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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2021
Juntendo Educational Foundation, Tokyo, JP;
Juntendo Educational Foundation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for producing pancreatic endocrine cells, including introducing (B) or (D) below into cultured somatic cells to transdifferentiate into a population of pancreatic endocrine cells that include insulin-producing beta-cells: (B) a GLIS1 gene or one or more gene products thereof, a Neurogenin3 gene or one or more gene products thereof, and a Pdx1 gene or one or more gene products thereof; and (D) a GLIS1 gene or one or more gene products thereof, a Neurogenin3 gene or one or more gene products thereof, and a MafA gene or one or more gene products thereof. The GLIS1 gene includes the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 2. The population of pancreatic endocrine cells are produced without undergoing an iPS cell stage.