Figure 1

Successful generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes. (A) Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) and osteoarthritis (OA) FLSs were cultured before reprogramming. RA and OA FLS was extracted from RA patients (n = 2) and OA patients (n = 2) and were cultured as previously documented. There were five passages of RA and OA FLSs. Synovium was gathered from the elbow and knee during synovectomy surgery. One sample (RA1) was from a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug-naïve patient and the other sample (RA2) from a biologics-refractory patient with persistent high disease activity. (B) Tomato fluorescence was shown shortly after virus infection. On the 6th day after the transduction of four-in-one viral vector on RA FLSs, colony-like spheres began to form. On the 18th day, colonies were picked and resuspended on Matrigel-coated culture dishes. (C) Tomato fluorescence was positively shown on four-in-one vector-transduced OA FLSs. On the 7th day after the transduction of four-in-one viral vector on OA FLS, colony-like spheres began to form. On the 11th day, colonies were picked and resuspended on Matrigel-coated culture dishes.