Organoid News Volume 1.05 | Aug 13 2020

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    Vol. 1.05 – 13 August, 2020
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    Serine Restriction Alters Sphingolipid Diversity to Constrain Tumor Growth

    Targeting the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier promoted alanine oxidation to mitigate deoxysphingolipid synthesis and improved spheroid growth.
    [Nature]

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    PAF1 Regulates Stem Cell Features of Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Independently of the PAF1 Complex, via Interactions with PHF5A and DDX3

    Researchers investigated mechanisms by which PAF1 maintained cancer stem cells and contributed to development of pancreatic tumors.
    [Gastroenterology]

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    Loss of NARS1 Impairs Progenitor Proliferation in Cortical Brain Organoids and Leads to Microcephaly

    Cortical brain organoid modeling showed reduced proliferation of radial glial cells, leading to smaller organoids characteristic of microcephaly.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Developmental Excitation-Inhibition Imbalance Underlying Psychoses Revealed by Single-Cell Analyses of Discordant Twins-Derived Cerebral Organoids

    Brain organoids derived from iPSCs of patients are a powerful avenue to investigate the pathophysiological processes. Scientists generated iPSC-derived cerebral organoids from monozygotic twins discordant for psychosis.
    [Molecular Psychiatry]

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    PIAS1 and TIF1γ Collaborate to Promote SnoN SUMOylation and Suppression of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

    Loss of function studies of PIAS1 and TIF1γ suggested that these E3 ligases act in an interdependent manner to suppress epithelial–mesenchymal transition of breast cell-derived tissue organoids. The authors unveiled a novel mechanism by which SUMO E3 ligases coordinate substrate SUMOylation with biological implications.
    [Cell Death & Differentiation]

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    BRAFV600E Drives Dedifferentiation in Small Intestinal and Colonic Organoids and Cooperates with Mutant p53 and Apc Loss in Transformation

    BRAFV600E induced a fetal-like dedifferentiation transcriptional program in colonic organoids, which resembled human BRAFV600E-driven colorectal cancer.
    [Oncogene]

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    Physioxia Enhances T Cell Development Ex Vivo from Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells

    Scientists report that physiologically relevant oxygen concentration, an important environmental thymic factor promotes differentiation of cord blood CD34+ cells into progenitor T cells in serum‐free and feeder‐free culture system. This effect was enhanced by a potent reducing and antioxidant agent, ascorbic acid.
    [Stem Cells]

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    Modulation of Glycosyltransferase ST6Gal-I in Gastric Cancer-Derived Organoids Disrupts Homeostatic Epithelial Cell Turnover

    To determine the functional impact of increased ST6Gal-I, researchers generated human gastric antral organoids from epithelial stem cells and differentiated epithelial monolayers from gastric organoids.
    [Journal of Biological Chemistry]

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    Origin of the Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Affects Their Differentiation into Dopaminergic Neurons

    During 3D organoid formation, the origin of iPSCs affected the levels of FOXA2 and LMX1A only in the first stages of neural differentiation, whereas in the 2D model, differences were detected at the levels of both early and late neural markers.
    [International Journal of Molecular Sciences]

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    Characterization of Adipose-Derived Stromal/Stem Cell Spheroids versus Single-Cell Suspension in Cell Survival and Arrest of Osteoarthritis Progression

    When adipose-derived stromal/stem cells (ASC) spheroid cultured in 3D were compared with ASCs cultured in a 2D monolayer, the cell survival and chondrogenic potential were enhanced while the apoptosis was reduced in ASC spheroids.
    [Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A]

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    REVIEWS

    Modeling Oncogenic Herpesvirus Infections in Humanized Mice

    The authors provide a brief introduction to the three most commonly utilized humanized mouse models for the study of gammaherpesvirus-driven pathogenesis.
    [Current Opinion in Virology]

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    In Vitro Modeling for Inherited Neurological Diseases Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: From 2D to Organoid

    Researchers focus on stem cell-based in vitro modeling of neurodevelopmental disorders, more specifically, the fundamentals and technical advancements in monolayer neuron and brain organoid cultures.
    [Archives of Pharmacal Research]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    CurePSP Partners with Rainwater to Support Pioneering Neurodegeneration Research

    CurePSP has awarded a $100,000 grant for a potentially breakthrough study that will employ 3D organoid models that have been shown to produce structures similar to those seen in the human brain to understand the effects of protein mutations that are associated with neurodegeneration.
    [CurePSP]

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