The role of neurod genes in brain development, function, and disease

S Tutukova, V Tarabykin… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Transcriptional regulation is essential for the correct functioning of cells during development
and in postnatal life. The basic Helix-loop-Helix (bHLH) superfamily of transcription factors is …

[HTML][HTML] Making neurons, made easy: The use of Neurogenin-2 in neuronal differentiation

AJ Hulme, S Maksour, MSC Glover, S Miellet, M Dottori - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Directed neuronal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), neural
progenitors, or fibroblasts using transcription factors has allowed for the rapid and highly …

Early Alzheimer's disease pathology in human cortex involves transient cell states

V Gazestani, T Kamath, NM Nadaf, A Dougalis… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cellular perturbations underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are primarily studied in human
postmortem samples and model organisms. Here, we generated a single-nucleus atlas from …

APOE4 causes widespread molecular and cellular alterations associated with Alzheimer's disease phenotypes in human iPSC-derived brain cell types

YT Lin, J Seo, F Gao, HM Feldman, HL Wen, J Penney… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Summary The apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) variant is the single greatest genetic risk factor for
sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD). However, the cell-type-specific functions of APOE4 in …

Orthogonally induced differentiation of stem cells for the programmatic patterning of vascularized organoids and bioprinted tissues

MA Skylar-Scott, JY Huang, A Lu, AHM Ng… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The generation of organoids and tissues with programmable cellular complexity,
architecture and function would benefit from the simultaneous differentiation of human …

SUPPA2: fast, accurate, and uncertainty-aware differential splicing analysis across multiple conditions

JL Trincado, JC Entizne, G Hysenaj, B Singh, M Skalic… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Despite the many approaches to study differential splicing from RNA-seq, many challenges
remain unsolved, including computing capacity and sequencing depth requirements. Here …

GPNMB confers risk for Parkinson's disease through interaction with α-synuclein

ME Diaz-Ortiz, Y Seo, M Posavi, M Carceles Cordon… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Many risk loci for Parkinson's disease (PD) have been identified by genome-wide
association studies (GWASs), but target genes and mechanisms remain largely unknown …

L1CAM is not associated with extracellular vesicles in human cerebrospinal fluid or plasma

M Norman, D Ter-Ovanesyan, W Trieu, R Lazarovits… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
L1CAM is a transmembrane protein expressed on neurons that was presumed to be found
on neuron-derived extracellular vesicles (NDEVs) in human biofluids. We developed a …

A comprehensive library of human transcription factors for cell fate engineering

AHM Ng, P Khoshakhlagh, JE Rojo Arias… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer an unprecedented opportunity to model diverse
cell types and tissues. To enable systematic exploration of the programming landscape …

Transcription factor–mediated differentiation of human iPSCs into neurons

MS Fernandopulle, R Prestil… - Current protocols in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate modeling of human neuronal cell biology has been a long‐standing challenge.
However, methods to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to neurons …