Rita Perlingeiro, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division

E-MAIL: [email protected]

Research Interests:

Our laboratory has a long-term interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling lineage-specific differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (i.e. embryonic and adult reprogrammed stem cells), and applying this information to efficiently generate tissue-specific stem/progenitor cells endowed with in vivo regenerative potential. Our ultimate goal is to develop safe strategies to enable their future therapeutic application.

Selected Publications:

  • Ortiz-Cordero C, Bincoletto C, Dhoke NR, Selvaraj S, Magli A, Zhou H, Kim DH, Bang AG, Perlingeiro RCR. Defective autophagy and increased apoptosis contribute toward the pathogenesis of FKRP-associated muscular dystrophies. Stem Cell Reports. 2021 Sep 30:S2213-6711(21)00486-0.
  • Chow LS, Bosnakovski D, Mashek DG, Kyba M, Perlingeiro RCR, Magli A. Chromatin accessibility profiling identifies evolutionary conserved loci in activated human satellite cells. Stem Cell Res. 2021 Aug;55:102496.
  • Boyer O, Butler-Browne G, Chinoy H, Cossu G, Galli F, Lilleker JB, Magli A, Mouly V, Perlingeiro RCR, Previtali SC, Sampaolesi M, Smeets H, Schoewel-Wolf V, Spuler S, Torrente Y, Van Tienen F; Study Group. Myogenic cell transplantation in genetic and acquired diseases of skeletal muscle. Front Genet. 2021 Aug 2;12:702547.
  • Dhoke NR, Kim H, Selvaraj S, Azzag K, Zhou H, Oliveira NAJ, Tungtur S, Ortiz-Cordero C, Kiley J, Lu QL, Bang AG, Perlingeiro RCR. A universal gene correction approach for FKRP-associated dystroglycanopathies to enable autologous cell therapy. Cell Rep. 2021 Jul 13;36(2):109360.
  • Ortiz-Cordero C, Magli A, Dhoke NR, Kuebler T, Selvaraj S, Oliveira NA, Zhou H, Sham YY, Bang AG, Perlingeiro RC. NAD+ enhances ribitol and ribose rescue of α-dystroglycan functional glycosylation in human FKRP-mutant myotubes. Elife. 2021 Jan 29;10:e65443.
  • Kim H, Selvaraj S, Kiley J, Azzag K, Garay BI, Perlingeiro RCR. Genomic safe harbor expression of PAX7 for the generation of engraftable myogenic progenitors. Stem Cell Reports. 2021 Jan 12;16(1):10-19.
  • Incitti T, Magli A, Jenkins A, Lin K, Yamamoto A, Perlingeiro RCR. Pluripotent stem cell-derived skeletal muscle fibers preferentially express myosin heavy-chain isoforms associated with slow and oxidative muscles. Skelet Muscle. 2020 Jun 3;10(1):17.
  • Selvaraj S, Mondragon-Gonzalez R, Xu B, Magli A, Kim H, Lainé J, Kiley J, Mckee H, Rinaldi F, Aho J, Tabti N, Shen W, Perlingeiro RC. Screening identifies small molecules that enhance the maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived myotubes. Elife. 2019 Nov 11;8. pii: e47970.
  • Selvaraj S, Dhoke NR, Kiley J, Mateos-Aierdi AJ, Tungtur S, Mondragon-Gonzalez R, Killeen G, Oliveira VKP, López de Munain A, Perlingeiro RCR. Gene correction of LGMD2A patient-specific iPSCs for the development of targeted autologous cell therapy. Mol Ther. 2019 Dec 4;27(12):2147-2157.
  • Selvaraj S, Kyba M, Perlingeiro RCR. Pluripotent stem cell-based therapeutics for muscular dystrophies. Trends Mol Med. 2019 Sep;25(9):803-816.
  • Mondragon-Gonzalez R, Azzag K, Selvaraj S, Yamamoto A, Perlingeiro RCR. Transplantation studies reveal internuclear transfer of toxic RNA in engrafted muscles of myotonic dystrophy 1 mice. EBioMedicine. 2019 Sep;47:553-562.
  • Magli A, Baik J, Pota P, Cordero CO, Kwak IY, Garry DJ, Love PE, Dynlacht BD, Perlingeiro RCR. Pax3 cooperates with Ldb1 to direct local chromosome architecture during myogenic lineage specification. Nat Commun. 2019 May 24;10(1):2316.
