Efficient and reproducible generation of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes using a stirred bioreactor

Abstract In the last decade human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) proved to be valuable for cardiac disease modeling and cardiac regeneration, yet challenges with scale, quality, inter-batch consistency, and cryopreservation remain, reducing experimental reproducibility and limiting clinical translation. Here, we report a robust cardiac differentiation protocol that uses Wnt modulation and a stirred suspension bioreactor to produce on average 124 million hiPSC-CMs with >90% purity using a variety of hiPSC lines (19 differentiations; 10 iPSC lines). After controlled freeze and thaw, bioreactor-derived CMs (bCMs) showed high viability (>90%), interbatch reproducibility in cellular morphology, function, drug response and ventricular identity, which was further supported by single cell transcriptomes. bCMs on microcontact printed substrates revealed a higher degree of sarcomere maturation and viability during long-term culture compared to monolayer-derived CMs (mCMs). Moreover, functional investigation of bCMs in 3D engineered heart tissues showed earlier and stronger force production during long-term culture, and robust pacing capture up to 4 Hz when compared to mCMs. bCMs derived from this differentiation protocol will expand the applications of hiPSC-CMs by providing a reproducible, scalable, and resource efficient method to generate cardiac cells with well-characterized structural and functional properties superior to standard mCMs..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 01. März Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Prondzynski, Maksymilian [VerfasserIn]
Bortolin, Raul H. [VerfasserIn]
Berkson, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Trembley, Michael A. [VerfasserIn]
Shani, Kevin [VerfasserIn]
Sweat, Mason E. [VerfasserIn]
Mayourian, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Cordoves, Albert M. [VerfasserIn]
Anyanwu, Nnaemeka J. [VerfasserIn]
Tharani, Yashasvi [VerfasserIn]
Cotton, Justin [VerfasserIn]
Milosh, Joseph B. [VerfasserIn]
Walker, David [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Fujian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xujie [VerfasserIn]
Parker, Kevin K. [VerfasserIn]
Bezzerides, Vassilios J. [VerfasserIn]
Pu, William T. [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2024.02.24.581789

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XBI042663067