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Table 1 Summary of various successes in cellular reprogramming through ectopic expression of specific transcription factors or miRNAs, via CRISPR-Cas9 approach or via chemical inhibition of epigenetic machinery

From: Epigenetic reprogramming of cell identity: lessons from development for regenerative medicine

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Starting cell

Reprogrammed cell

Factors used

References

1

Fibroblast

Neurons

Ascl1, Brn2 and Myt1l

Vierbuchen et al. 2010 [26]

2

Fibroblast

Cardiomyocytes

Gata4, Mef2c and Tbx5

Ieda et al. 2010 [40]

3

Fibroblast

Hepatocytes

HNF1α, Foxa3 and Gata4

Huang et al. 2011 [44]

4

Fibroblast

iPSCs

Oct4, Klf4, Sox2 and cMyc

Yamanaka et al. 2006 [14]

5

Fibroblast

Myogenic cells

MyoD

Ito et al. 2017 [119]

6

Fibroblast

Neuron

miR-9/9* and miR-124

Yoo et al. 2011 [63]

7

Non-myocytes

Induced cardiomyocyte

miR-1, miR-133, miR-208 and miR-499

Jayawardena et al. 2012 [59]

8

B and T-cells

Macrophages

C/EBPα

Xie et al. 2004 [45]

9

ESCs

Trophoectodermal cells

Cdx2

Strumpf et al. 2005 [120]

10

Acinar cells

Insulin producing B cells

MafA, Pdx1 and Ngn3

Xu et al. 2013 [48]

11

Astrocytes

Glutamatergic Neurons

NeuroD1

Guo et al. 2014 [121]

12

mESC

Neurons

NeuroD1

Pataskar et. al. 2016 [29]

13

Neural precursor cell

Astrocyte

NFIA, ATF3 and RunX2

Tiwari et. al. 2018 [33]

14

Fibroblast

Oligodendrocyte

SOX10, ZFP536, OLIG2

Yang et al. 2013 [36]

15

Brain Pericytes

Neurons

Ascl1 and Sox2

Karow et. al. 2018 [122]

16

Pluripotent stem cell

Adipocyte

CEBPb, PRDM16

Ahfeldt et al. 2012 [123]

17

Fibroblast

Osteoblast

OCT4, RUNX2, OSX, MYC

Yamamoto et al. 2015 [124]

18

Fibroblast

iPSCs

CRISPR-dCas9 activation-OSKM and Lin28

Weltner et al. 2018 [67]

19

Fibroblast

Myoblast

CRISPR-dCcas9 activation of Myod enhancer

Liu et al. 2016 [68]

20

Neural progenitor cell

Neuron

CRISPR-dCcas9 activation of Sox1 promoter

Baumann et al. 2019 [69]

21

Fibroblasts

Neurons

CRISPR-dCcas9 activation of Brn2, Ascl1, and Myt1l

Black et al. 2016 [70]