Method Article
Here we describe an optimized, highly reproducible protocol to isolate Mesodermal Progenitor Cells (MPCs) from human bone marrow (hBM). MPCs were characterized by flow cytometry and nestin expression. They showed the ability to give rise to exponentially growing MSC-like cell cultures while retaining their angiogenic potential.
In a research study aimed to isolate human bone marrow (hBM)-derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) for clinical applications, we identified a novel cell population specifically selected for growth in human serum supplemented medium. These cells are characterized by morphological, phenotypic, and molecular features distinct from MSCs and we named them Mesodermal Progenitor Cells (MPCs). MPCs are round, with a thick highly refringent core region; they show strong, trypsin resistant adherence to plastic. Failure to expand MPCs directly revealed that they are slow in cycling. This is as also suggested by Ki-67 negativity. On the other hand, culturing MPCs in standard medium designed for MSC expansion, gave rise to a population of exponentially growing MSC-like cells. Besides showing mesenchymal differentiation capacity MPCs retained angiogenic potential, confirming their multiple lineage progenitor nature. Here we describe an optimized highly reproducible protocol to isolate and characterize hBM-MPCs by flow cytometry (CD73, CD90, CD31, and CD45), nestin expression, and F-actin organization. Protocols for mesengenic and angiogenic differentiation of MPCs are also provided. Here we also suggest a more appropriate nomenclature for these cells, which has been re-named as "Mesangiogenic Progenitor Cells".
间充质基质细胞(MSCs)是其多谱系分化能力和支持造血分泌生长因子/细胞因子,以及在免疫调节1发挥作用的能力,相关的临床应用价值。在基于MSC的疗法电池生产和应用的定义已经广泛的临床和临床前研究2的对象,尤其要注意对细胞的基础医药产品(自学计划)治疗3的安全性和有效性的具体国际规则。人MSC在含有补充剂和动物来源的试剂媒体广泛培养如胎牛血清(FBS)和牛胰蛋白酶。因此,沿着与细胞操作相关的感染风险,患者还面临朊病毒曝光以及链接到蛋白质,肽或动物来源的其它生物分子的免疫学的风险,可能细胞收获和transplan后持续塔季翁4。
为了规避这个问题,我们培养人的骨髓(HBM)的无动物中衍生的干细胞,用混合人AB型血清(PhABS)替换FBS。在这些条件下,沿着生长的MSC我们鉴定了一种新的细胞群。这些细胞在形态和从干细胞表型的不同而表现出独特的基因表达谱以及特性生长/粘合性能。他们既保留和mesengenic血管生成潜力,因此被命名为中胚层祖细胞 (多用途储值卡)5。随后,我们能够限定选择性的和可重复的培养条件以产生纯度6的高品位的MPC。
我们进一步研究的MPC的形态和生物性质。所述的MPC,证实是巢蛋白阳性,慢于自行车,Ki-67的阴性,并用其特征在于长端粒5染色体。他们表示pluripotency相关转录因子Oct-4和Nanog的而不是MSC主调节Runx2的和Sox9的7。表型,多用途储值卡比的MSCs低表达内皮糖蛋白(CD105),而缺乏的间充质标记CD73,CD90,CD166。的MPC还显示其特征在于PECAM(CD31)的一致的表达粘附分子,整联αL(CD11a),αM(CD11b的),αX(CD11c的)以及整联β2(CD18)的一个独特的图案,专门维持podosome状结构8 。在标准MSC扩容媒体,及时多用途储值卡通过一个中间阶段具有Wnt5 /钙调蛋白细胞信号9的激活分化为干细胞。的MPC还保留血管发生性质,可以通过从在鼠细胞外基质(ECM)蛋白的3D培养物的球状体发芽能力所证明。血管生成潜在沿着mesengenic谱系分化MPC后迅速消失。
