Name: efficient generation and editing of feeder-free ipscs from human pancreatic cells using the crispr-cas9 system
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Work in the lab was supported by postdoctoral fellowship grant to Dr. Anjali Nandal, and Exploratory grant from Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund to BT (TEDCO).

1. Reprogramming Protocol
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	<li>Generation of human iPSC from primary human pancreatic cells
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		<li>Coat a 6-well plate with 1.5 mg/mL cold collagen and allow it to gel at 37 &#176;C for 1 h.</li>
		<li>Plate early passage human primary pancreatic cells in Prigrow III medium (~1 - 1.5 &#215; 105 cells) on a collagen coated 6-well plate on day -2 to achieve approximately 2.5 &#215; 105 cells or at least 60% confluency per well on the day of transduction (day 0). For the fi...

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Reprogramming of human somatic cells to iPSCs has provided a major boost to the fields of basic biology research, personalized medicine, disease modeling, drug development and regenerative medicine16. Many current and widely used methods of human iPSC generation require the use of virus with the risk of integration into the host genome or episomal vectors with low reprogramming efficiency. Here, we present an efficient method for generating feeder-free iPSCs from human pancreatic cells with Sendai...

The reprogramming of human somatic cells to the pluripotent state by overexpression of reprogramming factors has revolutionized stem cell research with applications in disease modeling, regenerative medicine, and drug development. Several non-viral reprogramming methods are available for delivery of reprogramming factors and generating iPSCs, but the process is labor intensive and not very efficient1. The viral methods, though efficient, are associated with problems of virus integration and tumorigenicity2,3,4. In this manuscript, we report the use of cytoplasmic Sendai virus for delivering reprogramming factors and establishing footprint-free iPSC lines that lack integration of any viral vector sequences into their genomes5. Sendai virus is an RNA virus that is diluted out of cell cytoplasm ~10 passages after infection and produces reprogramming factors in abundance, leading to rapid and efficient reprogramming6,7. The established iPSCs can then be readily transitioned to feeder-free medium&#160;to avoid the use of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) as feeder cells8.
In this publication, in addition to outlining the Sendai virus mediated reprogramming, we also describe an improved protocol for editing iPSCs, which has the potential to supply unlimited human cells with desired genetic modifications for research. We have used CRISPR/Cas9 technology for the modification of iPSCs, which is now being used for a wide range of applications including knock-ins and knockouts, large-scale genomic deletions, pooled library screening for gene discovery, genetic engineering of numerous model organisms, and gene therapy9,10,11. This technique involves the formation of complexes of Streptococcus pyogenes-derived Cas9 nuclease and 20-mer guide RNAs that achieve target recognition via base-pairing with genomic target sequence adjacent to 3&#39; nucleotide protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequence. The Cas9 nuclease induces a double stranded break ~3 nucleotides from the PAM site, which is subsequently repaired predominantly by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway leading to insertions or deletions in the open reading frame, and thereby functional knockout of genes12.
Our improved protocol includes the details for culture of human pancreatic cells, their reprogramming on mitotically inactivated mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) to achieve higher efficiency of reprogramming, subsequent adaptation to feeder-free culture on Matrigel, characterization of established iPSCs, CRISPR guided RNA design and preparation, delivery into iPSCs as RNP complexes, single cell sorting to generate clonal lines of edited iPSCs, easy screening and identification of edits, and characterization of single cell clones. Genomic deletions were efficiently generated in this study by the introduction of Cas9 protein and two CRISPR sgRNA RNP complexes to induce double stranded breaks (DSBs) and deletion of the intervening segment. This method capitalizes on the use of two guides for generating deletions in the open reading frame, high efficiency of NHEJ leading to low number of clones that need to be characterized, and easy preliminary screening of clones by the automated capillary electrophoresis unit, fragment analyzer. These effective genome editing methods to generate human stem cell-based disease models will soon become a standard and routine approach in any stem cell laboratory. Finally, precise genome editing will make it possible to go beyond stem cell disease modeling and potentially could help catalyze cell-based therapies.

