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ESGCT XXV Anniversary Congress in Collaboration with the German Society for Gene Therapy October 17–20, 2017 Berlin, Germany Downloaded by 86.2.119.197 from online.liebertpub.com at 12/11/17. For personal use only. HUMAN GENE THERAPY 28:A2–A125 (2017) ª Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/hum.2017.29055.abstracts Selected Oral Presentations OR01 Institute, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia. 3: Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Generation of three-dimensional human artificial skeletal Artificial Organs (LEBAO), Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, muscle tissue from iPS cells enables complex disease Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery; Hannover Medical modelling for muscular dystrophy School, D-30625 Hannover, Germany 4: Department of Human S M Maffioletti1 S Sarcar1 A Henderson1 I Mannhardt2 DNA Variability, GENYO, PTS Granada, 18016 Granada, L Pinton1 L A Moyle1 H Steele-Stallard1 O Cappellari4 Spain. 5: Max Delbru¨ck Center for Molecular Medicine, K E Wells4 M Ragazzi1 W Wang1 P Zammit3 D J Wells4 D-13125 Berlin, Germany 6: Fachbereich Mathematik, T Eschenhagen2 F S Tedesco1 Naturwissenschaften & Informatik, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, D-35390 Gießen, Germany. 1: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, WC1E 6DE London, UK 2: Department of Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) hold substan- Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical tial promise for regenerative medicine. However, reprogramming Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), 20246 Hamburg and DZHK and subsequent hiPSC cultivation can result in genetic and epi- (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site genetic abnormalities, and mutations that can undermine their use Hamburg/Kiel/Lu¨beck, Germany 3: Randall Division of Cell and in regenerative medicine, because they compromise biosafety of Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London, SE1 1UL London, hiPSC-derived differentiated cells. Activation of endogenous UK 4: Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal mobile retrotransposons LINE-1 (Long Interspersed Element-1, Veterinary College, NW1 0TU London, UK L1), Alu and SVA can cause such mutations. In differentiated cells, L1 is suppressed by methylation of its CpG-rich promoter. Generating artificial human skeletal muscle would be instru- We show that reprogramming triggers transcription of L1 ele- mental for investigating skeletal muscle pathology and therapy. ments via demethylation and that reprogramming factors further However, current bioengineering platforms are challenged by the upregulate L1 promoter activity. By applying retrotransposon limited expansion potential and differentiation ability of tissue- capture-sequencing to 8 hiPSC lines and their parental cells, we derived myogenic cells. Here, we describe the generation of three- found that L1 transcriptional activation causes new L1-mediated dimensional artificial skeletal muscle tissue from human embryonic genomic insertions: We identified numerous L1, Alu and SVA de and induced pluripotent stem cells, including cells from patients novo retrotransposition events that occurred during reprogram- with Duchenne, limb-girdle and congenital muscular dystrophies. ming and hiPSC cultivation. We estimated *1L1denovoin- Skeletal myogenic differentiation of pluripotent cells was induced sertion per hiPSC, constituting a mutagenic load per cell as within hydrogels under tension to provide alignment. Artificial represented by exogenously applied integrating gene therapy muscles recapitulated characteristics of human skeletal muscle tis- vectors. *50% of all new retrotransposition events occurred in sue and could be implanted into immunodeficient mice. Im- transcribed protein-coding genes, including genes involved in portantly, they enabled in vitro modelling of pathological hallmarks oncogenesis, development or signal transduction. We demonstrate of some forms of muscular dystrophy with higher fidelity than interference of new L1 insertions with host gene expression in standard bi-dimensional cultures. Finally, we show generation of hiPSCs. Consistently, analysis of 1800 marked L1 insertions re- complex multicellular constructs, all human iPS cell-derived, con- Downloaded by 86.2.119.197 from online.liebertpub.com at 12/11/17. For personal use only. sulting from mobilization of genetically engineered L1 reporter taining isogenic cell types present in normal skeletal muscle, such elements during hiPSC cultivation, confirmed that *50% of all as vascular endothelial cells and pericytes. These results lay the insertions accumulate in host genes. L1 de novo insertions were foundation for a human skeletal muscle organoid-like platform for also enriched at active transcriptional start sites where they might regenerative medicine, disease modelling and therapy development. affect