Metabolic Maturation Media Improve Physiological Function of Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes

Dries A M Feyen, Wesley L McKeithan, Arne A N Bruyneel, Sean Spiering, Larissa Hörmann, Bärbel Ulmer, Hui Zhang, Francesca Briganti, Michaela Schweizer, Bence Hegyi, Zhandi Liao, Risto-Pekka Pölönen, Kenneth S Ginsburg, Chi Keung Lam, Ricardo Serrano, Christine Wahlquist, Alexander Kreymerman, Michelle Vu, Prashila L Amatya, Charlotta S BehrensSara Ranjbarvaziri, Renee G C Maas, Matthew Greenhaw, Daniel Bernstein, Joseph C Wu, Donald M Bers, Thomas Eschenhagen, Christian M Metallo, Mark Mercola

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Abstract

Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) have enormous potential for the study of human cardiac disorders. However, their physiological immaturity severely limits their utility as a model system and their adoption for drug discovery. Here, we describe maturation media designed to provide oxidative substrates adapted to the metabolic needs of human iPSC (hiPSC)-CMs. Compared with conventionally cultured hiPSC-CMs, metabolically matured hiPSC-CMs contract with greater force and show an increased reliance on cardiac sodium (Na+) channels and sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium (Ca2+) cycling. The media enhance the function, long-term survival, and sarcomere structures in engineered heart tissues. Use of the maturation media made it possible to reliably model two genetic cardiac diseases: long QT syndrome type 3 due to a mutation in the cardiac Na+ channel SCN5A and dilated cardiomyopathy due to a mutation in the RNA splicing factor RBM20. The maturation media should increase the fidelity of hiPSC-CMs as disease models.

Original languageEnglish
Article number107925
JournalCell Reports
Volume32
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jul 2020

Keywords

  • cardiomyocyte
  • dilated cardiomyopathy
  • disease modeling
  • engineered heart tissues
  • induced pluripotent stem cells
  • long QT syndrome 3
  • maturation
  • physiology

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