{"title":"Dedifferentiating myoblasts back into a satellite cell state in vitro","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02345-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02345-6","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite cells, the stem cells of skeletal muscle, are responsible for muscle development and regeneration. Although low in abundance, satellite cells can be isolated from muscle but cannot be propagated successfully in culture in numbers needed for therapeutic use. We developed a method to generate cells with satellite cell characteristics from skeletal muscle organoid cultures.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142166055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alan Costello, Alexander A. Peterson, David L. Lanster, Zhiyi Li, Gavriela D. Carver, Ahmed H. Badran
{"title":"Efficient genetic code expansion without host genome modifications","authors":"Alan Costello, Alexander A. Peterson, David L. Lanster, Zhiyi Li, Gavriela D. Carver, Ahmed H. Badran","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02385-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02385-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supplementing translation with noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) can yield protein sequences with new-to-nature functions but existing ncAA incorporation strategies suffer from low efficiency and context dependence. We uncover codon usage as a previously unrecognized contributor to efficient genetic code expansion using non-native codons. Relying only on conventional <i>Escherichia coli</i> strains with native ribosomes, we develop a plasmid-based codon compression strategy that minimizes context dependence and improves ncAA incorporation at quadruplet codons. We confirm that this strategy is compatible with all known genetic code expansion resources, which allowed us to identify 12 mutually orthogonal transfer RNA (tRNA)–synthetase pairs. Enabled by these findings, we evolved and optimized five tRNA–synthetase pairs to incorporate a broad repertoire of ncAAs at orthogonal quadruplet codons. Lastly, we extend these resources to an in vivo biosynthesis platform that can readily create >100 new-to-nature peptide macrocycles bearing up to three unique ncAAs. Our approach will accelerate innovations in multiplexed genetic code expansion and the discovery of chemically diverse biomolecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142166057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feodor D. Price, Mark N. Matyas, Andrew R. Gehrke, William Chen, Erica A. Wolin, Kristina M. Holton, Rebecca M. Gibbs, Alice Lee, Pooja S. Singu, Jeffrey S. Sakakeeny, James M. Poteracki, Kelsey Goune, Isabella T. Pfeiffer, Sarah A. Boswell, Peter K. Sorger, Mansi Srivastava, Kathleen Lindahl Pfaff, Emanuela Gussoni, Sean M. Buchanan, Lee L. Rubin
{"title":"Organoid culture promotes dedifferentiation of mouse myoblasts into stem cells capable of complete muscle regeneration","authors":"Feodor D. Price, Mark N. Matyas, Andrew R. Gehrke, William Chen, Erica A. Wolin, Kristina M. Holton, Rebecca M. Gibbs, Alice Lee, Pooja S. Singu, Jeffrey S. Sakakeeny, James M. Poteracki, Kelsey Goune, Isabella T. Pfeiffer, Sarah A. Boswell, Peter K. Sorger, Mansi Srivastava, Kathleen Lindahl Pfaff, Emanuela Gussoni, Sean M. Buchanan, Lee L. Rubin","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02344-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02344-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Experimental cell therapies for skeletal muscle conditions have shown little success, primarily because they use committed myogenic progenitors rather than true muscle stem cells, known as satellite cells. Here we present a method to generate in vitro-derived satellite cells (idSCs) from skeletal muscle tissue. When transplanted in small numbers into mouse muscle, mouse idSCs fuse into myofibers, repopulate the satellite cell niche, self-renew, support multiple rounds of muscle regeneration and improve force production on par with freshly isolated satellite cells in damaged skeletal muscle. We compared the epigenomic and transcriptional signatures between idSCs, myoblasts and satellite cells and used these signatures to identify core signaling pathways and genes that confer idSC functionality. Finally, from human muscle biopsies, we successfully generated satellite cell-like cells in vitro. After further development, idSCs may provide a scalable source of cells for the treatment of genetic muscle disorders, trauma-induced muscle damage and age-related muscle weakness.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142166056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recoded gene circuits for multiplexed genetic code expansion","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02387-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02387-w","url":null,"abstract":"Quadruplet codons allow multiplexing of non-canonical amino acids within single polypeptides in living cells. We show that including high-usage triplet codons after quadruplet codons can improve their decoding efficiency in genetic circuits, which allowed us to develop a system for the programmable biosynthesis of exotic macrocyclic peptides in cells.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phage genome engineering with retrons","authors":"Ilya Osterman, Rotem Sorek","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02392-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02392-z","url":null,"abstract":"A method using retron recombineering for phage genome modification may facilitate access to therapeutic phages.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142158831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chloe B. Fishman, Kate D. Crawford, Santi Bhattarai-Kline, Darshini Poola, Karen Zhang, Alejandro González-Delgado, Matías Rojas-Montero, Seth L. Shipman
