Abstract
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations frequently cause neurological diseases. Modeling of these defects has been difficult because of the challenges associated with engineering mtDNA. We show here that neural progenitor cells (NPCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) retain the parental mtDNA profile and exhibit a metabolic switch toward oxidative phosphorylation. NPCs derived in this way from patients carrying a deleterious homoplasmic mutation in the mitochondrial gene MT-ATP6 (m.9185T>C) showed defective ATP production and abnormally high mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), plus altered calcium homeostasis, which represents a potential cause of neural impairment. High-content screening of FDA-approved drugs using the MMP phenotype highlighted avanafil, which we found was able to partially rescue the calcium defect in patient NPCs and differentiated neurons. Overall, our results show that iPSC-derived NPCs provide an effective model for drug screening to target mtDNA disorders that affect the nervous system.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 659-674.e9 |
Journal | Cell Stem Cell |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 26 Jan 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 26 Jan 2017 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Calcium
- Cell Line
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Drug Discovery
- Humans
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
- Mitochondria
- Mutation
- Neural Stem Cells
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Josef Priller
- Deanery of Clinical Sciences - Chair of Brain Inflammation and Repair
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
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