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Single cardiomyocytes were prepared from beating cell clusters by collagenase (see below).
Consequently, in siRNA-treated cells at day 12, OT-GKR treatment resulted in the production of very small clusters of weakly beating cells in only 4±0.2 of 24 wells whereas 23±0.2 control wells displayed beating cell colonies (Fig. 3I), p<0.05.
Extended C-terminal OT peptides stimulate EC P19 cell differentiation into beating cell colonies expressing CM markers.
Videoanalysis revealed that OT and OT-X were equally efficient in producing beating cell colonies by day 14 (Fig. 3F).
In cell cultures not exposed to inducers (NI) no beating cell colonies were found (Fig. 3A), although they sometimes displayed rare beating foci.
Figure 6 illustrates the expression of genes at the 6th day of EC P19 cell differentiation, when the first beating cell colonies were detected.
The inhibition of P19 cells differentiation involving OTA revealed that it did not reduce the number of OT-GKR-stimulated beating cell colonies to control levels.
Although at day 12, the beating cell colonies induced by endogenous OT-GKR were fewer (10/24±0.4) than those receiving OT-GKR from the medium (21/24±0.6, p<0.05), the OT-GKR-transfected cells displayed large clusters of beating activity (Fig. 4F).
Our study demonstrates that the four core chemicals for CiCM induction are CRFV, with RepSox (R) being the most important, since removing R failed to generate any beating cell.
This correlated with the appearance of the first spontaneous beating cell clusters in the EBs and H2B-mCh expression was restricted to these areas (Fig. 1b, Suppl. video 1).
