scholarly journals A stress-reduced passaging technique improves the viability of human pluripotent cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazutoshi Takahashi ◽  
Chikako Okubo ◽  
Michiko Nakamura ◽  
Mio Iwasaki ◽  
Yuka Kawahara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Dna Damage ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Experimental Error ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Directed Differentiation ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Pluripotent Cells

Xeno-free culture systems have expanded the clinical and industrial application of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). However, yet some problems, such as the reproducibility among the experiments, remain. Here we describe an improved method for the subculture of human PSCs. The revised method significantly enhanced the viability of human PSCs by lowering DNA damage and apoptosis, resulting in more efficient and reproducible downstream applications such as gene editing, gene delivery, and directed differentiation. Furthermore, the method did not alter PSC characteristics after long-term culture and attenuated the growth advantage of abnormal subpopulations. This robust passaging method minimizes experimental error and reduces the rate of PSCs failing quality control of human PSC research and application.

scholarly journals Chemically defined and xeno-free culture condition for human extended pluripotent stem cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bei Liu ◽  
Shi Chen ◽  
Yaxing Xu ◽  
Yulin Lyu ◽  
Jinlin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Culture Condition ◽  
Human Fibroblast ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Disease Modeling ◽  
Directed Differentiation

AbstractExtended pluripotent stem (EPS) cells have shown great applicative potentials in generating synthetic embryos, directed differentiation and disease modeling. However, the lack of a xeno-free culture condition has significantly limited their applications. Here, we report a chemically defined and xeno-free culture system for culturing and deriving human EPS cells in vitro. Xeno-free human EPS cells can be long-term and genetically stably maintained in vitro, as well as preserve their embryonic and extraembryonic developmental potentials. Furthermore, the xeno-free culturing system also permits efficient derivation of human EPS cells from human fibroblast through reprogramming. Our study could have broad utility in future applications of human EPS cells in biomedicine.

scholarly journals Directed differentiation and long-term maintenance of epicardial cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells under fully defined conditions

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1890-1900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoping Bao ◽  
Xiaojun Lian ◽  
Tongcheng Qian ◽  
Vijesh J Bhute ◽  
Tianxiao Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Directed Differentiation ◽  
Epicardial Cells ◽  
Term Maintenance

scholarly journals Long-Term Stability and Differentiation Potential of Cryopreserved cGMP-Compliant Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Shafa ◽  
Tylor Walsh ◽  
Krishna Morgan Panchalingam ◽  
Thomas Richardson ◽  
Laura Menendez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Genomic Stability ◽  
Directed Differentiation ◽  
Differentiation Potential ◽  
Long Term Stability ◽  
Induced Pluripotent ◽  
Cell Banks ◽  
2D And 3D

The clinical effectiveness of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is highly dependent on a few key quality characteristics including the generation of high quality cell bank, long-term genomic stability, post-thaw viability, plating efficiency, retention of pluripotency, directed differentiation, purity, potency, and sterility. We have already reported the establishment of iPSC master cell banks (MCBs) and working cell banks (WCBs) under current good manufacturing procedure (cGMP)-compliant conditions. In this study, we assessed the cellular and genomic stability of the iPSC lines generated and cryopreserved five years ago under cGMP-compliant conditions. iPSC lines were thawed, characterized, and directly differentiated into cells from three germ layers including cardiomyocytes (CMs), neural stem cells (NSCs), and definitive endoderm (DE). The cells were also expanded in 2D and 3D spinner flasks to evaluate their long-term expansion potential in matrix-dependent and feeder-free culture environment. All three lines successfully thawed and attached to the L7TM matrix, and formed typical iPSC colonies that expressed pluripotency markers over 15 passages. iPSCs maintained their differentiation potential as demonstrated with spontaneous and directed differentiation to the three germ layers and corresponding expression of specific markers, respectfully. Furthermore, post-thaw cells showed normal karyotype, negative mycoplasma, and sterility testing. These cells maintained both their 2D and 3D proliferation potential after five years of cryopreservation without acquiring karyotype abnormality, loss of pluripotency, and telomerase activity. These results illustrate the long-term stability of cGMP iPSC lines, which is an important step in establishing a reliable, long-term source of starting materials for clinical and commercial manufacturing of iPSC-derived cell therapy products.

THE QUEST FOR PORCINE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Stoyan Petkov
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Animal Models ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Germ Line ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
Pluripotent Cells ◽  
Long Term Culture ◽  
Porcine Cell

