Lineage-reprogramming of Pericyte-derived Cells of the Adult Human Brain into Induced NeuronsMarisa Karow 1, Christian Schichor 2, Ruth Beckervordersandforth 3, Benedikt Berninger 1,4
1Department of Physiological Genomics, Institute of Physiology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 2Tumor Biology Lab, Neurosurgical Clinic, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, 3Institut für Biochemie, Emil-Fischer-Zentrum, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 4Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Targeting brain-resident cells for direct lineage-reprogramming offers new perspectives for brain repair. Here we describe a protocol of how to prepare cultures enriched for brain-resident pericytes from the adult human cerebral cortex and convert these into induced neurons by retrovirus-mediated expression of the transcription factors Sox2 and Ascl1.
