Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

MicroRNAs promote skeletal muscle differentiation of mesodermal iPSC-derived progenitors

  • Giorgia Giacomazzi,
  • Bryan Holvoet,
  • Sander Trenson,
  • Ellen Caluwé,
  • Bojana Kravic,
  • Hanne Grosemans,
  • Álvaro Cortés-Calabuig,
  • Christophe M. Deroose,
  • Danny Huylebroeck,
  • Said Hashemolhosseini,
  • Stefan Janssens,
  • Elizabeth McNally,
  • Mattia Quattrocelli,
  • Maurilio Sampaolesi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01359-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Mesodermal iPSC-derived progenitors (MiPs) can regenerate both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Here, the authors show that a microRNA cocktail stimulates skeletal muscle differentiation and that human MiPs can engraft into striated muscle in mice.