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Creating Cell-specific Computational Models of Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes Using Optical Experiments

Abstract Body: Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) have gained traction as a powerful model in cardiac disease and therapeutics research, since iPSCs are self-renewing and can be derived from healthy and diseased patients without invasive surgery. However, current iPSC-CM differentiation methods produce cardiomyocytes with immature, fetal-like electrophysiological phenotypes, and the variety of maturation protocols in the literature results in phenotypic differences between labs. Heterogeneity of iPSC donor genetic backgrounds contributes to additional phenotypic variability. Several mathematical models of iPSC-CM electrophysiology have been developed to help understand the ionic underpinnings of, and to simulate, various cell responses, but these models individually do not capture the phenotypic variability observed in iPSC-CMs. Here, we tackle these limitations by developing a computational pipeline to calibrate cell preparation-specific iPSC-CM electrophysiological parameters.
We used the genetic algorithm (GA), a heuristic parameter calibration method, to tune ion channel parameters in a mathematical model of iPSC-CM physiology. To systematically optimize an experimental protocol that generates sufficient data for parameter calibration, we created simulated datasets by applying various protocols to a population of in silico cells with known conductance variations, and we fitted to those datasets. We found that calibrating models to voltage and calcium transient data under 3 varied experimental conditions, including electrical pacing combined with ion channel blockade and changing buffer ion concentrations, improved model parameter estimates and model predictions of unseen channel block responses. This observation held regardless of whether the fitted data were normalized, suggesting that normalized fluorescence recordings, which are more accessible and higher throughput than patch clamp recordings, could sufficiently inform conductance parameters. Therefore, this computational pipeline can be applied to different iPSC-CM preparations to determine cell line-specific ion channel properties and understand the mechanisms behind variability in perturbation responses.
  • Yang, Janice  ( Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , Edison , New Jersey , United States )
  • Daily, Neil  ( InvivoSciences , Madison , Wisconsin , United States )
  • Pullinger, Taylor  ( Icahn Sch of Med at Mount Sinai , New York City , New York , United States )
  • Wakatsuki, Tetsuro  ( InvivoSciences , Madison , Wisconsin , United States )
  • Sobie, Eric  ( Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , Edison , New Jersey , United States )
  • Author Disclosures:
    Janice Yang: DO NOT have relevant financial relationships | Neil Daily: No Answer | Taylor Pullinger: DO NOT have relevant financial relationships | Tetsuro Wakatsuki: No Answer | Eric Sobie: No Answer
Meeting Info:

Basic Cardiovascular Sciences

2024

Chicago, Illinois

Session Info:

Poster Session and Reception 3

Wednesday, 07/24/2024 , 04:30PM - 07:00PM

Poster Session and Reception

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