Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO), Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany; REBIRTH-Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Leibniz-Forschnungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Stem Cell Reports. 2019 Jun 11;12(6):1389-1403. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2019.04.014. Epub 2019 May 9.
Organotypic culture systems from disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) exhibit obvious advantages compared with immortalized cell lines and primary cell cultures, but implementation of iPSC-based high-throughput (HT) assays is still technically challenging. Here, we demonstrate the development and conduction of an organotypic HT Cl/I exchange assay using cystic fibrosis (CF) disease-specific iPSCs. The introduction of a halide-sensitive YFP variant enabled automated quantitative measurement of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) function in iPSC-derived intestinal epithelia. CFTR function was partially rescued by treatment with VX-770 and VX-809, and seamless gene correction of the p.Phe508del mutation resulted in full restoration of CFTR function. The identification of a series of validated primary hits that improve the function of p.Phe508del CFTR from a library of ∼42,500 chemical compounds demonstrates that the advantages of complex iPSC-derived culture systems for disease modeling can also be utilized for drug screening in a true HT format.
与永生化细胞系和原代细胞培养相比,疾病特异性诱导多能干细胞(iPSC)的器官型培养系统具有明显的优势,但基于 iPSC 的高通量(HT)检测的实施仍然具有技术挑战性。在这里,我们展示了使用囊性纤维化(CF)疾病特异性 iPSC 开发和进行器官型 HT Cl/I 交换检测的过程。引入卤化物敏感的 YFP 变体使得能够自动定量测量源自 iPSC 的肠上皮中的囊性纤维化跨膜电导调节剂(CFTR)功能。用 VX-770 和 VX-809 处理部分挽救了 CFTR 功能,而 p.Phe508del 突变的无缝基因校正导致 CFTR 功能完全恢复。从约 42500 种化学化合物文库中鉴定出一系列经过验证的阳性对照物,这些阳性对照物可改善 p.Phe508del CFTR 的功能,这表明复杂的 iPSC 衍生培养系统在疾病建模方面的优势也可用于真正的 HT 格式的药物筛选。