Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Identification of cell surface markers and establishment of monolayer differentiation to retinal pigment epithelial cells

  • Alvaro Plaza Reyes,
  • Sandra Petrus-Reurer,
  • Sara Padrell Sánchez,
  • Pankaj Kumar,
  • Iyadh Douagi,
  • Hammurabi Bartuma,
  • Monica Aronsson,
  • Sofie Westman,
  • Emma Lardner,
  • Helder André,
  • Anna Falk,
  • Emeline F. Nandrot,
  • Anders Kvanta,
  • Fredrik Lanner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15326-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Whilst pigmentation has been used to identify retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, surface markers for these cells remain unclear. Here, the authors define surface markers for the RPE including CD140b, which help produce hPSC-derived RPE cells at a large scale following a robust, direct and scalable monolayer differentiation protocol.