Generation of an iPSC line from a patient with tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) deficiency: TH-1 iPSC
Summary
Fibroblasts from a male patient with compound heterozygous variants in the tyrosine hydroxylase gene (TH; OMIM: 191290; c.[385-C>T]; [692-G>C]/p.[R129*]; [R231P]), the rate-limiting enzyme for dopamine synthesis, were reprogrammed to iPSCs using episomal reprogramming delivering the reprogramming factors Oct3/4, Sox2, L-Myc, Lin28, Klf4 and p53 shRNA Okita et al. (2011). Pluripotency of TH-1 iPSC was verified by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR analysis. Cells exhibited a normal karyotype and differentiated spontaneously into the 3 germ layers in vitro. TH-1 iPSC represents the first model system to study the pathomechanism of this rare metabolic disease and provides a useful tool for drug testing. Copyright © 2016 Michael Boutros, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Authors | Jung-Klawitter S, Blau N, Sebe A, Ebersold J, Göhring G, Opladen T |
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| Journal | Stem cell research |
| Publication Date | 2016 Nov;17(3):580-583 |
| PubMed | 27934587 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.scr.2016.10.008 |