Standardized production of hPSC-derived cardiomyocyte aggregates in stirred spinner flasks.


Journal

Nature protocols
ISSN: 1750-2799
Titre abrégé: Nat Protoc
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101284307

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
28 Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 04 07 2023
accepted: 17 01 2024
medline: 29 3 2024
pubmed: 29 3 2024
entrez: 29 3 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

A promising cell-therapy approach for heart failure aims at differentiating human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into functional cardiomyocytes (CMs) in vitro to replace the disease-induced loss of patients' heart muscle cells in vivo. But many challenges remain for the routine clinical application of hPSC-derived CMs (hPSC-CMs), including good manufacturing practice (GMP)-compliant production strategies. This protocol describes the efficient generation of hPSC-CM aggregates in suspension culture, emphasizing process simplicity, robustness and GMP compliance. The strategy promotes clinical translation and other applications that require large numbers of CMs. Using a simple spinner-flask platform, this protocol is applicable to a broad range of users with general experience in handling hPSCs without extensive know-how in biotechnology. hPSCs are expanded in monolayer to generate the required cell numbers for process inoculation in suspension culture, followed by stirring-controlled formation of cell-only aggregates at a 300-ml scale. After 48 h at checkpoint (CP) 0, chemically defined cardiac differentiation is induced by WNT-pathway modulation through use of the glycogen-synthase kinase-3 inhibitor CHIR99021 (WNT agonist), which is replaced 24 h later by the chemical WNT-pathway inhibitor IWP-2. The exact application of the described process parameters is important to ensure process efficiency and robustness. After 10 d of differentiation (CP I), the production of ≥100 × 10

Identifiants

pubmed: 38548938
doi: 10.1038/s41596-024-00976-2
pii: 10.1038/s41596-024-00976-2
doi:

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Journal Article Review

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eng

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Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
ID : REBIRTH EXC 62/2, ZW64/4-2
Organisme : Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
ID : 01EK1601A, 13XP5092B, 031L0249, 01EK2108A
Organisme : Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture)
ID : ZN3340, ZN4092
Organisme : European Commission (EC)
ID : 101056712

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© 2024. Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Nils Kriedemann (N)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany. kriedemann.nils@mh-hannover.de.

Wiebke Triebert (W)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.
Evotec, Hamburg, Germany.

Jana Teske (J)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.

Mira Mertens (M)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.

Annika Franke (A)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.

Kevin Ullmann (K)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.

Felix Manstein (F)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.
Evotec, Hamburg, Germany.

Lika Drakhlis (L)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.

Alexandra Haase (A)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.

Caroline Halloin (C)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.
Department of Cell Therapy Process Technology, Novo Nordisk, Måløv, Denmark.

Ulrich Martin (U)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.

Robert Zweigerdt (R)

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (HTTG), Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO); REBIRTH-Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine; Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany. zweigerdt.robert@mh-hannover.de.

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