Single-cell sequencing reveals the potential oncogenic expression atlas of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes
Open Access
- 15 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Biology Open
- Vol. 10 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.053348
Abstract
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are important source for regenerative medicine. However, the links between pluripotency and oncogenic transformation raise safety issues. To understand the characteristics of iPSC-derived cells at single-cell resolution, we directly reprogrammed two human iPSC lines into cardiomyocytes and collected cells from four time points during cardiac differentiation for single-cell sequencing. We captured 32,365 cells and identified five molecularly distinct clusters that aligned well with our reconstructed differentiation trajectory. We discovered a set of dynamic expression events related to the upregulation of oncogenes and the decreasing expression of tumor suppressor genes during cardiac differentiation, which were similar to the gain-of-function and loss-of-function patterns during oncogenesis. In practice, we characterized the dynamic expression of the TP53 and Yamanaka factor genes (OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and MYC), which were widely used for human iPSCs lines generation; and revealed the co-occurrence of MYC overexpression and TP53 silencing in some of human iPSC-derived TNNT2+ cardiomyocytes. In summary, our oncogenic expression atlas is valuable for human iPSCs application and the single-cell resolution highlights the clues potentially associated with the carcinogenic risk of human iPSC-derived cells.Funding Information
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen Municipality (JCYJ20180305163846927)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (82060393)
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (2020GXNSFAA159124)
- Science and Technology Plan of Guilin (20170109-34)
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