Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
Article Title: Recreating pathophysiology of CLN2 disease and demonstrating reversion by TPP1 gene therapy in hiPSC-derived retinal organoids and retina-on-chip
doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102244
Figure Lengend Snippet: AAV9.hCLN2 delivery to CLN2 ROs restores TPP1 expression (A) Schematic of AAV9.hCLN2 treatment of ROs. (B and C) UMAP of a single-cell RNA-seq dataset derived from ROs at day 192 ( n = 2 CTRLs, 2 CLN2 patient lines, and 2 AAV9.hCLN2-treated CLN2 patient lines) indicating individual cell types and (C) cell type composition. (D) UMAP of TPP1 transgene expression in AAV9.hCLN2-treated ROs as expression levels and expression density. (E) Heatmaps of TPP1 transgene expression levels (counts TPP1 /counts cell ∗10,000) and the percentage of TPP1 -expressing cells (in %). (F) Transduction efficiency of RO cell types. Top: cell types colored in shades of red proportionally to their TPP1 transgene expression. Ganglion cells (GCs, gray) were not found in day 192 ROs. Bottom: proportional area chart. HCs, horizontal cells; MGs, Müller glia; BCs, bipolar cells; ACs, amacrine cells. (G–I) TPP1 immunostaining and quantification of ROs treated with AAV9.hCLN2 at days 88, 123, and 260. AAV9.hCLN2 dose 1: 5 × 10 9 , dose 2: 5 × 10 10 , and dose 3: 1.67 × 10 11 gc/RO. Values were normalized to CTRL ROs (dashed line). Analyzed ROs: CLN2-1 n = 8–11; CLN2-2 n = 3–8; CTRL1 n = 9–14; CTRL2 n = 8–9. (J) Single confocal plane and quantification of TPP1 in day 123 + 35 ROs treated with AAV9.hCLN2. n = 5 ROs, 2 experiments. (K) TPP1 protein concentration in supernatants in day 123 + 35 ROs treated with AAV9.hCLN2, evaluated by electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunoassay. Analyzed ROs: CLN2-1 n = 21–22, 3 experiments; CLN2-2 n = 16–18, 5 experiments; CTRL1 n = 32 from 5 experiments; CTRL2 n = 25, 3 experiments. Values are mean ± SEM. Scale bars: (G–I) 100 μm, (J) 25 μm. Hoechst: blue. Tx: treatment. ∗ p < 0.05, ∗∗ p < 0.01, ∗∗∗ p < 0.001, ∗∗∗∗ p < 0.0001.
Article Snippet: After incubation, the plate was washed and any TPP1 protein captured by the immobilized antibody was detected by a polyclonal anti-TPP1 antibody (R&D Systems no. AF2237) labeled with SULFO-TAG.
Techniques: Expressing, RNA Sequencing, Derivative Assay, Transduction, Immunostaining, Protein Concentration, Electrochemiluminescence