The isolation of embryonic stem cells (ESC) and embryonic germ cells (EGC) from early embryos is a major milestone in modern science and holds a great potential for human medicine. In 2007, Shinia Yamanaka and co-workers reprogrammed somatic cells to pluripotency by induced expression of pluripotency transcription factors. These so-called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are equivalent to ESC in terms of pluripotency and have the same potential for use in regenerative therapies. However, before the use of pluripotent cells or their derivatives in humans, potential therapies need to be tested in suitable animal models to ensure their safety. In this respect, the domestic pig is particularly suited for the testing of stem cell-based therapies intended for humans, since in general physiology and metabolism are similar in human and pigs. Since the isolation of the different types of pluripotent cells in human and mouse, there have been reports of derivation of ESC-like and EGC-like cell lines from porcine embryos. Despite the significant progress that has been reported in these studies, none of the described porcine cell lines have fulfilled all of the criteria for pluripotency, such as long-term maintenance and the ability to differentiate into all of the cells in the organism, including the germ line. This has prevented the use of these cells in the genetic engineering of livestock as well as their therapeutic application in animal models for human diseases. The derivation of the first porcine cell lines with iPSC characteristics (Ezashi et al. 2009 PNAS 27, 10 993–10 998) has provided a viable alternative to the ESC/EGC, and some major successes have been already achieved. The majority of the putative iPSC described in the literature have demonstrated pluripotent characteristics such as expression of various pluripotency markers and an ability to differentiate into the three primary germ layers in vivo by forming teratomas in immunodeficient mice. One group has reported the derivation of iPSC lines that have been capable to generate chimeras with germline contribution (West et al. 2011 Stem Cells 29, 1640–1643), which is the first fully confirmed report of successfully produced porcine germ line chimera to date. Additionally, the differentiation of putative iPSC into rod photoreceptors and their integration into the retinas of recipient pigs has been reported (Zhou et al. 2011 Stem Cells 29, 972–980). Despite these major achievements, some challenges remain to be overcome in order to make porcine iPSC more widely applicable in disease models and in the transgenic technology. Due to some variations in the morphological and molecular characteristics of the reported putative iPSC lines, it needs to be determined which markers are the hallmarks of truly pluripotent porcine iPSC. Second, it is still not clear which are the optimal culture conditions for derivation and long-term culture of these cells. Since the culture conditions used today have been proven ineffective to maintain pluripotency in porcine ESC and EGC, the question remains whether the continuous expression of the transgenes is an important factor in the long-term culture of iPSC. Finally, it needs to be determined whether putative porcine iPSC derived from cell types other than multipotent stem cells (such as mesenchymal stem cells used by West et al., 2011) possess full pluripotency, which should be demonstrated by germ line chimera production via blastocyst injection or tetraploid complementation.

Directed differentiation of mouse-induced pluripotent stem cells generates dopaminergic nerve

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S36-S36
Author(s):  
Ping Duan ◽  
Xuelin Ren ◽  
Wenhai Yan ◽  
Xuefei Han ◽  
Xu Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Directed Differentiation ◽  
Induced Pluripotent

scholarly journals Stability of Imprinting and Differentiation Capacity in Naïve Human Cells Induced by Chemical Inhibition of CDK8 and CDK19

Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 876
Author(s):  
Raquel Bernad ◽  
Cian J. Lynch ◽  
Rocio G. Urdinguio ◽  
Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini ◽  
Mario F. Fraga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Primordial Germ Cell ◽  
Normal Karyotype ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Dna Demethylation ◽  
Starting State ◽  
Teratoma Formation

Pluripotent stem cells can be stabilized in vitro at different developmental states by the use of specific chemicals and soluble factors. The naïve and primed states are the best characterized pluripotency states. Naïve pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) correspond to the early pre-implantation blastocyst and, in mice, constitute the optimal starting state for subsequent developmental applications. However, the stabilization of human naïve PSCs remains challenging because, after short-term culture, most current methods result in karyotypic abnormalities, aberrant DNA methylation patterns, loss of imprinting and severely compromised developmental potency. We have recently developed a novel method to induce and stabilize naïve human PSCs that consists in the simple addition of a chemical inhibitor for the closely related CDK8 and CDK19 kinases (CDK8/19i). Long-term cultured CDK8/19i-naïve human PSCs preserve their normal karyotype and do not show widespread DNA demethylation. Here, we investigate the long-term stability of allele-specific methylation at imprinted loci and the differentiation potency of CDK8/19i-naïve human PSCs. We report that long-term cultured CDK8/19i-naïve human PSCs retain the imprinting profile of their parental primed cells, and imprints are further retained upon differentiation in the context of teratoma formation. We have also tested the capacity of long-term cultured CDK8/19i-naïve human PSCs to differentiate into primordial germ cell (PGC)-like cells (PGCLCs) and trophoblast stem cells (TSCs), two cell types that are accessible from the naïve state. Interestingly, long-term cultured CDK8/19i-naïve human PSCs differentiated into PGCLCs with a similar efficiency to their primed counterparts. Also, long-term cultured CDK8/19i-naïve human PSCs were able to differentiate into TSCs, a transition that was not possible for primed PSCs. We conclude that inhibition of CDK8/19 stabilizes human PSCs in a functional naïve state that preserves imprinting and potency over long-term culture.

scholarly journals Development of Multilayer Mesenchymal Stem Cell Cell Sheets

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-24
Author(s):  
Jun Ochiai ◽  
Yutaka Niihara ◽  
Joan Oliva
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stromal Cells ◽  
Pluripotent Stem Cells ◽  
Cell Sheets ◽  
Gene Therapies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
Induced Pluripotent ◽  
New Guidelines

Cell and gene therapies have been developing dramatically over the past decade. To face and adapt to the development of these new therapies, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote and updated new guidelines from 2016 and keep updating them. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are the most used cells for treatment, far ahead from the induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), based on registered clinical trials at clinicaltrials.gov. They are widely used because of their differentiation capacity and their anti-inflammatory properties, but some controversies still require clear answers. Additional studies are needed to determine the dosage, the number, and the route of injections (location and transplantation method), and if allogenic MSCs are safe compared to autologous MSC injection, including their long-term effect. In this review, we summarize the research our company is conducting with the adipose stromal cells in engineering cell sheets and their potential application.

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