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Predicting the functional states of human iPSC-derived neurons with single-cell RNA-seq and electrophysiology.

Molecular psychiatry · 2016 · Vol. 21 (11) · pp. 1573-1588

Abstract

Human neural progenitors derived from pluripotent stem cells develop into electrophysiologically active neurons at heterogeneous rates, which can confound disease-relevant discoveries in neurology and psychiatry. By combining patch clamping, morphological and transcriptome analysis on single-human neurons in vitro, we defined a continuum of poor to highly functional electrophysiological states of differentiated neurons. The strong correlations between action potentials, synaptic activity, dendritic complexity and gene expression highlight the importance of methods for isolating functionally comparable neurons for in vitro investigations of brain disorders. Although whole-cell electrophysiology is the gold standard for functional evaluation, it often lacks the scalability required for disease modeling studies. Here, we demonstrate a multimodal machine-learning strategy to identify new molecular features that predict the physiological states of single neurons, independently of the time spent in vitro. As further proof of concept, we selected one of the potential neurophysiological biomarkers identified in this study-GDAP1L1-to isolate highly functional live human neurons in vitro.

Publication Types

["Journal Article", "Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural", "Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't", "Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S."]

Keywords

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MeSH Terms

["Action Potentials", "Cell Differentiation", "Cells, Cultured", "Electrophysiology", "Humans", "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells", "Machine Learning", "Neurons", "Patch-Clamp Techniques", "Pluripotent Stem Cells", "RNA", "Sequence Analysis, RNA", "Single-Cell Analysis"]

Funding

R01 HG004659 NHGRI NIH HHS (United States)
P30 CA023100 NCI NIH HHS (United States)
P30 CA014195 NCI NIH HHS (United States)
U54 HG007005 NHGRI NIH HHS (United States)
R01 NS075449 NINDS NIH HHS (United States)
R01 MH095741 NIMH NIH HHS (United States)

Linked Datasets (1)

GSE159074 GSE via ncbi_elink
GEO

Predicting the functional states of human iPSC-derived neurons with single-cell RNA-seq and electrophysiology

Homo sapiens
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