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. 2022 Aug 18;3(3):101560. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101560

Table 3.

Direct reprogramming approaches

Features Cell types
Cocktails Efficiency Reference
From To
GMT-based cocktail CF, TTF MYH6-GFP+ GMT ∼20% leda et al., 2010
microRNA CF, MEF Beating cells GMT, miR-133 7 -old more Muraoka et al. (2014)
HCF TNNT2+ GMT, MESP1, MYOCD, miR-133 23–27%
Chemical compound CF MYH6-GFP+ GMT ∼30% Mohamed et al. (2017)
HCF TNNT2-GCaMP5+ GMT, MYOCD, ESRRG, MESP1, ZFPM2 ∼12%
MEF, TTF Beating cells GMT or GHMT 100-fold Yamakawa et al. (2015)
TTF Beating cells GMT or GHMT 4-fold Muraoka et al. (2019)
Polycistronic puro selection CF Beating cells polycistronic MGT 10-fold Wang et al. (2015a)
Optimized GHMT-based cocktail CFs,TTFs MYH6-GFP+/TNNT2+ GHMT 5%–20% Song et al. (2012)
MEF Beating cells GHMT Akt1 50.0% Zhou et al. (2015)
CF, TTF ∼0.8%
MEF, CF, TTF MYH6-GFP+/TNNT2+ GHMT, Akt1, PHF7 > 20% Garry et al. (2021)
Beating cells ∼2-fold
HCF MYH6-GFP+/TNNT2+ GHMT, Myocd, PHF7 ∼ 3% Garry et al. (2021)
Chamber-specific subtype MEF, TTF Sarcomere+/HCN4-GFP+ GHMT 1% × ∼32% Nam et al. (2014)
Sarcomere+/HCN4-GFP/MYL2+ 1% × ∼22%
Sarcomere+/HCN4-GFP/NPPA+ 1% × ∼35%
MEF MYL7+/TNNI3+ Polycistronic M-G-T-H ∼26% Zhang et al. (2019a)(2021c)
MYL2+/TNNI3+ ∼16%
Sarcomere+, beating cells ∼5–6-fold
Human Fibroblasts H9F MYH6-mCherry+/TNNT2+ GMT, ESRRG, MESP1, MYOCD, ZFPM2 (7F) 13.0% ± 9.3% Fu et al. (2013)
HCF, HDF ACTN2+/TNNT2+ 1–4%
HFF, AHCF, AHDF TNNT2+ GHT, Myocd, miR-1, miR-133 (6F) ∼10–35% Nam et al. (2013)
HCF, HDF ACTN2+ or TNNT2+ GMT, Mesp1, Myocd (GMTMM) ∼ 5% Wada et al. (2013)
H9F, HCF TNNT2+ Polycistronic hMGT + miR-133 (MGT133) 40–60% Garbutt et al. (2020)
MicroRNA combo MEF, CF MYH6-CFP+ miR-1, miR-133, miR-208,
miR-499 (miRcombo)
∼13–27% Jayawardena et al. (2012)
Chemical only approach MEF, TTF ACTN2+ or MYH6+ small-molecule
combination CRFVPT
∼10–15% Fu et al. (2015)
HFF TNNT2+ cells 9 chemical compounds (9C) 6.6 ± 0.4% Cao et al. (2016)
HLF 5.5%

Acronyms: AHCF, adult human cardiac fibroblasts; AHDF, adult human dermal fibroblasts; CF, cardiac fibroblasts; H9F, H9-derived fibroblasts; HFF, neonatal human foreskin fibroblasts; HLF, human fetal lung fibroblasts; MEF, mouse embryonic fibroblasts; TTF, tail tip fibroblasts.