scholarly journals Maturation of human intestinal epithelium from pluripotency in vitro

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umut Kilik ◽  
Qianhui Yu ◽  
Rene Holtackers ◽  
Makiko Seimiya ◽  
Aline Xavier da Silveira dos Santos ◽  
...  

Methods to generate human intestinal tissue from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) open new inroads into modeling intestine development and disease. However, current protocols require organoid transplantation into an immunocompromised mouse to achieve matured and differentiated epithelial cell states. Inspired by developmental reconstructions from primary tissues, we establish a regimen of inductive cues that enable stem cell maturation and epithelial differentiation entirely in vitro. We show that the niche factor Neuregulin1 (NRG1) promotes morphological change from proliferative epithelial cysts to matured epithelial tissue in three-dimensional cultures. Single-cell transcriptome analyses reveal differentiated epithelial cell populations, including diverse secretory and absorptive lineages. Comparison to multi-organ developmental and adult intestinal cell atlases confirm the specificity and maturation state of cell populations. Altogether, this work opens a new direction to use in vitro matured epithelium from human PSCs to study human intestinal epithelium development, disease, and evolution in controlled culture environments.

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Ferraretto ◽  
Michela Bottani ◽  
Paola De Luca ◽  
Laura Cornaghi ◽  
Francesca Arnaboldi ◽  
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An intestinal 70/30 Caco2/HT-29 co-culture was set up starting from the parental populations of differentiated cells to mimic the human intestinal epithelium. Co-culture was harvested at confluence 0 (T0) and at 3, 6, 10, and 14 days post confluence after plating (T3, T6, T10, and T14, respectively) for morphological and functional analysis. Transmission electron microscopy revealed different features from T0 to T14: microvilli and a complete junctional apparatus from T6, mucus granules from T3, as also confirmed by PAS/Alcian Blue staining. The specific activity of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), aminopeptidase N (APN), and dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) progressively increased after T0, indicating the acquirement of a differentiated and digestive phenotype. Transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER), indicative of the barrier properties of the monolayer, increased from T0 up to T6 reaching values very similar to the human small intestine. The apparent permeability coefficient for Lucifer Yellow (LY), along with morphological analysis, reveals a good status of the tight junctions. At T14, HT-29 cells reduced to 18.4% and formed domes, indicative of transepithelial transport of nutrients. This Caco2/HT-29 co-culture could be considered a versatile and suitable in vitro model of human intestinal epithelium for the presence of more than one prevalent intestinal cell type, by means of a minimum of 6 to a maximum of 14 post-confluence days obtained without the need of particular inducers of subclones and growth support to reach an intestinal differentiated phenotype.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. e35008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elhaseen Elamin ◽  
Daisy Jonkers ◽  
Kati Juuti-Uusitalo ◽  
Sven van IJzendoorn ◽  
Freddy Troost ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 6660-6669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichiro Tatsuno ◽  
Masanori Horie ◽  
Hiroyuki Abe ◽  
Takeyoshi Miki ◽  
Kozo Makino ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Adherence of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) to the intestinal epithelium is critical for initiation of a bacterial infection. An in vitro infection study previously indicated that EHEC bacteria initially adhere diffusely and then proliferate to develop MC, a process that is mediated by various secreted proteins, such as EspA, EspB, EspD, Tir, and intimin, as well as other putative adherence factors. In the present study, we investigated the role of a large 93-kb plasmid (pO157) in the adherence of O157:H7 (O157Sakai) and found the toxB gene to be involved in the full adherence phenotype. A pO157-cured strain of O157Sakai (O157Cu) developed microcolonies on Caco-2 cells; however, the number of microcolonies was lower than that of O157Sakai, as were the production and secretion levels of EspA, EspB, and Tir. Introduction of a mini-pO157 plasmid (pIC37) composed of thetoxB and ori regions restored full adherence capacity to O157Cu, including production and secretion of the proteins. In contrast, introduction of a pO157 mutant possessingtoxB::Km into O157Cu could not restore the full adherence phenotype. Expression of truncated versions of His-tagged ToxB also promoted EspB production and/or secretion by O157Cu. These results suggest that ToxB contributes to the adherence of EHEC to epithelial cells through promotion of the production and/or secretion of type III secreted proteins.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 10388-10394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianye Fu ◽  
Zhengying Gu ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Hao Song ◽  
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Designed Janus silica nanoparticles can stimulate stronger phagocytosis and exhibit higher cargo transport across an in vitro epithelial monolayer model mimicking the human intestinal epithelium.


