Neurogenin 2 (Ngn2)-induced human neurons (Zhang et al., 2013 (
link)) were prepared as described in
Figure 1A (Hong et al., 2018 (
link); Jin et al., 2018 (
link)). In brief, YZ1 iPSCs were maintained in medium containing
DMEM/F12,
Knockout Serum Replacement,
penicillin/streptomycin,
L-glutamine,
MEM-NEAA, and
β-mercaptoethanol (all from Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) with addition of 10 μg/mL basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF; Millipore-Sigma, Burlington, MA, USA). iPSCs were plated at a density of 95,000 cells/cm
2 for viral infection. Ultrapure lentiviral titers were obtained from Alstem (Richmond, CA, USA) and used at the following concentrations: Tet-O-Ngn2-puro: 0.1 μL/50,000 cells; Tet-O-FUW-EGFP: 0.05 μL/50,000 cells; FUdeltaGW-rtTA: 0.11 μL/50,000 cells. To induce Ngn-2 expression, doxycycline was added on iN day 1 at a concentration of 2 μg/mL. On iN day 2, puromycin was added at 20 μg/mL and was maintained in medium thereafter. On iN day 4, cells were plated on
Matrigel (Corning, NY)-coated 96-well plates (5,000 cells/well) and maintained in
Neurobasal media (Gibco, Carlsbad, CA, USA) containing Glutamax, 20% dextrose,
MEM-NEAA, B27 and 10 ng/mL BDNF, CNTF, GDNF (PeproTech, Rocky Hill, NY, USA). On iN day 21, cells were used to investigate effects of AD brain extracts +/− mAbs.
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