic stem cell-derived heart field-specific and nodal-like cardiomyocytes. Obtaining enriched populations of these different cardiomyocyte subtypes increases the resolution of gene expression profiling during early cardiogenesis, arrhythmia modelling, and drug screening. This paves the way for the development of effective stem cell therapy to treat diseases that affect specific regions of the heart- or chamber-specific congenital heart defects. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
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