这里我们介绍的亲母育酚优化以分离和表征来自HBM血样高度纯化的MPC。为MPC mesengenic和血管发生分化再现的协议也有所说明。
注:书面同意后,整形外科髋关节置换过程中获得了HBM样品。紧接着股骨颈截骨和股前扩孔含肝素500 UI 20 ml注射器,用于吸新鲜BM。该协议被认为广泛地适用于任何的BM来源。
1.人骨髓单个核细胞的分离(HBM-跨国公司)
2.从HBM-跨国公司隔离的多用途储值卡
3.细胞表征
4.多用途储值卡的Mesengenic分化
5. MPC球体发芽试验
这里所描述的选择性培养条件已经允许的新的粘附和几乎单形细胞群体的分离作为HBM-跨国公司的1.0%(0.5 - 2.0×10 5 6 HBM-跨国公司- 10毫升新鲜骨髓样品)5,6- 。我们发现这些大(40 -直径为60微米),圆形,静止的,Ki-67的阴性细胞的MPC 5。形态学上,它们与由一个平薄周边示出大量的丝状伪足的在更高的放大率(白色箭头在图1中A.1)包围的厚芯区域特征在于独特的煎鸡蛋形。外小区边界的极性伸长经常观察到( 图1中A.1黑色箭头)。这样的形态是标准的MSC文化报道典型的梭形间充质基质细胞的外观明显不同。流式细胞仪检测新鲜分离的MPC的95%以上表达CD31和CD45,而Xesenchymal相关标志物CD90和CD73 13人不到( 图1 A.2)。我们认为这是受限制的组的四个抗原所指示的多用途储值卡。的MPC的进一步区别特征是虚线F-肌动蛋白分布揭示了一些podosome状结构的(红色图1 A.3)和巢蛋白的强烈表达(绿色图1 A.3),其未在细胞中检测到(数据未显示)与同种型对照抗体染色。
在标准的RS培养的MPC媒体设计用于快速分化MSC扩张成果转化为指数增长MSC样细胞( 图1 B.1)。两次传代细胞后,终于切换其从CD73 负 负 CD90 + CD45 + CD31 CD73到CD90 + CD45 + CD31 NEG NEG( 图1 B.2)表型。在这个过程中,的MPC重新ORGAnize F-肌动蛋白成应力纤维,而巢蛋白表达变得仅限于少数稀有细胞( 图1 B.3)。 MPC mesengenic分化成一个明确的MSC样表型发生通过不同的细胞形态显示两个不同的步骤。一周的MSC的RS介质MPC样细胞的残留人口后仍(在图2所述的 P1-的MSC)平的,多边形的多支化的细胞的汇合层内可检测的。进一步的通道才能获得( 图2中 P2-MSCS)纺锤形MSC样细胞几乎单态文化。当转移到选择性培养基中,至少2周,从而证实它们的MSC性质这些指数生长的细胞可以容易地分化为成骨细胞或脂肪细胞。在成骨诱导培养,钙沉积可以通过比色茜素-S染色或特定的荧光染料(绿色如图2 B)进行检测。后成脂诱导细胞显示脂滴的积累由两种油色红或荧光尼罗红染色(红图2 B)透露。
MPC打字是由发芽血管生成实验证实。多用途储值卡显示,他们对24小时后血管内皮生长因子刺激( 图2 C)从三维球体入侵(50微米)的小鼠细胞外基质蛋白胶的能力。 600微米的距离 - 在后300检测1周侵入细胞。相反,入侵容量mesengenic分化( 图2 D)后失去了在P2-干细胞。
图1. 新鲜分离的MPC具有鲜明的特色:在DMEM / 10%PhABS培养HBM-跨国公司七天引起静态的MPC(A)从干细胞很容易分辨的群体(B) 的形态学方面(A.1,B.1,比例尺= 100微米),表型(A.2,B.2),F-肌动蛋白分布(红A.3中,B.3)和巢蛋白的表达(绿色A.3,B.3,比例尺= 20微米)。 请点击此处查看该图的放大版本。
图2 的MPC 分化成中等专为MSC扩张市售RS DMEM / PhABS 体外 。更换标准MSC和显示发芽血管生成触发的MPC的mesengenic诱导。在培养一周后一些残余的MPC仍检测到(P1-的MSC),而在MSC-RS介质进一步通路导致人口汇合的MSC样细胞(P2-的MSC 中,A比例尺= 100微米)。 P2间充质干末端分别分化成下适当的刺激骨细胞或脂肪细胞钙沉积(绿色B)和脂滴的积累(红B,比例尺= 200微米)所揭示。多用途储值卡显示在与P2-干细胞(D,比例尺= 1.0毫米)的区别在小鼠ECM蛋白质凝胶(C)球体一致的萌芽。 请点击此处查看该图的放大版本。
In the last decades, MSCs have been extensively researched and pre-clinically evaluated for possible application in the treatment of various bone/articular, immunological, neurological, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and hematological disorders14,15. The easy and inexpensive isolation of multipotent MSCs, from many different tissues, together with their lack of significant immunogenicity16, contribute to make these cells one of the most interesting cell population to be applied in cell based therapies. Nonetheless, the very low frequency in the tissue of origin represents a great limitation to the MSCs application in clinics, forcing the expansion of these cells, in vitro, before the infusion or transplantation.
