title: Directed Differentiation of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells From Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
abstract: Several neurological disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, the leukodystrophies, and traumatic injury, result in loss of myelin in the central nervous system (CNS). These disorders may benefit from cell-based therapies that prevent further demyelination or are able to restore lost myelin. One potential therapeutic strategy for these disorders is the manufacture of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) by the directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells, including induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). It has been proposed that OPCs could be transplanted into demyelinated or dysmyelinated regions of the CNS, where they would migrate to the area of injury before terminally differentiating into myelinating oligodendrocytes. OPCs derived from mouse iPSCs are particularly useful for modeling this therapeutic approach and for studying the biology of oligodendrocyte progenitors because of the availability of mouse models of neurological disorders associated with myelin deficiency. Moreover, the utility of miPSC-derived OPCs would be significantly enhanced by the adoption of a consistent, reproducible differentiation protocol that allows OPCs derived from different cell lines to be robustly characterized and compared. Here we describe a standardized, defined protocol that reliably directs the differentiation of miPSCs to generate high yields of OPCs that are capable of maturing into oligodendrocytes.
authors.affiliation: Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Dino
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Terzic
authors.forename: Jacob R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Maxon
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Krevitt
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: DiBartolomeo
authors.forename: Tarini
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.forename: Walter C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Low
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Dutton
authors.forename: Ann M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Parr
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D057026:Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D051379:Mice; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000378:metabolism*; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000378:metabolism; D009836:Oligodendroglia / Q000166:cytology*