Current challenges of iPSC-based disease modeling and therapeutic implications

MX Doss, A Sachinidis - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based disease modelling and the cell replacement
therapy approach have proven to be very powerful and instrumental in biomedical research …

Induced pluripotent stem cells and their use in human models of disease and development

P Karagiannis, K Takahashi, M Saito… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The discovery of somatic cell nuclear transfer proved that somatic cells can carry the same
genetic code as the zygote, and that activating parts of this code are sufficient to reprogram …

Metabolic reprogramming during neuronal differentiation from aerobic glycolysis to neuronal oxidative phosphorylation

X Zheng, L Boyer, M Jin, J Mertens, Y Kim, L Ma, L Ma… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
How metabolism is reprogrammed during neuronal differentiation is unknown. We found that
the loss of hexokinase (HK2) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDHA) expression, together with …

The SWI/SNF complex is a mechanoregulated inhibitor of YAP and TAZ

L Chang, L Azzolin, D Di Biagio, F Zanconato… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Inactivation of ARID1A and other components of the nuclear SWI/SNF protein complex
occurs at very high frequencies in a variety of human malignancies, suggesting a …

VLDLR and ApoER2 are receptors for multiple alphaviruses

LE Clark, SA Clark, CY Lin, J Liu, A Coscia, KG Nabel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Alphaviruses, like many other arthropod-borne viruses, infect vertebrate species and insect
vectors separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history. Entry into …

Pluripotent stem cells induced from mouse somatic cells by small-molecule compounds

P Hou, Y Li, X Zhang, C Liu, J Guan, H Li, T Zhao, J Ye… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Pluripotent stem cells can be induced from somatic cells, providing an unlimited cell
resource, with potential for studying disease and use in regenerative medicine. However …

[HTML][HTML] Facilitators and impediments of the pluripotency reprogramming factors' initial engagement with the genome

A Soufi, G Donahue, KS Zaret - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The ectopic expression of transcription factors can reprogram cell fate, yet it is unknown how
the initial binding of factors to the genome relates functionally to the binding seen in the …

Lipidomic analysis of α-synuclein neurotoxicity identifies stearoyl CoA desaturase as a target for Parkinson treatment

S Fanning, A Haque, T Imberdis, V Baru, MI Barrasa… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
In Parkinson's disease (PD), α-synuclein (αS) pathologically impacts the brain, a highly lipid-
rich organ. We investigated how alterations in αS or lipid/fatty acid homeostasis affect each …

Induced pluripotent stem cells: applications in regenerative medicine, disease modeling, and drug discovery

VK Singh, M Kalsan, N Kumar, A Saini… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent progresses in the field of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) have opened up
many gateways for the research in therapeutics. iPSCs are the cells which are …

[HTML][HTML] The Hippo transducer TAZ confers cancer stem cell-related traits on breast cancer cells

M Cordenonsi, F Zanconato, L Azzolin, M Forcato… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are proposed to drive tumor initiation and progression. Yet, our
understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie CSC properties is …