Modelling kidney disease with CRISPR-mutant kidney organoids derived from human pluripotent epiblast spheroids.
Authors:Freedman BS,Brooks CR,Lam AQ,Fu H,Morizane R,Agrawal V,Saad AF,Li MK,Hughes MR,Werff RV,Peters DT,Lu J,Baccei A,Siedlecki AM,Valerius MT,Musunuru K,McNagny KM,Steinman TI,Zhou J,Lerou PH,Bonventre JV
Journal:Nature communications
PubMed ID:26493500
Human-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived kidney cells (hPSC-KCs) have important potential for disease modelling and regeneration. Whether the hPSC-KCs can reconstitute tissue-specific phenotypes is currently unknown. Here we show that hPSC-KCs self-organize into kidney organoids that functionally recapitulate tissue-specific epithelial physiology, including disease phenotypes after genome editing. In three-dimensional cultures, epiblast-stage hPSCs form spheroids ... More