Generation of induced pluripotent stem cell line (ZZUi0018-A ) from a patient with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6

Summary

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease caused by repeated CAG amplification in the CACNA1A gene. There is no specific treatment for SCA6, and the currently administered treatment is mainly symptomatic. The fibroblasts from a patient with SCA6 were successfully transformed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), employing episomal plasmids expressing OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, LIN28, and l-MYC. Our method provides a platform for further studies on elucidating the mechanism underlying SCA6 pathogenesis, drug testing, and gene therapy. Du and Gomez C, 2018; McGrath et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2019. Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Authors Yang T, Qin J, Zhang Q, Sun H, Wang Z, Yang J, Liu H, Zhang C, Zhang S, Zhang J, Wang Y, Xu Y
Journal Stem cell research
Publication Date 2020 Apr;44:101777
PubMed 32229428
DOI 10.1016/j.scr.2020.101777

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