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Series GSE252979 Query DataSets for GSE252979
Status Public on Jan 14, 2024
Title Macrophages derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) serve as a high-fidelity cellular model for investigating HIV-1, dengue, and influenza viruses
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary Macrophages are important target cells for diverse viruses, and thus represent a valuable model system for studying virus biology. Isolation of primary human macrophages is done by culture of dissociated tissues or from differentiated blood monocytes, but these methods are both time consuming and result in low numbers of recovered macrophages. Here, we explore whether macrophages derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)—which proliferate indefinitely and potentially provide unlimited starting material— could serve as a faithful model system for studying virus biology. Human iPSC-derived monocytes were differentiated into macrophages and then infected with HIV-1, dengue virus, or influenza virus as model macrophage-tropic human viruses. We show that iPSC-derived macrophages supported the replication of these viruses with similar kinetics and phenotypes to human blood monocyte-derived macrophages. These iPSC-derived macrophages were virtually indistinguishable from human blood monocyte-derived macrophages based on surface marker expression analysis (flow cytometry), transcriptomics (RNA-seq), and chromatin accessibility profiling (ATAC-seq) approaches. iPSC lines were additionally generated from nonhuman primate (chimpanzee) fibroblasts. When challenged with dengue virus, human and nonhuman primate iPSC-derived macrophages show differential susceptibility to infection, thus providing a valuable resource for studying the species-tropism of viruses. Collectively, our results substantiate iPSC-derived macrophages as an alternative to blood monocyte-derived macrophages for the study of virus biology.
 
Overall design We differentiated human iPSCs into hematopoietic stem progenitor cells (HSPCs), then differentiated those HSPCs into monocytes. Monocytes were loosely adherent to the HSPCs and were readily harvested by gentle washing of the cell monolayer with growth media every 4-5 days, followed by media replacement for continued growth. We next confirmed that iPSC derived monocytes could differentiate into macrophages and polarize into phenotypically distinct subtypes. Adherent monocytes were treated with macrophage colony stimulating factor for four days to generate naïve macrophages. M0 macrophages were then polarized into M1 or M2 subsets using interferon-gamma and lipopolysaccharide or interleukin-4, respectively. To examine whether blood- and iPSC-derived macrophages exhibit similar transcriptional profiles, we carried out transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility analyses of all cell types during differentiation and subsequent polarization via RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) and Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin-sequencing (ATAC-seq).
 
Contributor(s) Yang Q, Barbachano-Guerrero A, Fairchild LM, Rowland TJ, Allen MA, Dowell RD, Warren CJ, Sawyer SL
Citation(s) 38323811
Submission date Jan 10, 2024
Last update date Apr 02, 2024
Contact name Sara L Sawyer
Organization name University of Colorado Boulder
Department BioFrontiers Institute
Street address 3415 Colorado Ave.,
City Boulder
State/province CO
ZIP/Postal code 80309
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL24676 Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (Homo sapiens)
Samples (28)
GSM8011789 RNA_iPSC_1
GSM8011790 RNA_iPSC_2
GSM8011791 RNA_iM0_1
Relations
BioProject PRJNA1063364

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GSE252979_atac_peaks_counts_genrich.csv.gz 5.9 Mb (ftp)(http) CSV
GSE252979_merged_narrowPeak.gtf.gz 2.7 Mb (ftp)(http) GTF
GSE252979_rnaseq_raw_counts.csv.gz 2.2 Mb (ftp)(http) CSV
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