Cell-autonomous correction of ring chromosomes in human induced pluripotent stem cells. Bershteyn, M., Hayashi, Y., Desachy, G., Hsiao, E. C, Sami, S., Tsang, K. M, Weiss, L. A, Kriegstein, A. R, Yamanaka, S., & Wynshaw-Boris, A. Nature, 507(7490):99–103, January, 2014.
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Ring chromosomes are structural aberrations commonly associated with birth defects, mental disabilities and growth retardation. Rings form after fusion of the long and short arms of a chromosome, and are sometimes associated with large terminal deletions. Owing to the severity of these large aberrations that can affect multiple contiguous genes, no possible therapeutic strategies for ring chromosome disorders have been proposed. During cell division, ring chromosomes can exhibit unstable behaviour leading to continuous production of aneuploid progeny with low viability and high cellular death rate. The overall consequences of this chromosomal instability have been largely unexplored in experimental model systems. Here we generated human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patient fibroblasts containing ring chromosomes with large deletions and found that reprogrammed cells lost the abnormal chromosome and duplicated the wild-type homologue through the compensatory uniparental disomy (UPD) mechanism. The karyotypically normal iPSCs with isodisomy for the corrected chromosome outgrew co-existing aneuploid populations, enabling rapid and efficient isolation of patient-derived iPSCs devoid of the original chromosomal aberration. Our results suggest a fundamentally different function for cellular reprogramming as a means of 'chromosome therapy' to reverse combined loss-of-function across many genes in cells with large-scale aberrations involving ring structures. In addition, our work provides an experimentally tractable human cellular system for studying mechanisms of chromosomal number control, which is of critical relevance to human development and disease.
@ARTICLE{Bershteyn2014-ih,
  title    = "Cell-autonomous correction of ring chromosomes in human induced
              pluripotent stem cells",
  author   = "Bershteyn, Marina and Hayashi, Yohei and Desachy, Guillaume and
              Hsiao, Edward C and Sami, Salma and Tsang, Kathryn M and Weiss,
              Lauren A and Kriegstein, Arnold R and Yamanaka, Shinya and
              Wynshaw-Boris, Anthony",
  abstract = "Ring chromosomes are structural aberrations commonly associated
              with birth defects, mental disabilities and growth retardation.
              Rings form after fusion of the long and short arms of a
              chromosome, and are sometimes associated with large terminal
              deletions. Owing to the severity of these large aberrations that
              can affect multiple contiguous genes, no possible therapeutic
              strategies for ring chromosome disorders have been proposed.
              During cell division, ring chromosomes can exhibit unstable
              behaviour leading to continuous production of aneuploid progeny
              with low viability and high cellular death rate. The overall
              consequences of this chromosomal instability have been largely
              unexplored in experimental model systems. Here we generated human
              induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patient fibroblasts
              containing ring chromosomes with large deletions and found that
              reprogrammed cells lost the abnormal chromosome and duplicated
              the wild-type homologue through the compensatory uniparental
              disomy (UPD) mechanism. The karyotypically normal iPSCs with
              isodisomy for the corrected chromosome outgrew co-existing
              aneuploid populations, enabling rapid and efficient isolation of
              patient-derived iPSCs devoid of the original chromosomal
              aberration. Our results suggest a fundamentally different
              function for cellular reprogramming as a means of 'chromosome
              therapy' to reverse combined loss-of-function across many genes
              in cells with large-scale aberrations involving ring structures.
              In addition, our work provides an experimentally tractable human
              cellular system for studying mechanisms of chromosomal number
              control, which is of critical relevance to human development and
              disease.",
  journal  = "Nature",
  volume   =  507,
  number   =  7490,
  pages    = "99--103",
  month    =  jan,
  year     =  2014,
  language = "en"
}

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