Generation of pluripotent stem cell line (IPWi001-A) and a corresponding CRISPR/Cas9 modified isogenic rescue control (IPWi001-A-1) from a patient with arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy harboring a KCNQ1 truncating mutation
KCNQ1 functions as a slow rectifying potassium channel during the repolarization of the cardiac action potential, with mutations causing long-QT syndrome 1 and arrhythmias. A genetic link between KCNQ1 mutations and arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy (AIC) has not been identified, and the underlying pathways remain elusive. We generated human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) from an AIC patient harboring the heterozygous truncating mutation p.W15* in KCNQ1 and corrected the mutation to wildtype using CRISPR/Cas9. The hiPSCs retained full pluripotency, genomic integrity, and differentiation ability. They were differentiated into hiPSC-cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CM), establishing a patient-specific model to explore potential genetic connections to AIC.
Authors
- Arne Zibat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0837-3050)
- Samuel Tobias Sossalla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8034-2673)
- Julia Unsöld
- Tillmann Schill
- Aylin Seedorf
- Gökhan Yiğit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2777-0198)
- Stefanie Hoppe
- Hanna Eberl
- Dirk Vollmann
- Meike Anders
- Katrin Streckfuss-Bömeke
- Sabine Rebs
- Bernd Wollnik
- Wiebke Maurer
Institutions
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (DE)
- Kerckhoff Klinik (DE)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Stem Cell Research
- Published
- 2026-02-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scr.2026.103921
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00