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			<td>Sendai viral vectors - CytoTune-iPS 2.0 Kit</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>A16517</td>
			<td>Thaw on ice; S No: 1</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Trypsin EDTA</td>
			<td>Gibco Life Tech</td>
			<td>25300-054</td>
			<td>0.05%, 100 ml; S No: 2</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Rock inhibitor (Y-27632)</td>
			<td>Milipore</td>
			<td>SCM075</td>
			<td>Use 10 &#956;M; S No: 3</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>DMEM/F-12 medium</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>11330-032</td>
			<td>S No: 4</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Serum replacement (KSR)</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>10828028</td>
			<td>S No: 5</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>DMEM</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>11960069</td>
			<td>1X; S No: 6</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Fetal bovine serum</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>SH30071.03</td>
			<td>Aliquot; S No: 7</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>L-glutamine (Glutamax, 100X), liquid</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>35050061</td>
			<td>1/100; S No: 8</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Non-Essential Amino Acids</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>11140-050</td>
			<td>1/100; S No: 9</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>2-Mercaptoethanol</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>21985023</td>
			<td>55 mM, 1/1,000; S No: 10</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Hausser Hemacytometers</td>
			<td>Hausser Scientific</td>
			<td>02-671-54</td>
			<td>S No: 11</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>&#160;0.1% Gelatin Solution</td>
			<td>STEMCELL Technologies</td>
			<td>7903</td>
			<td>Incubate at 37&#186; C for 1 hour; S No: 12</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>SSEA-4 antibody</td>
			<td>Santacruz</td>
			<td>sc-21704</td>
			<td>1/100; S No: 13</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>TRA-1-81 antibody</td>
			<td>Cell Signaling</td>
			<td>4745S</td>
			<td>1/200; S No: 14</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>&#160;OCT4 antibody</td>
			<td>Santa Cruz</td>
			<td>sc-5279</td>
			<td>1/1,000; S No: 15</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Collagen I, Rat Tail</td>
			<td>Life Technologies</td>
			<td>A10483-01</td>
			<td>Keep cold; S No: 16</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Alexa Fluor fluorescent 488/ 568 (secondary antibodies)</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>A21202/A10042</td>
			<td>1/2,000; S No: 17</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>DPBS</td>
			<td>Hyclone</td>
			<td>SH30028LS</td>
			<td>1X; S No: 18</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>100-mm tissue culture dish</td>
			<td>Falcon</td>
			<td>353003</td>
			<td>S No: 20</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>96-well tissue culture plate</td>
			<td>Falcon</td>
			<td>353078</td>
			<td>S No: 21</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>6-well tissue culture plate</td>
			<td>Falcon</td>
			<td>353046</td>
			<td>S No: 22</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Dissecting scope&#160;</td>
			<td>Nikon</td>
			<td>SMZ745</td>
			<td>S No: 23</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Picking hood</td>
			<td>NuAire</td>
			<td>NU-301</td>
			<td>S No: 24</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>15&#160;ml Centrifuge Tube</td>
			<td>Greiner Bio-One</td>
			<td>188271</td>
			<td>S No: 25</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>50&#160;ml Centrifuge Tube</td>
			<td>Greiner Bio-One</td>
			<td>227261</td>
			<td>S No: 26</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Sodium pyruvate</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>11360</td>
			<td>S No: 28</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>&#946;-mercaptoethanol</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>M7522</td>
			<td>S No: 29</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Prigrow III medium</td>
			<td>ABM</td>
			<td>TM003</td>
			<td>S No: 31</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Countess&#8482; Cell Counter</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>C10227</td>
			<td>S No: 32</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Faxitron X-ray system</td>
			<td>Faxitron</td>
			<td>CellRad</td>
			<td>S No: 33</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Accutase</td>
			<td>Innovative cell Technologies</td>
			<td>AT-104</td>
			<td>S No: 34</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Collagenase</td>