{"title":"Continuous multiplexed phage genome editing using recombitrons","authors":"Chloe B. Fishman, Kate D. Crawford, Santi Bhattarai-Kline, Darshini Poola, Karen Zhang, Alejandro González-Delgado, Matías Rojas-Montero, Seth L. Shipman","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02370-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02370-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bacteriophage genome editing can enhance the efficacy of phages to eliminate pathogenic bacteria in patients and in the environment. However, current methods for editing phage genomes require laborious screening, counterselection or in vitro construction of modified genomes. Here, we present a scalable approach that uses modified bacterial retrons called recombitrons to generate recombineering donor DNA paired with single-stranded binding and annealing proteins for integration into phage genomes. This system can efficiently create genome modifications in multiple phages without the need for counterselection. The approach also supports larger insertions and deletions, which can be combined with simultaneous counterselection for >99% efficiency. Moreover, we show that the process is continuous, with more edits accumulating the longer the phage is cultured with the host, and multiplexable. We install up to five distinct mutations on a single lambda phage genome without counterselection in only a few hours of hands-on time and identify a residue-level epistatic interaction in the T7 gp17 tail fiber.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142138048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pandemic preparedness demands proper prioritization","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02406-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02406-w","url":null,"abstract":"We have learned many lessons from COVID-19, but how to get vaccines to low- and middle-income countries effectively isn’t one of them.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02406-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142138047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth S. Ng, Gulcan Sarila, Jacky Y. Li, Hasindu S. Edirisinghe, Ritika Saxena, Shicheng Sun, Freya F. Bruveris, Tanya Labonne, Nerida Sleebs, Alexander Maytum, Raymond Y. Yow, Chantelle Inguanti, Ali Motazedian, Vincenzo Calvanese, Sandra Capellera-Garcia, Feiyang Ma, Hieu T. Nim, Mirana Ramialison, Constanze Bonifer, Hanna K. A. Mikkola, Edouard G. Stanley, Andrew G. Elefanty
{"title":"Long-term engrafting multilineage hematopoietic cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells","authors":"Elizabeth S. Ng, Gulcan Sarila, Jacky Y. Li, Hasindu S. Edirisinghe, Ritika Saxena, Shicheng Sun, Freya F. Bruveris, Tanya Labonne, Nerida Sleebs, Alexander Maytum, Raymond Y. Yow, Chantelle Inguanti, Ali Motazedian, Vincenzo Calvanese, Sandra Capellera-Garcia, Feiyang Ma, Hieu T. Nim, Mirana Ramialison, Constanze Bonifer, Hanna K. A. Mikkola, Edouard G. Stanley, Andrew G. Elefanty","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02360-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02360-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) have important biomedical applications. We identified differentiation conditions that generate HSCs defined by robust long-term multilineage engraftment in immune-deficient NOD,B6.<i>Prkdc</i><sup><i>scid</i></sup> <i>Il2rg</i><sup><i>tm1Wjl/SzJ</i></sup> <i>Kit</i><sup><i>W41/W41</i></sup> mice. We guided differentiating iPS cells, as embryoid bodies in a defined culture medium supplemented with retinyl acetate, through <i>HOXA</i>-patterned mesoderm to hemogenic endothelium specified by bone morphogenetic protein 4 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Removal of VEGF facilitated an efficient endothelial-to-hematopoietic transition, evidenced by release into the culture medium of CD34<sup>+</sup> blood cells, which were cryopreserved. Intravenous transplantation of two million thawed CD34<sup>+</sup> cells differentiated from four independent iPS cell lines produced multilineage bone marrow engraftment in 25–50% of immune-deficient recipient mice. These functionally defined, multipotent CD34<sup>+</sup> hematopoietic cells, designated iPS cell-derived HSCs (iHSCs), produced levels of engraftment similar to those achieved following umbilical cord blood transplantation. Our study provides a step toward the goal of generating HSCs for clinical translation.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142118190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s pick: Atomic AI","authors":"Vivien Marx","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02375-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02375-0","url":null,"abstract":"Each year, Nature Biotechnology highlights companies that have received sizeable early-stage funding in the previous year. Atomic AI generates the structure data it needs for its AI model with the aim of RNA drug discovery.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02375-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142073408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}