我们提出了一种通过诱导多能干细胞(iPSCs)从人外周血(PB)产生软骨形态谱的方案,使用无积分法,其包括胚状体(EB)形成,成纤维细胞扩增和软骨形成诱导。
在本研究中,我们使用外周血细胞(PBC)作为种子细胞,通过诱导多能干细胞(iPSCs)以无积分方法产生软骨细胞。在胚状体(EB)形成和成纤维细胞扩增后,在无血清和无异种病毒条件下诱导iPSC进行软骨形成分化21天。在软骨细胞诱导后,通过形态学,免疫组织化学和生物化学分析以及软骨形成分化标志物的定量实时PCR检测来评价细胞的表型。软骨细胞团块显示阳性阿an蓝和甲苯胺蓝染色。胶原蛋白II和X染色的免疫组化也是阳性的。硫酸化糖胺聚糖(sGAG)含量和软骨形成分化标记COLLAGEN 2 ( COL2 ), COLLAGEN 10 ( COL10 ), SOX9和AGGRECAN在chond中显着上调与hiPSCs和成纤维细胞相比,生殖球粒。这些结果表明,PBCs可用作种子细胞以产生用于软骨修复的iPSC,其是患者特异性且具有成本效益的。
软骨组织的自我修复和再生能力非常差。使用各种手术干预和生物处理来恢复软骨和关节功能,结果令人不满。干细胞技术的最新发展可能会改变整个软骨修复领域1 。已经研究了各种干细胞作为种子细胞,但人诱导的多能干细胞(hiPSC)似乎是最有希望的选择,因为它们可以提供许多类型的患者特异性细胞而不引起排斥反应2 。此外,他们可以克服成人细胞的增殖性有限,维持自我更新和多能力。此外,基因靶向可用于改变基因型以获得特定类型的软骨细胞。
成纤维细胞已被广泛用于产生iPSC,因为它们的重编程潜力也得到了很好的研究。然而,还有一些必须克服的局限性,例如患者的疼痛活检和成纤维细胞的体外扩增的需要,这可能导致基因突变3 。最近,PBC被发现有利于重编程4 ;此外,它们被普遍利用并且被大量储存。它们可能会将研究重点从皮肤重定向。然而,据我们所知,关于PBC重新编程,随后分化成软骨细胞的报道很少。
在本研究中,我们将PBCs作为替代来源,通过将其重新编程到iPSC中,然后通过沉淀培养系统将iPSC分化成软骨细胞系,以模拟软骨细胞形成。
在这里,我们提供了通过iPSC从PBCs产生软骨细胞的方案。因为PBC在临床领域更常见并被广泛使用,所以它们被认为是重新编程的潜在替代方案。在本研究中,利用附加型载体(EV)将PBC重编程为iPSC,按照Zhang 等人建立的方法11 。这个免费的集成的方法不涉及整合型病毒相关的遗传毒性,这被认为是在临床领域12,13广阔的效果。?…
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作者希望感谢张晓斌的质粒。我们也感谢王绍荣,钱前飞在实验过程中的帮助。本研究得到了国家自然科学基金(No.81101346,81271963,81100331),北京215高级人才项目(No.2014-3-025)和北京朝阳医院基金(No CYXX-2017-01)和中国科学院青年创新促进会(YL)。
Knockout DMEM | Invitrogen | 10829018 | Basal medium used for hiPSC culture and EB formation medium |
Knockout Serum Replacement (KSR) | Invitrogen | 10828028 | A more defined, FBS-free medium supplement used for hiPSC culture and EB formation medium |
Fetal bovine serum (FBS) | Hyclone | sh30070.03 | Used for hiPSC culture and EB formation medium,offers excellent value for cell culture |
Nonessential amino acids | Chemicon | TMS-001-C | Used as a growth supplement in all the cell culture medium, to increase cell growth and viability |
L-glutamine | Invitrogen | 35050061 | An amino acid required for cell culture |
Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) | Peprotech | 100-18B | A cytokine used for sustaining the pluripotency and self-renewal of hiPSCs |
Dispase | Invitrogen | 17105041 | Used for hiPSC dissociation for subculture |
DMEM | Gibco | C11960 | Basal medium used for MSC culture medium |
0.1% gelatin | Millipore | ES-006-B | Used for cell attachment onto the dishes |
0.25% trypsin/EDTA | Gibco | 25200072 | Used for cell dissociation |
DPBS | Gibco | 14190250 | A balanced salt solution used for cell wash or reagent preparing |
β-mercaptoethanol | invitrogen | 21985023 | Used as a growth supplement in all the cell culture medium. |
ITS | invitrogen | 41400045 | Insulin, Transferrin, Selenium Solution.Used for chondrogenic differentiation. |
Ascorbic acid | Sigma | 4403 | Known as vitamin C. It helps in active growth and has antioxidant property. |
Sodium pyruvate | Gibco | 11360070 | Added to cell culture medium as an energy source in addition to glucose. |
Transforming growth factor-beta 1 | Peprotech | AF-100-21C | A cytokine that regulate cell proliferation, growth and chondrogenic differentiation. |
Rabbit polyclonal antibodies against Collagen II | Abcam | ab34712 | This antibody reacts with Type II collagens,which is specific for cartilaginous tissues. |
Mouse monoclonal antibodies to Collagen X | Abcam | ab49945 | This antibody reacts with Type X collagen,which is a product of hyperthrophic chondrotocytes. |
Permount | Fisher Scientific | SP15-100 | For mounting and long-term storage of slides |
Toluidine blue | Sigma | 89640 | Used for proteoglycans detection. |
Alcian blue | Amresco | #0298 | Used for glucosaminoglycans detection. |
Papain | Sigma | P4762-25MG | Used to digest chondrogenic pellets. |
Dimethylmethylene blue | Sigma | 341088-1G | Used to quantitate glycosaminoglyans |
Chondroitin sulfate sodium salt from shark cartilage | Sigma | C4384-250MG | Used to draw the standard curve for sGAG content measurement. |
Qubit dsDNA HS assay kit | Invitrogen | Q32851 (100) | Used to determine DNA content |
TRIzol | Invitrogen | 15596018 | Used for RNA isolation from cells |
Reverse Transcriptase System | Promega | A3500 | Used to convert RNA into cDNA |
SYBR FAST qPCR kit Master Mix | Kapa | KK4601 | Used for Real-time PCR |