Efficient induction of dopaminergic neuron differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells reveals impaired mitophagy in PARK2 neurons

Sadafumi Suzuki, Wado Akamatsu, Fumihiko Kisa, Takefumi Sone, Kei ichi Ishikawa, Naoko Kuzumaki, Hiroyuki Katayama, Atsushi Miyawaki, Nobutaka Hattori, Hideyuki Okano

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Abstract

Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) show promise for use as tools for in vitro modeling of Parkinson's disease. We sought to improve the efficiency of dopaminergic (DA) neuron induction from iPSCs by the using surface markers expressed in DA progenitors to increase the significance of the phenotypic analysis. By sorting for a CD184high/CD44- fraction during neural differentiation, we obtained a population of cells that were enriched in DA neuron precursor cells and achieved higher differentiation efficiencies than those obtained through the same protocol without sorting. This high efficiency method of DA neuronal induction enabled reliable detection of reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and vulnerable phenotypes in PARK2 iPSCs-derived DA neurons. We additionally established a quantitative system using the mt-mKeima reporter system to monitor mitophagy in which mitochondria fuse with lysosomes and, by combining this system with the method of DA neuronal induction described above, determined that mitophagy is impaired in PARK2 neurons. These findings suggest that the efficiency of DA neuron induction is important for the precise detection of cellular phenotypes in modeling Parkinson's disease.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)88-93
Number of pages6
JournalBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume483
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Jan 29

Keywords

  • Dopaminergic neurons
  • Flow cytometry
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells
  • Mitophagy
  • Parkinson's disease

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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