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.