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- Title
Epigenetic Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Differentiation from Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
- Authors
Kim, Yong-Jin; Tamadon, Amin; Kim, Yoon-Young; Kang, Byeong-Cheol; Ku, Seung-Yup
- Abstract
With the intent to achieve the best modalities for myocardial cell therapy, different cell types are being evaluated as potent sources for differentiation into cardiomyocytes. Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells have great potential for future progress in the treatment of myocardial diseases. We reviewed aspects of epigenetic mechanisms that play a role in the differentiation of these cells into cardiomyocytes. Cardiomyocytes proliferate during fetal life, and after birth, they undergo permanent terminal differentiation. Upregulation of cardiac-specific genes in adults induces hypertrophy due to terminal differentiation. The repression or expression of these genes is controlled by chromatin structural and epigenetic changes. However, few studies have reviewed and analyzed the epigenetic aspects of the differentiation of embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells into cardiac lineage cells. In this review, we focus on the current knowledge of epigenetic regulation of cardiomyocyte proliferation and differentiation from embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells through histone modification and microRNAs, the maintenance of pluripotency, and its alteration during cardiac lineage differentiation.
- Subjects
PLURIPOTENT stem cells; EMBRYONIC stem cells; HEART cells; EPIGENETICS; CELL differentiation; CARDIOMYOPATHIES
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 16, p8599
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms22168599