Journal: Molecular Therapy. Methods & Clinical Development
Article Title: Serum factors create species-specific barriers to hepatic gene transfer by lipid nanoparticles in liver-humanized mice
doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2025.101470
Figure Lengend Snippet: Comparative histopathology and putative LNP receptor expression in chimeric NSG-PiZ and FRG mouse livers Livers from liver-humanized NSG-PiZ or FRG mice at 24- or 48-h post treatment with PBS, or LNP1–3 formulated with DasherGFP mRNA (A and B). Paraffin-embedded sections from representative livers were stained with H&E (A). Scale bar, 100 μm. Frozen sections from representative livers were stained with Oil red O and counterstained with hematoxylin (B). Scale bars, 1 mm (inset image) and 100 μm (main image). Dashed lines indicate approximate borders between human and mouse hepatocytes. H, human hepatocytes; M, mouse hepatocytes. snRNA-seq and scRNA-seq analysis of putative LNP receptor mRNA levels in hepatocytes of chimeric FRG and NSG-PiZ mice (C). (D) Detection of ALB , A PO E , LDLR , ASGR1 , and ASGR2 mRNA in human and mouse hepatocytes from NSG-PiZ and FRG mice. (E) The percentage of total reads per cell for ALB , APOE , LDLR , ASGR1 , and ASGR2 in human (H) or mouse (M) hepatocytes determined by scRNA-seq (NSG-PiZ) or snRNA-seq (FRG). For the scRNA-seq analysis, cells were pooled from four low engrafted chimeric NSG-PiZ mice prior to single-cell analysis. For the snRNA-seq analysis, reads were pooled from two highly engrafted chimeric FRG mice or two low engrafted chimeric FRG mice from a previously published dataset (Bioproject: PRJNA857105; GEO: GSM6319631 , GSM6319632 , GSM6319637 , GSM6319638 ; Cabanes-Creus et al. ). FRG reads were processed as previously described (Cabanes-Creus et al. ) and scRNA-seq reads were processed as described in the methods. (C) was created using Biorender.
Article Snippet: Serum from chimeric NSG-PiZ mice (HuAlb >1 mg/mL) was depleted of ApoE via immunoprecipitation using a rabbit anti-human ApoE polyclonal antibody (cat # VPA00665 , Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA) and protein G spin trap columns (Cat #28903134, Marlborough, MA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Techniques: Histopathology, Expressing, Staining, Single-cell Analysis