Abstract
Ionotropic glutamate and GABA receptors regulate the differentiation and determine the functional properties of mature neurons. Both insufficient and excessive activity of these neurotransmission systems are associated with various nervous system diseases. Our knowledge regarding the expression profiles of these receptors and the mechanisms of their regulation during the differentiation of specialized human neuron subtypes is limited. Here the expression profiles of the NMDA and GABAA receptor subunits were explored during in vitro differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into ventral mesencephalic neurons. The correlation between the neuronal maturation and the expression dynamics of these genes was investigated, and the functional activity of these receptors was assessed by calcium imaging. The role of NMDA and GABAA receptors in neurite outgrowth and the development of spontaneous activity was analyzed using the viral transduction of neural progenitors with the reporter genes TagGFP and TagRFP. The data indicate that agonists of the investigated receptors can be employed for optimization of existing protocols for neural differentiation of iPSCs, in particular for acceleration of neuronal maturation.
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Abbreviations
- BDNF:
-
brain derived nerve growth factor
- (c)NPs:
-
(committed) neural progenitors
- eNPs:
-
early neural progenitors
- ESCs:
-
embryonic stem cells
- GABA:
-
α-aminobutyric acid
- GABAA-R:
-
GABAA receptors
- GDNF:
-
glial cell derived nerve growth factor
- iPSCs:
-
induced pluripotent stem cells
- NMDA:
-
N-methyl-D-aspartic acid
- NMDA-R:
-
NMDA receptors
- RT-PCR:
-
reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
- TD:
-
terminal differentiation
- VM neurons:
-
ventral mesencephalic neurons
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Published in Russian in Biokhimiya, 2019, Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 436–447.
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Antonov, S.A., Novosadova, E.V., Kobylyansky, A.G. et al. Expression and Functional Properties of NMDA and GABAA Receptors during Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Ventral Mesencephalic Neurons. Biochemistry Moscow 84, 310–320 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297919030131
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