Table 1 Characterization of the final product.

From: Pre-clinical study of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic progenitor cells for Parkinson’s disease

Test items

Test method

Criteria

Results (n = 25)

Differentiation/undifferentiation markers

Flow cytometry (day 12)

TRA-1–60

<1% (pre-sort)

0.0% (n = 24)

CORIN

>10% (pre-sort)

31.35 ± 12.72%

>90% (post-sort)

93.15 ± 2.127%

Morphology

Microscopic observation

Sphere shaped, no foreign body

Complied

Viability

Flow cytometry: Cell count

>90%

97.48 ± 1.608%

DAP markers

Flow cytometry: FOXA2/TUJ1

>80%

92.29 ± 3.964%

Undifferentiated markers

qPCR: POU5F1 and LIN28

<1% compared to undifferentiated cells

POU5F1: 0.08 ± 0.15%

LIN28: 0.14 ± 0.13%

Flow cytometry: OCT3/4/TRA-2–49/6E

<0.1%

<0.1%

Early neural markers

Flow cytometry: SOX1/PAX6

<0.1%

<0.1%

Sterility

JP17 (membrane filter)

Negative

Negative

Mycoplasma

JP17 (PCR)

Negative

Negative

Endotoxin

JP17 (LAL turbidimetry test)

≤1 EU mL−1

Not analyzed

Residual plasmids

qPCR: Transfected genes

Not detected

Not detected (n = 6)

CNV

SNP array

No abnormalities compared to undifferentiated iPSCs in:

(1) Shibata’s gene list (Supplementary Table 4)

(2) COSMIC census

(3) HGMD database

No abnormalities detected (n = 6)

Whole-genome sequencing

SNV/Indel

Whole-genome sequencing

Whole-exome sequencing

  1. LAL, limulus amebocyte lysate.