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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Cancer Cells in Cancer Disease Modeling

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Cell Biology and Translational Medicine, Volume 4

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In 2006, Noble Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka discovered that a set of transcription factors can reprogram terminally differentiated somatic cells to a pluripotent stem cell state. Since then, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have come into the public spotlight. Amidst a growing field of promising clinical uses of iPSCs in recent years, cancer disease modeling has emerged as a particularly promising and rapidly translatable application of iPSCs. Technological advances in genome editing over the past few years have facilitated increasingly rapid progress in generation of iPSCs with clearly defined genetic backgrounds to complement existing patient-derived models. Improved protocols for differentiation of iPSCs, engineered iPSCs and embryonic stem cells (ESCs) now permit the study of disease biology in the majority of somatic cell types. Here, we highlight current efforts to create patient-derived iPSC disease models to study various cancer types. We review the advantages and current challenges of using iPSCs in cancer disease modeling.

Author contributed equally with all other contributors.Dandan Zhu and Celine Shuet Lin Kong

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Abbreviations

AML:

acute myeloid leukemia

APC:

adenomatous polyposis cell

CML:

chronic myeloid leukemia

COs:

colorectal organoids

ER:

estrogen receptor

ESCs:

embryonic stem cells

FAP:

familial adenomatous polyposis

HBOC:

hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

iPCCs:

induced pluripotent cancer cells

iPSCs:

induced pluripotent stem cells

JMML:

juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia

LFS:

Li-Fraumeni syndrome

LSC:

leukemic stem cells

MDS:

Myelodysplastic syndrome

MSCs:

mesenchymal stem cells

NS:

Noonan syndrome

PDAC:

pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

PR:

progesterone receptor

sgRNA:

single guide RNA

TALEN:

transcription activator-like effector nuclease

ZFN:

zinc finger nuclease

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D.-F.L. is the CPRIT scholar in Cancer Research and supported by NIH Pathway to Independence Award R00 CA181496 and CPRIT Award RR160019.

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Zhu, D., Kong, C.S.L., Gingold, J.A., Zhao, R., Lee, DF. (2018). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Cancer Cells in Cancer Disease Modeling. In: Turksen, K. (eds) Cell Biology and Translational Medicine, Volume 4. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology(), vol 1119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2018_257

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