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Collagenase Type IV (1mg/mL) STEMCELL Technologies 07909
Accutase STEMCELL Technologies 07920
α-MEM medium gibco/Thermo Fisher Scientific 12571-063
10% FBS Merck F4135
3-Isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) Sigma Aldrich/Biogems I7018/288542-100MG
commercial adipocyte differentiation media iXCells MD-0005
LipidSpot Fisher Scientific NC1669425
Hoescht 33342, trihydrochloride, trihydrate invitrogen/ThermoFisher Scientific 3570
UCP1 Abcam AB10983
Cultrex® Mouse Laminin I R&D Systems/biotechne 3400-010-02
Fibronectin Human, Natural Sigma-Aldrich F4759-5MG
poly-L-ornithine Sigma-Aldrich P2533
Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor R&D Systems 257-NT-050-CF
Neuregulin R&D Systems 396-HB-050/CF
S100β Abcam AB52642
SOX10 Gift of Vivian Lee
GFAP MP Biomedical 0869110
poly-L-lysine Merck P5899
coated glass coverslips Stellar Scientific 801007
MEM medium Merck M0450
MEM NEAA gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific 11140050
10% FBS Merck F4135
D-glycerophosphate Merck G9422
dexamethasone Merck D4902
L-ascorbic acid 2-phosphate Merck A8960
1% Pen-Strep gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific 15070-063
Paraformaldehyde (PFA) 16% Solution Electron Microscopy Sciences REF: 15710
Alcian Blue Merck TMS-010
96-well round bottom ULA plates Greiner 650185
aMEM Merck M0450
10 % FBS Merck F4135
TGF-b3 ThermoFisher 100-36E-100UG
dexamethasone (Merck, D4902) Merck D4902
L-Ascorbic acid Sigma-Aldrich A92902
poly-L-lysine Merck P5899
high glucose DMEM Merck D5671
sodium pyruvate ThermoFisher 11360070
10 % FBS Merck F4135
TGF-b1 ThermoFisher 100-21-100UG
PDGF-bb ThermoFisher 100-14B-100UG
1x PBS gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific 14180-144
B27 (50x) gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific 17504-044
L-glutamate Life Technologies 25030149
Glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (rH-GDNF) STEMCELL Technologies 78058.1
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (rH-BDNF) STEMCELL Technologies 78005.1
Nerve growth factor (rH-NGF) STEMCELL Technologies 78092.1
dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) TOCRIS-biotechne 14A/226424
retinoic acid (RA) MP Biomedicals, LLC 190269
10% Knockout serum replacement (KSR) gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific 10828010
LDN-193189 MedChemExpress HY-12071
A83-01 MedChemExpress HY-10432
CHIR99021 Biogems 2520691
SB431542 Selleckchem S1067
EDN3 Sigma-Aldrich E9137
Human SCF Peprotech 300-07-50UG
Essential 6 medium gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific A1516401
TrypLE Express Enzyme (1X), no phenol red gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific 12604013
MCDB201 Millipore Sigma M6770-1L
0.8% ITS+ (Insulin-Transferrin-Selenium (ITS-G) (100X)) gibco/ThermoFisher 41400045
SB431542 STEMCELL Technologies 72234
RO4929097 MedChemExpress HY-11102
SU5402 Cal Biochem 572630-500116
Retinoic Acid Sigma-Aldrich R2625
Bovine Albumin Fraction V MP Biomedicals 810033
recombinant human BMP4 R&D Systems/invitrogen 314-BP/PHC9534
PMA Sigma-Aldrich P1585
Phosphate Buffer Saline (PBS) pH 7.4 (1X) gibco/ThermoFisher Scientific 10010023
TritonX-100 The Dow Chemical Company 1002614890
SecureSeal Imaging Spacers Grace BIO-LABS 654004
ProLong Glass Antifade mounting media Invitrogen/ThermoFisher P36934
Clear Nail Polish Electron Microscopy Sciences 72180
MatTek glass bottom dishes MATTEK, A BICO COMPANY P35G-1.5-20-C
2-Mercaptoethanol BIO-RAD 1610710
NucleoSpin® RNA Isolation Kit Macherey-Nagel 740955.50
Multi Tissue Dissociation Kit 3 Miltenyi Biotec 130-110-204
70 μm MACS SmartStrainer Miltenyi Biotec 130-098-462
Chromium Single Cell 3 Library & Gel Bead Kit v3 10X Genomics
Illumina NextSeq 500 Platform
ANTIBODIES Source Identifier
FITC-p75 BioLegend 345104
Anti PMEL (Anti-melanoma gp100) Abcam ab787
Anti MITF GeneTex GTX00738
APC-cKIT Invitrogen/ThermoFisher Scientific 17117942
Human/Rat Osteocalcin Antibody R&D Systems MAB1419
Human Alkaline Phosphatase/ALPL Antibody R&D Systems MAB29091
Recombinant Anti-RUNX2 antibody Abcam ab192256
Anti-Collagen II antibody Abcam ab34712
Recombinant Anti-Aggrecan antibody [6-B-4] Abcam ab3778
Anti-Sox9 Antibody Merck AB5535
Anti-Actin, α-Smooth Muscle antibody, Mouse monoclonal Merck A5228
Anti-TAGLN/Transgelin antibody Abcam ab14106
Anti-smooth muscle Myosin heavy chain 11 antibody Abcam ab82541
Anti-Brn3a ab5945
Anti-Dbh Abcam ab209487
Anti-chromogranin b Abcam ab12242
Anti-Th Immunostar 22941
Anti-islet DSHB 39.4D5
Anti-Phox2b Santa Cruz sc376997
TAQMAN PROBE LIST
MITF TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00165156_m1
TYR TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00165976_m1
S100b TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00559329_m1
ISL1 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00158126_m1
DBH TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs01089840_m1
TH TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00165941_m1
PNMT TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs01557113_g1
FABP4 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs01086177_m1
POU4F1 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00366711_m1
BGLAP TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs01587814_g1
ALPL TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs01029144_m1
RUNX2 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs01047973_m1
SP7 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs01866874_s1
COL2A1 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00264051_m1
ACAN TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00153936_m1
SOX9 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00165814_m1
ACTA2 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00426835_g1
TAGLN TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00162558_m1
MYH11 TaqMan ThermoFisher Scientific #4331182, Hs00975796_m1
SOFTWARES
ImageJ(FIJI) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
R Studio Posit PBC
Zen Black Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC
GraphPad Prism Dotmatics
Python Python Software Foundation
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Inc.
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Inc.
Metascape.org Metascape Team - Zhou et al. Nature Commun. 2019 10(1):1523
Cell Ranger Single-Cell Software Suite 10X Genomics