Movie S11.

Live engineered hPSC-CM cultured in high calcium and imaged with fluorescence microscopy. Actin in myofibrils is labeled with Lifeact. Myofibrils are aligned and sarcomeres are organized in series but several sites of disruption are present in the region comprising the cell center of mass.

Contractility of single cardiomyocytes differentiated from pluripotent stem cells depends on physiological shape and substrate stiffness

Alexandre J. S. Ribeiro, Yen-Sin Ang, Ji-Dong Fu, Renee N. Rivas, Tamer M. A. Mohamed, Gadryn C. Higgs, Deepak Srivastava, and Beth L. Pruitt

PNAS. 2015. 112:12705-12710 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508073112