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- Title
Alignment of Skeletal Muscle Cells Facilitates Acetylcholine Receptor Clustering and Neuromuscular Junction Formation with Co-Cultured Human iPSC-Derived Motor Neurons.
- Authors
Shimizu, Kazunori; Kassai, Haruo; Kamei, Yuhei; Yamamoto, Kazuki; Nagashima, Takunori; Maekawa, Tadayoshi; Akiyama, Hirokazu; Honda, Hiroyuki
- Abstract
In vitro neuromuscular junction (NMJ) models are powerful tools for studying neuromuscular disorders. Although linearly patterned culture surfaces have been reported to be useful for the formation of in vitro NMJ models using mouse motor neuron (MNs) and skeletal muscle (SkM) myotubes, it is unclear how the linearly patterned culture surface increases acetylcholine receptor (AChR) clustering, one of the steps in the process of NMJ formation, and whether this increases the in vitro NMJ formation efficiency of co-cultured human MNs and SkM myotubes. In this study, we investigated the effects of a linearly patterned culture surface on AChR clustering in myotubes and examined the possible mechanism of the increase in AChR clustering using gene expression analysis, as well as the effects of the patterned surface on the efficiency of NMJ formation between co-cultured human SkM myotubes and human iPSC-derived MNs. Our results suggest that better differentiation of myotubes on the patterned surface, compared to the flat surface, induced gene expression of integrin α7 and AChR ε-subunit, thereby increasing AChR clustering. Furthermore, we found that the number of NMJs between human SkM cells and MNs increased upon co-culture on the linearly patterned surface, suggesting the usefulness of the patterned surface for creating in vitro human NMJ models.
- Subjects
MYONEURAL junction; CHOLINERGIC receptors; MUSCLE cells; SKELETAL muscle; MOTOR neurons; NEUROMUSCULAR diseases; GENE expression
- Publication
Cells (2073-4409), 2022, Vol 11, Issue 23, p3760
- ISSN
2073-4409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cells11233760