Expanded MSC cultures have revealed high grades of heterogeneity and variability17-19 making it difficult to reach a consensus about MSC production and characterization protocols. Moreover, recent investigations suggested the presence of multiple in vivo MSC ancestors in a wide range of tissues, which contribute to culture heterogeneity10,20. In fact, it has been proposed that particular culture conditions possibly select or simply promote specific sub-populations of MSCs progenitors present, in various percentages, in "crude" and unprocessed samples like bone marrow (hBM-MNCs) or adipose tissues (stromal vascular fraction)2. Thus, the variability in MSC-initiating cell populations together with the great number of different enrichment/isolation and culture protocols applied, represent a great obstacle to the definition of feasible MSC-based therapies.
A crucial factor affecting heterogeneity of MSC cultures is serum supplementation21. In our hands replacement of FBS with PhABS in primary cultures from hBM-MNCs, combined with high density seeding on hydrophobic plastics, led to the isolation of a novel highly adherent cell population with distinct biological features named MPCs5,6. We observed that the addition of small percentages of PhABS to FBS primary cultures also allowed MPC isolation, suggesting the presence of MPC inducing agents in the human serum6. At the moment, the MPC isolation/characterization protocol is a unique method available to obtain almost pure MPCs. The protocol has been carefully adjusted and it is highly reproducible for quality screening of MPC preparations before further applications.
MPCs could be used as a source for MSC production, thus limiting the variability introduced by use of unfractionated starting material. The precise definition of the multiple steps characterizing MPC mesengenic differentiation reported9 would allow synchronized mesenchymal cell expansion. Nonetheless, this latest condition could be realized exclusively applying highly purified MPC population, as a consequence the characterization of the cell products obtained by the protocol described here, results of crucial importance. This isolating method has been reported allowing MPC recovery with purity generally around 95%. However, donor/patient variability together with the variability related to the different batches of human pooled serum applied, could lead to a significant percentage of MSC-like cells co-isolated together with MPCs, under selective conditions.
It is not clear if these "contaminating" MSC-like cells could arise from the other different in vivo progenitors described in bone marrow22 or from uncontrolled and spontaneous MPC differentiation. In any case, a consistent percentage of MSC-like cells in the MPC products nullify the possibility to applying these cells as homogeneous starting material for the MSC expansion. Thus, here it has been suggested a simple and inexpensive method, based on the MPC resistance to trypsin digestion, increasing the purity of the MPC products. Similar or even better results in purifying MPC cultures could be achieved by fluorescent or magnetic cell sorting performing CD73 and/or CD90 depletion, but significantly prolonging the process time and increasing the costs.
Moreover, MPCs showed expression of pluripotency-associated markers and Nestin, all rapidly lost during mesengenic differentiation7. Sprouting assay revealed MPC ability to invade murine ECM protein gel. Taken together these results indicate that MPCs have to be considered a more immature progenitor, retaining angiogenic potential. Nonetheless, the initial enthusiasm about mesodermal differentiation potential of MPCs is actually waning. In fact, after more than 7 years of studies on MPCs, mesengenic and angiogenic potential have been extensively described5-9, but differentiation toward any other cells of mesodermal origin is still lacking. Thus, here we propose a new, and more rigorous, definition of these cells as "Mesangiogenic Progenitor Cells", maintaining the acronym MPCs.
We also believe that most controversies about MSC angiogenic potential could be related to the heterogeneous composition of expanded cultures consisting of sub-populations of MPCs and MSCs in variable percentages23.
Finally, MPCs could also play a crucial role for the implementation of CBMPs applicable for tissue reconstruction, as these cells could also support the neo-vascularization. In fact, future studies on regeneration should take in consideration that the newly formed tissue growth should be supported by concomitant neo-angiogenesis. The co-existence of mesengenic and angiogenic potential in MPCs could significantly improve the regeneration potential of new therapeutic approaches that involve these interesting cells.
The authors have no competing financial interests or other conflicts of interest.