			<td>Life Technologies</td>
			<td>17104019</td>
			<td>1mg/ml stock; S No: 35</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Dispase</td>
			<td>STEMCELL Technologies</td>
			<td>7923</td>
			<td>S No: 36</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>hESC qualified matrigel</td>
			<td>BD Biosciences</td>
			<td>354277</td>
			<td>To dilute, use cold DMEM/F-12; S No: 37</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>bFGF</td>
			<td>R &#38; D</td>
			<td>233-FB</td>
			<td>Stock 10 ug/ml; S No: 38</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Paraformaldehyde</td>
			<td>EMS</td>
			<td>15710</td>
			<td>4% stock in PBS; S No: 39</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>TRA-1-60</td>
			<td>Santa Cruz</td>
			<td>sc-21705</td>
			<td>1/100; S No: 40</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>NANOG</td>
			<td>ReproCELL</td>
			<td>RCAB0004P-F</td>
			<td>1/100; S No: 41</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Tween 20</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>P9416-100ML</td>
			<td>S No: 42</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Alkaline Phosphatase kit</td>
			<td>Stemgent</td>
			<td>00-0055</td>
			<td>S No: 43</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Cas9 protein</td>
			<td>PNA Bio</td>
			<td>CP01-50</td>
			<td>Thaw and aliquot; S No: 44</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Goat or donkey serum</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>D9663/G9023</td>
			<td>S No: 45</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Triton X-100</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>X100-100ML</td>
			<td>S No: 46</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>DAPI</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>D1306</td>
			<td>S No: 47</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Tris</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>9285-100ML</td>
			<td>S No: 48</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>NaCL</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>S7653-250G</td>
			<td>S No: 49</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>EDTA</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>BP2482-500</td>
			<td>S No: 50</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>T4 DNA ligase</td>
			<td>NEB</td>
			<td>M0202T</td>
			<td>S No: 51</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Mega Shortscript T7 kit</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>AM1354</td>
			<td>S No: 52</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Mega Clear kit</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>AM1908</td>
			<td>S No: 53</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>SMC4</td>
			<td>BD Biosciences</td>
			<td>354357</td>
			<td>S No: 54</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Fibronectin</td>
			<td>STEMCELL Technologies</td>
			<td>7159</td>
			<td>S No: 55</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>CloneJET cloning kit</td>
			<td>Thermo Scientific</td>
			<td>K1232</td>
			<td>S No: 56</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Fragment analyzerTM</td>
			<td>Advanced Analytical</td>
			<td></td>
			<td>S No: 57</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>mTeSR1 medium kit</td>
			<td>STEMCELL Technologies</td>
			<td>5850</td>
			<td>Warm to room temperature; S No: 58</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Freezing medium mFreSR&#8482;</td>
			<td>STEMCELL Technologies</td>
			<td>5855</td>
			<td>S No: 59</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Freezing medium CryoStor&#174;</td>
			<td>STEMCELL Technologies</td>
			<td>7930</td>
			<td>S No: 60</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>MEFs</td>
			<td>Globalstem</td>
			<td>GSC-6301G</td>
			<td>S No: 61</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>L-glutamine</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>25030081</td>
			<td>S No: 62</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Human pancreatic cells</td>
			<td>ABM</td>
			<td>T0159</td>
			<td>S No: 63</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>STEMdiff&#8482; Neural Induction Medium</td>
			<td>Stemcell Technologies</td>
			<td>5835</td>
			<td>S No: 64</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>RPMI</td>
			<td>Thermofisher</td>
			<td>11875-093</td>
			<td>S No: 65</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>2% B27-insulin</td>
			<td>Thermofisher</td>
			<td>A1895601</td>
			<td>S No: 66</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>CHIR99021</td>
			<td>Stemcell Technologies</td>
			<td>72052</td>
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efficient generation and editing of feeder-free ipscs from human pancreatic cells using the crispr-cas9 system

Embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells can self-renew and differentiate into multiple cell types of the body. The pluripotent cells are thus coveted for research in regenerative medicine and are currently in clinical trials for eye diseases, diabetes, heart diseases, and other disorders. The potential to differentiate into specialized cell types coupled with the recent advances in genome editing technologies including the CRISPR/Cas system have provided additional opportunities for tailoring the genome of iPSC for varied applications including disease modeling, gene therapy, and biasing pathways of differentiation, to name a few. Among the available editing technologies, the CRISPR/Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes has emerged as a tool of choice for site-specific editing of the eukaryotic genome. The CRISPRs are easily accessible, inexpensive, and highly efficient in engineering targeted edits. The system requires a Cas9 nuclease and a guide sequence (20-mer) specific to the genomic target abutting a 3-nucleotide &#34;NGG&#34; protospacer-adjacent-motif (PAM) for targeting Cas9 to the desired genomic locus, alongside a universal Cas9 binding tracer RNA (together called single guide RNA or sgRNA). Here we present a step-by-step protocol for efficient generation of feeder-independent and footprint-free iPSC and describe methodologies for genome editing of iPSC using the Cas9 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes. The genome editing protocol is effective and can be easily multiplexed by pre-complexing sgRNAs for more than one target with the Cas9 protein and simultaneously delivering into the cells. Finally, we describe a simplified approach for identification and characterization of iPSCs with desired edits. Taken together, the outlined strategies are expected to streamline generation and editing of iPSC for manifold applications.

