Name: sirna transfection and emsa analyses on freshly isolated human villous cytotrophoblasts
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This work was supported by a grant from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (#298527) (BB). CT was supported by an institutional FARE scholarship. AV was supported by a NSERC Graham Bell Ph.D. scholarship. BB held a Canada Research Chair in Human Retrovirology (Tier 2). Thanks to Beatrix Beisner for help in revising the text.

The UQAM ethics committee has approved these protocols, which are in accordance with the guidelines of the ethics committee of St-Luc Hospital of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montr&#233;al (Montr&#233;al, Canada). Participants signed an informed consent form.
1. Medium Preparation and Isolation of Primary Villous Cytotrophoblasts
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	<li>Prepare culture medium for human primary villous cytotrophoblasts by supplementing Dulbecco&#8217;s Modified Eagle&#8217;s Medium (DMEM) with 25 mM HEPES, 1...

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Studies on human placental function and development have been greatly improved by protocols aimed at optimizing isolation of various placental cell populations. One of the best studied placental cell population remains the villous cytotrophoblasts, the study of which has greatly benefited from optimized protocols permitting efficient and reliable isolation. This has further allowed a number of experiments, such as transfection and promoter studies. Using a previously described protocol 3, pure populations of p...

Human placental dysfunction is associated with the development of several pregnancy-associated diseases like preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction 1. An important cell constituent of the placenta is the trophoblasts, which can be classified as either extravillous or villous cytotrophoblasts. Upon fusion, villous cytotrophoblasts further differentiate into the syncytiotrophoblast layer, a multinuclear cell structure with an important role in feto-maternal exchange and hormone production 2. Human primary villous cytotrophoblasts and their differentiated counterparts represent important biological samples and allow researchers to study a number of placenta-related processes, such as cell fusion, in culture. Furthermore, substantial efforts are ongoing to identify markers that will facilitate appropriate management and improve preventive therapies specific to pregnancy-related diseases. Laboratories routinely isolate primary human villous cytotrophoblasts from fresh placentas, using a standard isolation procedure based on trypsin digestion of placenta villi 3. As cultured cytotrophoblasts lose their capacity to proliferate and quickly differentiate in a syncytiotrophoblast-like layer upon culture 4, very efficient transfection methods and optimized analysis approaches are needed. Previous studies have determined optimal conditions of transfection of these primary cytotrophoblasts 5. Herein, a different method of siRNA transfection, which has been previously tested in this cell type 6, is presented. In comparison to a lipofection-based approach, this microporation method improves transfection, as assessed by the extent of silencing of specific genes.
Promoter and gene expression studies also provide a better understanding of placental function. Although more difficult to use owing to the short time frame for which primary villous cytotrophoblasts can be cultured, promoter analyses using standard protocols can nonetheless be addressed, as previously published 7. Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay (EMSA) is one of these commonly used in vitro methods, allowing for fast and easy monitoring of DNA-protein interactions. Nuclear extracts from these primary trophoblasts were used to test a region of the Syncytin-2 promoter for specific interactions. Results revealed that bound factors could be detected at different time points of culture and in a specific and reproducible manner.
Data presented in this protocol confirm that our transfection approach and the EMSA protocol can be used for isolated primary villous cytotrophoblasts and will be of great use to study the diverse functions of villous cytotrophoblasts in normal or pathological conditions.

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sirna transfection and emsa analyses on freshly isolated human villous cytotrophoblasts

Human primary villous cytotrophoblasts are a very useful source of primary cells to study placental functions and regulatory mechanisms, and to comprehend diseases related to pregnancy. In this protocol, human primary villous cytotrophoblasts freshly isolated from placentas through a standard DNase/trypsin protocol are microporated with small interfering RNA (siRNA). This approach provided greater efficiency for siRNA transfection when compared to a lipofection-based method. Transfected cells can subsequently be analyzed by standard Western blot within a time frame of 3-4 days post-transfection. In addition, using cultured primary villous cytotrophoblasts, Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay (EMSA) analysis was optimized and performed on extracts from days 1 to 4. The use of these cultured primary cells and the protocol described allow for an evaluation of the implication of specific genes and transcription factors in the process of villous cytotrophoblast differentiation into a syncytiotrophoblast-like cell layer. However, the limited time span allowable in culture precludes the use of methods requiring more time, such as generation of a stable cell population. Therefore testing of this cell population requires highly optimized gene transfer protocols.

Fresh placentas from term pregnancies were used to isolate human primary villous cytotrophoblasts to conduct the set of experiments presented in the Protocol section. Following their isolation, we first analyzed the purity of cytotrophoblasts through the use of the cytokeratin-7 marker (Figure 1). Cell preparations were thus stained using a monoclonal anti-cytokeratin-7 antibody. Figure 1 represents results from a typical experiment following purification...

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siRNA Transfection and EMSA Analyses on Freshly Isolated Human Villous Cytotrophoblasts

This protocol describes a method for efficiently transfecting siRNA in freshly isolated human villous cytotrophoblasts using microporation and identifying DNA-protein complexes in these cells. Transfected cells can be monitored by Western blot and EMSA analyses during the 4-day culture time.

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