Establishment of a human induced stem cell line (FUi002-A) from Dravet syndrome patient carrying heterozygous R1525X mutation in SCN1A gene
Summary
De novo mutations in SCN1A are the most common cause of Dravet syndrome (DS), an infantile-onset epileptic encephalopathy. In this study, human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) line FUi002-A was generated from skin fibroblasts obtained from a clinically diagnosed 26-year-old male DS patient with the R1525X variant of the SCN1A gene. Skin fibroblasts were reprogrammed using OriP/EBNA-1 based episomal plasmids expressing reprogramming factors expressing OCT4, SOX2, KLF-4, L-MYC, LIN28, and p53 shRNA. The transgene-free FUi002-A showed pluripotency, three germ layer differentiation capacity in vitro, and a normal karyotype. The resulting hiPSCs were heterozygous for the mutation in the SCN1A gene. Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Authors | Tanaka Y, Higurashi N, Shirasu N, Yasunaga S, Moreira KM, Okano H, Hirose S |
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| Journal | Stem cell research |
| Publication Date | 2018 Aug;31:11-15 |
| PubMed | 29981888 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.scr.2018.06.008 |