Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

ERRγ enhances cardiac maturation with T-tubule formation in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes

  • Kenji Miki,
  • Kohei Deguchi,
  • Misato Nakanishi-Koakutsu,
  • Antonio Lucena-Cacace,
  • Shigeru Kondo,
  • Yuya Fujiwara,
  • Takeshi Hatani,
  • Masako Sasaki,
  • Yuki Naka,
  • Chikako Okubo,
  • Megumi Narita,
  • Ikue Takei,
  • Stephanie C. Napier,
  • Tsukasa Sugo,
  • Sachiko Imaichi,
  • Taku Monjo,
  • Tatsuya Ando,
  • Norihisa Tamura,
  • Kenichi Imahashi,
  • Tomoyuki Nishimoto,
  • Yoshinori Yoshida

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23816-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Cardiomyocytes (CMs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) suffer from limited maturation. Here the authors identify ERRγ agonist as a factor that enhances cardiac morphological, metabolic, contractile and electrical maturation of hiPSC-derived CMs with T-tubule formation.