Lymphoblast-derived integration-free iPSC line AD-TREM2-3 from a 74 year-old Alzheimer's disease patient expressing the TREM2 p.R47H variant

Stem Cell Res. 2018 Jul:30:141-144. doi: 10.1016/j.scr.2018.05.018. Epub 2018 Jun 1.

Abstract

Human lymphoblast cells from a male diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) expressing the TREM2 p.R47H variant were used to generate integration-free induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by over-expressing episomal-based plasmids harbouring OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, LIN28, L-MYC and p53 shRNA. The derived iPSC line - AD-TREM2-3 was defined as pluripotent based on (i) expression of pluripotency-associated markers (ii) embryoid body-based differentiation into cell types representative of the three germ layers and (iii) the similarity between the transcriptome of the iPSC line and the human embryonic stem cell line H1 with a Pearson correlation of 0.940.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Alzheimer Disease / genetics*
  • Alzheimer Disease / metabolism
  • Alzheimer Disease / pathology
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Cell Line
  • Humans
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / cytology
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / metabolism*
  • Kruppel-Like Factor 4
  • Male
  • Membrane Glycoproteins / genetics*
  • Receptors, Immunologic / genetics*

Substances

  • KLF4 protein, human
  • Kruppel-Like Factor 4
  • Membrane Glycoproteins
  • Receptors, Immunologic
  • TREM2 protein, human