host gene expression. Our findings imply consequences for the biological safety of hiPSC-derived cell therapies. OR02 Reprogramming triggers mobilisation of endogenous OR03 retrotransposons in human induced pluripotent stem cells with genotoxic effects on host gene expression Dynamic remodelling of neural cellular and extracellular signatures depicted in 3D in vitro differentiation S Jung-Klawitter1 N V Fuchs15K R Upton2 A Fro¨mmrich3 of human iPSC-derived NSC C Miskey1 M Mun˜oz-Lopez4 R Shukla2 J Wang5 A Sebe1 S Merkert3 A Bock1 U Held1 M Menzel6 A Gogol-Do¨ring6 D Sima˜o1 A P Terrasso1 M M Silva1 F Arez1 M F Sousa1 A Haase3 Z Izsva´k5 Z Ivics1 U Martin3 J Garcia-Perez4 N Raimundo2 P Gomes-Alves1 E J Kremer3 P M Alves1 C Brito1 G J Faulkner2 G G Schumann1 1: iBET, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnolo´gica, 1: Division of Medical Biotechnology, Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Oeiras, Portugal and Instituto de Tecnologia Quı´mica e D-63225 Langen, Germany. 2: Mater Medical Research Biolo´gica Anto´nio Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, A2 SELECTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS A3 Portugal 2: Universita¨tsmedizin Go¨ttingen, Institut fu¨r photoreceptor genesis. Immunohistological examination of the Zellbiochemie, Go¨ttingen, Germany 3: Institut de Ge´ne´tique organoids at different culture time points revealed that the or- Mole´culaire de Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5535, Montpellier, ganoids recapitulate the different stages of retinogenesis and France and Universite´ de Montpellier, Montpellier, France confirmed the production of a large number of photorecep- tors. This cell line can now serve to study human photoreceptor Brain microenvironment plays an important role in devel- development and pathologies as well as to produce a large opment and function. Disruption of its homeostasis is often photoreceptor number for drug screening and transplantation related to pathological conditions, as the lysosomal storage studies. disease mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (MPS VII), caused by deficient b-glucuronidase activity. We hypothesized that 3D differentiation of human neural stem cells (hNSC) neu- rospheres in perfusion stirred-tank bioreactors could sustain microenvironment remodeling, recapitulating key cell-ECM interactions. Differentiation of hNSC derived from induced OR05 pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC-NSC), both from healthy do- AAV-mediated CYP46A1 gene therapy nors and a MPS VII patient, were shown to recapitulate for Huntington’s disease neurogenic developmental pathways, generating tissue-like N Cartier1 S Alves2 W Christaller3 E Subashi1 R Kacher4 3D structures with neuronal, astroglial and oligodendroglial 5 5 3 4 4 cells. Changes in neural microenvironment during differen- A Lamazie`re G Despres F Saudou J Caboche S Betuing tiation, namely at cell membrane and ECM composition, were 1: INSERM/CEA UMR1169, MIRCEN CEA and Universite’ addressed using quantitative transcriptomic (NGS) and pro- Paris-Sud, Universite’ Paris Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France teomic data (SWATH-MS). Data revealed a significant enrich- 2: BrainVectis Therapeutics, 18 route du Panorama 92 265 ment in structural proteoglycans, such as neurocan, versican, Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France 3: INSERM U1216 and brevican and tenascin C, along with downregulation of basement University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, membrane constituents (e.g., laminins, collagens and fibrillins). GIN, 38000 Grenoble, France 4: Neuronal Signaling and Gene In MPS VII cells, important disease hallmarks were recapitu- Regulation, Neurosciences Paris Seine, Institute of Biology lated, as the accumulation of glycosaminoglycans. Glial differ- Paris-Seine, Sorbonne Universite’s, UPMC Universite’ Pierre et entiation was increased and alterations in neuronal activity and Marie Curie-Paris 6, INSERM/UMR-S 1130, CNRS/UMR 8246, connectivity were observed. In summary, we demonstrated that 75005 Paris, France 5: Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, neural cellular and extracellular developmental features are re- INSERM ERL 1157, CNRS UMR 7203 LBM, Sorbonne capitulated in hiPSC-NSC-derived neural microtissues. These Universite’s- Universite’ Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, CHU can be valuable in vitro models to address molecular defects Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France associated with neurological disorders that affect the microen- vironment homeostasis, as MPS VII. Brain cholesterol homeostasis defects in the adult brain are linked to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Niemann-Pick C, Alzheimer and Huntington’s diseases (HD). In HD, cho- lesterol homeostasis defects involve a general perturbation in OR04 the expression of cholesterol biosynthesis enzymes. 24S- hydroxycholesterol (24OH-Chol), the catabolite