Developmentally coordinated extrinsic signals drive human pluripotent stem cell differentiation toward authentic DARPP-32(+) medium-sized spiny neurons

Carri, Alessia Delli, Onorati, Marco, Lelos, Mariah Jillian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7102-055X, Castiglioni, Valentina, Faedo, Andrea, Menon, Ramesh, Camnasio, Stefano, Vuono, Romina, Spaiardi, Paolo, Talpo, Francesca, Toselli, Mauro, Martino, Gianvito, Barker, Roger A., Dunnett, Stephen Bruce ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1826-1578, Biella, Gerardo and Cattaneo, Elena 2013. Developmentally coordinated extrinsic signals drive human pluripotent stem cell differentiation toward authentic DARPP-32(+) medium-sized spiny neurons. Development 140 (2) , pp. 301-312. 10.1242/dev.084608

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Abstract

Medium-sized spiny neurons (MSNs) are the only neostriatum projection neurons, and their degeneration underlies some of the clinical features of Huntington’s disease. Using knowledge of human developmental biology and exposure to key neurodevelopmental molecules, human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells were induced to differentiate into MSNs. In a feeder-free adherent culture, ventral telencephalic specification is induced by BMP/TGF inhibition and subsequent SHH/DKK1 treatment. The emerging FOXG1+/GSX2+ telencephalic progenitors are then terminally differentiated, resulting in the systematic line-independent generation of FOXP1+/FOXP2+/CTIP2+/calbindin+/DARPP-32+ MSNs. Similar to mature MSNs, these neurons carry dopamine and A2a receptors, elicit a typical firing pattern and show inhibitory postsynaptic currents, as well as dopamine neuromodulation and synaptic integration ability in vivo. When transplanted into the striatum of quinolinic acid-lesioned rats, hPS-derived neurons survive and differentiate into DARPP-32+ neurons, leading to a restoration of apomorphine-induced rotation behavior. In summary, hPS cells can be efficiently driven to acquire a functional striatal fate using an ontogeny-recapitulating stepwise method that represents a platform for in vitro human developmental neurobiology studies and drug screening approaches.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	The Company of Biologists
ISSN:	0950-1991
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2022 08:59
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50113

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