Morgane Couchet, Hui Gao, Felix Klingelhuber, Jutta Jalkanen, Thais De Castro Barbosa, Muhmmad Omar-Hmeadi, Lucas Massier, Natalie Krahmer, Niklas Mejhert, Mikael Rydén
BACKGROUND: Mature adipocytes are notoriously difficult to study ex vivo and alternative cell culture systems have therefore been developed. One of the most common models are human adipose progenitor cells (hAPCs). Unfortunately, these display replicative senescence after prolonged culture conditions, which limits their use in mechanistic studies. METHODS: Herein, we knocked in human telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) into the AAVS1 locus of CD55+ hAPCs derived from abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue and characterized the cells before and after differentiation into adipocytes...
November 20, 2023: Adipocyte