Integrity of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Derived Megakaryocytes as Assessed by Genetic and Transcriptomic Analysis

Kai Kammers, Margaret A Taub, Ingo Ruczinski, Joshua Martin, Lisa R Yanek, Alyssa Frazee, Yongxing Gao, Dixie Hoyle, Nauder Faraday, Diane M Becker, Linzhao Cheng, Zack Z Wang, Jeff T Leek, Lewis C Becker and Rasika A Mathias

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Previously, we have described our feeder-free, xeno-free approach to generate megakaryocytes (MKs) in culture from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Here, we focus specifically on the integrity of these MKs using: (1) genotype discordance between parent cell DNA to iPSC cell DNA and onward to the differentiated MK DNA; (2) genomic structural integrity using copy number variation (CNV); and (3) transcriptomic signatures of the derived MK lines compared to the iPSC lines. We detected a very low rate of genotype discordance; estimates were 0.0001%-0.01%, well below the genotyping error rate for our assay (0.37%). No CNVs were generated in the iPSCs that were subsequently passed on to the MKs. Finally, we observed highly biologically relevant gene sets as being upregulated in MKs relative to the iPSCs: platelet activation, blood coagulation, megakaryocyte development, platelet formation, platelet degranulation, and platelet aggregation. These data strongly support the integrity of the derived MK lines.

Date: 2017
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