Generation of a Flattop-T2A-H2B-Venus x C-peptide-mCherry double reporter human iPSC line to monitor WNT/Planar cell polarity pathway activity

Abstract

Deriving functional β-cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) holds potential for cell replacement therapy, disease modeling, and drug testing in diabetes research. Wnt/Planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling is crucial for endocrine cell development and β-cell maturation in murine models and can be tracked by the expression of the tissue-specific effector gene Flattop. Here, we report the generation of a human fluorescent FLTP/CFAP126 (Flattop-T2A-H2B-Venus) and FLTP-Insulin (Flattop-T2A-H2B-Venus x C-peptide-mCherry) double reporter by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. These hiPSC reporter lines allow monitoring of WNT/PCP signaling during endocrine cell formation and studying its role in β-cells in a human model system.