In this publication, we have followed a simple but efficient protocol for the generation of iPSC from human pancreatic cells using integration or footprint-free Sendai virus vectors. Figure 1A shows a schematic representation of this reprogramming protocol. The human pancreatic cells were purchased commercially, cultured in Prigrow III medium and transduced with Sendai virus as explained above. Transduced spindle shaped pancreatic cells did not show any morph...

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Efficient Generation and Editing of Feeder-free IPSCs from Human Pancreatic Cells Using the CRISPR-Cas9 System

This protocol describes in detail the generation of footprint-free induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from human pancreatic cells in feeder-free conditions, followed by editing using CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoproteins and characterization of the modified single-cell clones.

Embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells can self-renew and differentiate into multiple cell types of the body. The pluripotent cells are thus coveted ...

The overall goal of this procedure is to generate footprint-free induced pluripotent stem cells or IPSCs from human pancreatic cells in feeder-free conditions, then to edit the cells using CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins and finally to characterize the modified single cell clones. This method can help answer key questions in the human stem cell genome editing field such as generation of footprint-free IPSCs and editing with CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins. The main advantage of this technique is that clonal lines of edited IPSCs can be generated with high reliability and there is no evidence of mosaicism.After coating a six well plate with cold collagen, plate early passage human primary pancreatic cells in Prigrow III medium on day 2 to achieve approximately 2.5 x 10 to the 5 cells or at least 60%confluency per well on the day of transduction or day zero. On the day of transduction after harvesting and counting the cells according to the text protocol, thaw on ice one set of Sendai vector tubes and carefully add the calculated volumes of each tube to 1 mL of prewarmed Prigrow III medium. Gently pipette to mix the solution.Aspirate the Prigrow III from the cells and slowly add the reprogramming virus mixture to the wells. Then incubate the cells in a 37 degree Celsius incubator overnight. Twenty-four hours after transduction, carefully discard the virus mixture on the cells and replace it with fresh Prigrow III medium.On day six, add 1 mL of cell detachment solution to the cells and incubate them for 10 minutes. Then, using Prigrow III with rock inhibitor, plate all the cells on dishes of MEFs prepared the day before. Incubate the cells at 37 degrees Celsius overnight.Observe the plates regularly for the emergence of cell clumps or colonies indicative of reprogrammed cells which will form clonal aggregates with a cobblestone morphology and a big nucleus and nucleoli. Mark the probable IPSC colonies and regularly check them for growth. Almost four weeks following transduction after preparing 24 well MEF plates, prepare matrix membrane by aliquoting it based on the dilution factor on the certificate of analysis.Pick 24-48 colonies and transfer them onto matrix membrane coated 24 well plates with mTeSR1. Incubate the plates for 24 hours and change the medium every day. Refer to the text protocol for additional details.Add 500 mcL of dispase to detach the robust colonies plated on the matrix membrane. After incubating the cells for 20 minutes, plate them again on matrix membrane coated 12 well plates. Expand and characterize the clones using alkaline phosphatase staining, immuno staining and FACS analysis according to the text protocol.To transfect HIPSCs after synthesizing SGRNAs according to the text protocol, prepare nucleofaction master mix for each sample by combining 0.5 mcg of Cas9 protein and 0.5 mcg of each SGRNA in a 22 mcL reaction volume. After aspirating the medium containing rock inhibitor, use 2 mL of RTPBS to wash each well of ISPCs. Then aspirate the PBS and add 1 mL of cell detachment solution.Incubate the plate at 37 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Resuspend the cells in 3 mL of mTeSR1 medium and gently pipette up and down to generate a single cell suspension. Transfer the dissociated cells to a 15 mL centrifuge tube containing 5 mL of mTeSR1 medium.To the nucleofection master mix, add 16.4 mcL of P3 primary cell supplement and 3.6 mcL of supplement one from the Nucleofector kit. After counting and spinning the cells, resuspend each unit of 0.5 x 10 to the 6th cells in 22 mcL of the previously prepared transfection master mix. Quickly transfer the cells into the central chamber of one well of a Nucleocuvette strip.Then, place the strip into a Nucleofector device and nucleofect the cells using program CB150. Following nucleofection, quickly add 80 mcL of prewarmed mTeSR1 medium containing 10 micromolar rock inhibitor to each well of the nucleofected cells. Gently mix by pipetting up and down.Gently transfer the cells from the strip to wells of the matrix membrane precoated 12 well plate containing mTeSR1 medium with rock inhibitor. On the second day of incubation after preparing MEF plates, replace the medium on the HIPSCs from mTeSR1 to mTeSR1 supplemented with 1XSMC4 for at least two hours before single cell sorting. Aspirate the medium from HIPSCs and use PBS to gently wash the cells.Then add 500 mcL of cell detachment solution into each well and incubate the cells at 37 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Generate a single cell suspension by adding 1 mL of mTeSR1 to each well and gently pipette up and down several times. Sort single cells into individual wells of a previously prepared 96 well plate.Four days after sorting, colony formation should be apparent. At this point, replace the culture medium with HESC medium supplemented with 1X SMC4. After extracting and expanding the target DNA according the text protocol, use a fragment analyzer kit to run the PCR amplified target genomic region of all clones through the gel dye mix per the manufacturer's instructions.Confirm pluripotent IPSC clones according to the text protocol. Before Sendai virus transduction, pancreatic cells show typical spindle-like morphology. Small tight colonies appear on MEFs by day 12 resembling human pluripotent cell colonies.Normally, the fully reprogrammed human IPSC colonies have very clear boundaries and can be picked up by days 23 to 30. A dissociated colony at day 23 is shown here. Presented here is a typical phase contrast image of an IPSC colony after picking and culture in feeder-free conditions after Sendai virus reprogramming of pancreatic cells.Alkaline phosphatase stained red IPSC colonies are on the right. IPSCs were confirmed by immuno staining for the pluripotency markers OCT4 and NANOG as seen in these panels. In this experiment, IPSCs were stained with cell surface markers and FACS analysis was carried out on a single cell suspension.The green peak represents pancreatic IPSCs, and the purple peak contains IPSC negative cells. While attempting this procedure, it is important to remember to maintain aseptic or sterile conditions for cell sorting and cell culture. Following this procedure, other methods like gene targeting in IPSCs and ESCs can be performed, and additional questions can be answered by performing precise genetic modifications.After watching this video, you should have a good understanding of how to reliably generate footprint-free and feeder-free IPSCs and perform genome editing biallelically.

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