- Roodgar, Morteza;
- Suchy, Fabian P;
- Nguyen, Lan H;
- Bajpai, Vivek K;
- Sinha, Rahul;
- Vilches-Moure, Jose G;
- Van Bortle, Kevin;
- Bhadury, Joydeep;
- Metwally, Ahmed;
- Jiang, Lihua;
- Jian, Ruiqi;
- Chiang, Rosaria;
- Oikonomopoulos, Angelos;
- Wu, Joseph C;
- Weissman, Irving L;
- Mankowski, Joseph L;
- Holmes, Susan;
- Loh, Kyle M;
- Nakauchi, Hiromitsu;
- VandeVoort, Catherine A;
- Snyder, Michael P
As our closest living relatives, non-human primates uniquely enable explorations of human health, disease, development, and evolution. Considerable effort has thus been devoted to generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from multiple non-human primate species. Here, we establish improved culture methods for chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) iPSCs. Such iPSCs spontaneously differentiate in conventional culture conditions, but can be readily propagated by inhibiting endogenous WNT signaling. As a unique functional test of these iPSCs, we injected them into the pre-implantation embryos of another non-human species, rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Ectopic expression of gene BCL2 enhances the survival and proliferation of chimpanzee and pig-tailed macaque iPSCs within the pre-implantation embryo, although the identity and long-term contribution of the transplanted cells warrants further investigation. In summary, we disclose transcriptomic and proteomic data, cell lines, and cell culture resources that may be broadly enabling for non-human primate iPSCs research.