2010 ◽  
Vol 188 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thérèse Sergent ◽  
Neil Piront ◽  
Julie Meurice ◽  
Olivier Toussaint ◽  
Yves-Jacques Schneider

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 234-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyi Yin ◽  
Greeshma Ray ◽  
Jenny L. Kerschner ◽  
Shuyu Hao ◽  
Aura Perez ◽  
...  

Organoids are a valuable three-dimensional (3D) model to study the differentiated functions of the human intestinal epithelium. They are a particularly powerful tool to measure epithelial transport processes in health and disease. Though biological assays such as organoid swelling and intraluminal pH measurements are well established, their underlying functional genomics are not well characterized. Here we combine genome-wide analysis of open chromatin by ATAC-Seq with transcriptome mapping by RNA-Seq to define the genomic signature of human intestinal organoids (HIOs). These data provide an important tool for investigating key physiological and biochemical processes in the intestinal epithelium. We next compared the transcriptome and open chromatin profiles of HIOs with equivalent data sets from the Caco2 colorectal carcinoma line, which is an important two-dimensional (2D) model of the intestinal epithelium. Our results define common features of the intestinal epithelium in HIO and Caco2 and further illustrate the cancer-associated program of the cell line. Generation of Caco2 cysts enabled interrogation of the molecular divergence of the 2D and 3D cultures. Overrepresented motif analysis of open chromatin peaks identified caudal type homeobox 2 (CDX2) as a key activating transcription factor in HIO, but not in monolayer cultures of Caco2. However, the CDX2 motif becomes overrepresented in open chromatin from Caco2 cysts, reinforcing the importance of this factor in intestinal epithelial differentiation and function. Intersection of the HIO and Caco2 transcriptomes further showed functional overlap in pathways of ion transport and tight junction integrity, among others. These data contribute to understanding human intestinal organoid biology.


2016 ◽  
Vol 310 (5) ◽  
pp. C348-C356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Arévalo Turrubiarte ◽  
Marie-Hélène Perruchot ◽  
Laurence Finot ◽  
Frédérique Mayeur ◽  
Frédéric Dessauge

Immortalized bovine mammary epithelial cells (BME-UV1) and immortalized bovine mammary alveolar cells (MAC-T) have been extensively used as in vitro cell models to understand milk production in dairy cows. Precise knowledge about their phenotype and performance remains, however, unknown. This study aims to characterize MAC-T and BME-UV1 profiles when cultured in two-dimensional adherent, three-dimensional adherent (Matrigel), and three-dimensional no adherent [ultralow attachment (ULA)] supports. MAC-T and BME-UV1 were compared according to their proliferation capacities and to specific cell surface markers CD24, CD326 [epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM)], CD10, and integrin CD49f (α-6). Cytokeratin (CK14 and CK19), signal transducer and activator of transcription 5, and other proteins (occludin and cadherin-1) were analyzed. BME-UV1 in ULA support expressed higher CD49f marker. A different intensity of CD49 staining allowed the discrimination between the two cell lines in adherent condition. CD10, EpCAM, and CK19 expressions show that BME-UV1 cells have luminal capacity, while MAC-T has a myoepithelial profile with a high expression of CK14. BME-UV1 cells possess a closer committed progenitor profile due to their higher expression in aldehyde dehydrogenase and EpCAM. We observed that BME-UV1 cells have a better capacity to form spherical structures, mammospheres, in Matrigel than MAC-T, which was confirmed by the higher mammosphere area. In the ULA condition, BME-UV1 proliferated over the 6 days of culture. Taken together, our results clearly confirm the BME-UV1 luminal profile and MAC-T ductal/myoepithelial-like phenotype.


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