Generation of a Double Reporter mES Cell Line to Simultaneously Trace the Generation of Retinal Progenitors and Photoreceptors.
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serval:BIB_01BEC1A53AE1
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Generation of a Double Reporter mES Cell Line to Simultaneously Trace the Generation of Retinal Progenitors and Photoreceptors.
Journal
Cells
ISSN
2073-4409 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2073-4409
Publication state
Published
Issued date
10/02/2025
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
14
Number
4
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: epublish
Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
Three-dimensional retinal culture systems help to understand eye development and the pathology of disorders. There is a need for reporter stem cell lines to allow in vitro studies on retinal progenitors and photoreceptors and their developmental dynamics or properties and to test therapeutic approaches. The isolation of pure progenitor populations or photoreceptor precursors may serve for drug, gene, and cell therapy development. Here, we generated a dual-reporter mouse embryonic stem cell line Crx-GFP;Rax-mCherry enabling the visualization or isolation of photoreceptors and retinal progenitors from retinal organoid settings. From day 4 organoids, we isolated mCherry-positive cells to assess their early retinal progenitor identity with proliferation tests as well as transcriptomic and proteomic profiling. The timing of eye field transcription factor expression at the transcriptomic and protein levels is in accordance with mouse retinogenesis. This new line will be helpful for rapidly investigating biological questions or testing therapeutics before using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which require a much longer time for retinal organoid formation.
Keywords
Animals, Mice, Retina/cytology, Retina/metabolism, Cell Line, Organoids/cytology, Organoids/metabolism, Cell Differentiation, Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/cytology, Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/metabolism, Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells/metabolism, Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells/cytology, Genes, Reporter, Photoreceptor Cells/metabolism, Photoreceptor Cells/cytology, Cell Proliferation, Rax gene, cell tracing, reporter line, retinal organoids, retinal progenitor cells, stem cells
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