Movie S12.

Live engineered hPSC-CM cultured in high calcium and imaged with fluorescence microscopy. Actin in myofibrils is labeled with Lifeact. The level of myofibril disruption is severe and actin is organized mainly around the membrane. Cell beating still occurs but with low cell contraction movements.

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