作者在特别感谢保罗Parchi博士的外科,医学和分子病理学和危重病急救医学,比萨大学,提供骨髓样本和他的人骨祖细胞的专长
Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
Matrigel Basement Membrane Matrix | BD Bioscience (San Jose, CA-USA) | 354230 | Murine ECM proteins Stock Concentration: 100% (9 - 12 mg/ml) Final Concentration: 100% |
Dulbecco's Phosphate-Buffered Saline (D-PBS) | Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) | D8537 | |
70 μm Filters | Miltenyi Biotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-095-823 | |
Ficoll-Paque PREMIUM | GE Healthcare (Uppsala, Sweden) | 17-5442-03 | medium for discontinuos density gradient centrifugation |
Pooled human AB type serum (PhABS) | LONZA (Walkersville MD-USA) | 14-490E | Final Concentration: 10% |
Glutamax-I | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | 35050-038 | Stabilized L-Glutamine Stock Concentration: 100x Final Concentration: 2 mM |
Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) | Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) | A8412 | Stock Concentration: 7.5% Final Concentration: 0.5% |
Sodium Azide | Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) | S8032 | Final Concentration: 0.02% |
Penicillin/Streptomycin (Pen Strep) | Gibco (Grand Island, NY, USA) | 15070-063 | Antibiotics Stock Concentration: 5,000 UI/ml penicillin, 5,000 μg/ml Streptomycin Final Concentration: 50 UI/ml penicillin, 50 μg/ml Streptomycin |
T-75 culture flask for suspension cultures | Greiner Bio-one (Frickenhausen, Germany) | 658 190 | |
T-75 culture flask TC treated | Greiner Bio-one (Frickenhausen, Germany) | 658170 | |
TrypLE Select | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | 12563-011 | Animal-free proteases detaching solution Stock Concentration: 1x Final Concentration: 1x |
Trypsin/EDTA | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | 15400-054 | Phenol red free Stock Concentration: 0.5% Final Concentration: 0.25% |
anti-CD90 APC antibody (CD90) | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-095-402 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
anti-CD45 APC-Vio770 antibody (CD45) | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-096-609 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
anti-CD73 PE antibody (CD73) | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-095-182 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
anti-CD31 PE Vio-770 antibody (CD31) | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-105-260 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
Mouse IgG1 APC antibody | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-098-846 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
Mouse IgG2a APC Vio770 antibody | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-096-637 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
Mouse IgG1 PE antibody | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-098-845 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
Mouse IgG1 PE Vio-770 antibody | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-098-563 | Final Concentration: 1:40 |
Low Glucose Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | 13-1331-82 | Phenol red-free minimal essential medium Stock Concentration: 1,000 mg/L glucose |
Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | 10500 | Stock Concentration:0.2 mg/ml Final Concentration: 2 μg/ml |
Prolong Gold antifade reagent with 4’,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole | Invitrogen (Waltham, MA, USA) | P-36931 | Aqueous mounting medium + DAPI Final Concentration: 1x |
Paraformaldehyde | Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) | P6148 | Fixative Final Concentration: 4% |
LAB-TEK two-well chamber slides | Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) | C6682 | |
Anti-Nestin antibody [clone 10C2] | Abcam (Cambridge, UK) | ab2035 | Stock Concentration: 1 mg/ml Final Concentration: 7 μg/ml |
Alexa Fluor 555 Phalloidin | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | A34055 | Stock Concentration: 200 UI/ml Final Concentration: 5 UI/ml |
Triton X-100 | Euroclone (Milan, Italy) | EMR237500 | Final Concentration: 0.05% |
MesenPRO RS Medium (MSC-RS medium) | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | 12746-012 | |
Alexa Fluor 488 anti-mouse SFX kit | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | A31619 | Goat anti-mouse secondary antibody + Signal enhancer Stock Concentration: 2 mg/ml Final Concentration: 2 μg/ml |
Pasteur Pipette | Kartell Labware (Noviglio (MI), ITALY ) | 329 | |
StemMACS AdipoDiff Media | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-091-679 | |
StemMACS OsteoDiff Media | MiltenyiBiotec (BergischGladbach, Germany) | 130-091-678 | |
Osteoimage Bone mineralization Assay | LONZA (Walkersville MD-USA) | PA-1503 | Hydroxyapatite specific fluorescent staining solution |
50 ml Polystyrene conical tube | Greiner bio-one (Kremsmünster Austria) | 227261 | |
Nile Red | ThermoFisher (Waltham, MA USA) | N1142 | Fluorescent staining solution for lipids Stock Concentration: 100 mM Final Concentration: 200 Nm |
Glycerin | Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) | G2289 | Final Concentration: 50% |
Polistirene Petri dishes | Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) | P5606 | |
24-well plates TC-treated | Greiner Bio-one GmbH (Frickenhausen, Germany) | 662160 | |
Endothelial Growth Medium, EGM-2 BulletKit (EGM-2) | LONZA (Walkersville MD-USA) | CC-3162 | VEGF-rich endothelial cell growth medium |
Leica Qwin Image Analisys Software | Leica (Wetzlar, Germany) | Image analysis software |
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