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Single-Cell Analysis Reveals a Close Relationship between Differentiating Dopamine and Subthalamic Nucleus Neuronal Lineages

Kee, Nigel ; Volakakis, Nikolaos ; Kirkeby, Agnete LU ; Dahl, Lina ; Storvall, Helena ; Nolbrant, Sara LU ; Lahti, Laura ; Björklund, Åsa K. ; Gillberg, Linda and Joodmardi, Eliza , et al. (2017) In Cell Stem Cell 20(1). p.29-40
Abstract

Stem cell engineering and grafting of mesencephalic dopamine (mesDA) neurons is a promising strategy for brain repair in Parkinson's disease (PD). Refinement of differentiation protocols to optimize this approach will require deeper understanding of mesDA neuron development. Here, we studied this process using transcriptome-wide single-cell RNA sequencing of mouse neural progenitors expressing the mesDA neuron determinant Lmx1a. This approach resolved the differentiation of mesDA and neighboring neuronal lineages and revealed a remarkably close relationship between developing mesDA and subthalamic nucleus (STN) neurons, while also highlighting a distinct transcription factor set that can distinguish between them. While previous hESC... (More)

Stem cell engineering and grafting of mesencephalic dopamine (mesDA) neurons is a promising strategy for brain repair in Parkinson's disease (PD). Refinement of differentiation protocols to optimize this approach will require deeper understanding of mesDA neuron development. Here, we studied this process using transcriptome-wide single-cell RNA sequencing of mouse neural progenitors expressing the mesDA neuron determinant Lmx1a. This approach resolved the differentiation of mesDA and neighboring neuronal lineages and revealed a remarkably close relationship between developing mesDA and subthalamic nucleus (STN) neurons, while also highlighting a distinct transcription factor set that can distinguish between them. While previous hESC mesDA differentiation protocols have relied on markers that are shared between the two lineages, we found that application of these highlighted markers can help to refine current stem cell engineering protocols, increasing the proportion of appropriately patterned mesDA progenitors. Our results, therefore, have important implications for cell replacement therapy in PD.

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development, dopamine, embryogenesis, graph clustering, hypothalamus, neurogenesis, Parkinson's disease, single cell RNA-seq, stem cell, subthalamic nucleus
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Cell Stem Cell
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20
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1
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12 pages
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Cell Press
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  • scopus:85006080817
  • pmid:28094018
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1934-5909
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10.1016/j.stem.2016.10.003
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English
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  author       = {{Kee, Nigel and Volakakis, Nikolaos and Kirkeby, Agnete and Dahl, Lina and Storvall, Helena and Nolbrant, Sara and Lahti, Laura and Björklund, Åsa K. and Gillberg, Linda and Joodmardi, Eliza and Sandberg, Rickard and Parmar, Malin and Perlmann, Thomas}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  pages        = {{29--40}},
  publisher    = {{Cell Press}},
  series       = {{Cell Stem Cell}},
  title        = {{Single-Cell Analysis Reveals a Close Relationship between Differentiating Dopamine and Subthalamic Nucleus Neuronal Lineages}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2016.10.003}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.stem.2016.10.003}},
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