  • Magli A, Baik J, Mills LJ, Kwak IY, Dillon BS, Mondragon Gonzalez R, Stafford DA, Swanson SA, Stewart R, Thomson JA, Garry DJ, Dynlacht BD, Perlingeiro RCR. Time-dependent Pax3-mediated chromatin remodeling and cooperation with Six4 and Tead2 specify the skeletal myogenic lineage in developing mesoderm. PLoS Biol. 2019 Feb 26;17(2):e3000153.
  • Incitti T, Magli A, Darabi R, Yuan C, Lin K, Arpke RW, Azzag K, Yamamoto A, Stewart R, Thomson JA, Kyba M, Perlingeiro RCR. Pluripotent stem cell-derived myogenic progenitors remodel their molecular signature upon in vivo engraftment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Mar 5;116(10):4346-4351.
  • Chan SS, Arpke RW, Filareto A, Xie N, Pappas MP, Penaloza JS, Perlingeiro RCR, Kyba M. Skeletal muscle stem cells from PSC-derived teratomas have functional regenerative capacity. Cell Stem Cell. 2018;23(1):74-85.e6.
  • Mondragon-Gonzalez R, Perlingeiro RCR. Recapitulating muscle disease phenotypes with myotonic dystrophy 1 induced pluripotent stem cells: a tool for disease modeling and drug discovery. Dis Model Mech. 2018 Jul 18;11(7). pii: dmm034728.
  • Kim, J, Oliveira VKP, Yamamoto A, Perlingeiro RCR. Generation of skeletal myogenic progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells using non-viral delivery of minicircle DNA. Stem Cell Res. 2017;23:87-94.
  • Magli A, Incitti T, Kiley J, Swanson SA, Darabi R, Rinaldi F, Selvaraj S, Yamamoto A, Tolar J, Yuan C, Stewart R, Thomson JA, Perlingeiro RCR. PAX7 targets, CD54, integrin α9β1, and SDC2, allow isolation of human ESC/iPSC-derived myogenic progenitors. Cell Rep. 2017;19:2867-2877.
  • Kim J, Magli A, Chan SSK, Oliveira VKP, Wu J, Darabi R, Kyba M, Perlingeiro RCR. Expansion and purification are critical for the therapeutic application of pluripotent stem cell-derived myogenic progrenitors. Stem Cell Reports 2017;9:12-22.
  • Dourado KC, Baik J, Oliveira VKP, Beltrame M, Yamamoto A, Theuer, CP, Figueiredo CAV, Verneris M, Perlingeiro RCR. Endoglin: a novel target for therapeutic intervention in acute leukemias revealed in xenograft mouse models. Blood. 2017;129:2526-2536.
  • Baik J, Magli A, Tahara N, Swanson SA, Borges L, Koyano-Nakagawa N, Stewart R, Garry DG, Kawakami Y, Thomson JA, Perlingeiro RCR. Endoglin integrates BMP and Wnt signaling to induce hematopoiesis through JDP2. Nat Commun. 2016;7:13101.
  • Carrió E, Magli A, Muñoz M, Peinado MA, Perlingeiro RCR, Suelves M Muscle cell identity requires Pax7-mediated lineage-specific DNA demethylation. BMC Biol. 2016;14:30.
  • Filareto A, Rinaldi F, Arpke RW, Darabi R, Belanto JJ, Toso EA, Miller AZ, Ervasti JM, McIvor RS, Kyba M, Perlingeiro RCR. Pax3-induced expansion enables the genetic correction of dystrophic satellite cells. Skelet Muscle 2015;5:36.
  • McCullagh KJA, Perlingeiro RCR. Coaxing stem cells for skeletal muscle repair. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2015;84:198-207.
  • Skoglund G, Laine J, Darabi R, Fournier E, Perlingeiro RCR, Tabti N. Physiological and ultrastructural features of human induced pluripotent and embryonic stem cell-derived skeletal myocytes in vitro. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2014;111:8275-8280.
  • Magli A, Schnettler E, Swanson SA, Borges L, Hoffman K, Stewart R, Thomson JA, Perlingeiro RCR. Pax3 and Tbx5 specify whether PDGFR?+ cells assume skeletal or cardiac muscle fate in differentiating ES cells. Stem Cells. 2014;32:2072-2083.

Current Graduate Students:

Bayardo Garay (Neuroscience, University of Minnesota).

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