Genomic and other cell tracing approaches , reprogramming
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Manifestation of Novel Social Challenges of the European Unionin the Teaching Material ofMedical Biotechnology Master’s Programmesat the University of Pécs and at the University of DebrecenIdentification number: TÁMOP-4.1.2-08/1/A-2009-0011
GENOMIC AND OTHER CELL TRACING APPROACHES, REPROGRAMMING
Dr. Péter Balogh and Dr. Péter EngelmannTransdifferentiation and regenerative medicine – Lecture 5
Manifestation of Novel Social Challenges of the European Unionin the Teaching Material ofMedical Biotechnology Master’s Programmesat the University of Pécs and at the University of DebrecenIdentification number: TÁMOP-4.1.2-08/1/A-2009-0011
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Animal cloning
• 1952: Tadpole• 1963: Carp• 1986: Mice• 1996: Sheep • 2000: Monkey• 2001: Cattle, cat• 2003: Rat, horse, mule• 2005: Dog
• 2008: Human
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Stem Cell Potential
Type Description Examples
TotipotentCells develop into a new individual
Cells of 1-4 days old embryos
Pluripotent Cells form any cell typeSome cells of blastocyst (5-14 days old)
MultipotentDifferentiated cells, but can form other tissues
Fetal tissue, cord blood, and adult stem cells
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+ Oct4, Sox2,Klf4, Myc
Origin of stem cells and reprogramming
Blastocyst
Embryonicstem cells
Pluripotent
Zygote
Totipotent
AdultEpiblast(post-implantation)
Epiblaststem cells
Pluripotent
Late embryo/ early foetus
Embryonicgerm cells
Pluripotent
Adultstem cells
Multipotent orunipotent
Skin
Central nervoussystem
Bone marrow
Other
Induced pluripotentstem cellsPluripotent
Inner cell mass Epiblast Primordialgerm cells
Fatedecision
Fatedecision
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Conventional Sources of Stem Cells1 Somatic stem cells• Harvested from mature organs or tissues (bone
marrow)• Multipotent, may be tissue specific, pluripotent?• Many established clinical uses
2 Embryonic stem cell• Derived from ICM of blastocyst• Pluripotent, differentiate to all cell lineages• Encumbered by technical and ethical issues• May be induced from adult tissues
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Origins of ES Cell Lines
1 Excess IVF embryos2 Therapeutic Cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer) • Donor oocyte + somatic cell nucleus• Cells have characteristics of nuclear donor • Lines representing different diseases• Individualized lines: non-immunogenic to donor
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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
• Challenging: In cloned cell lines, about 4% of genes function abnormally, owing to departures from normal activation or expression of certain genes -Imprinting, methylation state
• Limited success: ~25 percent of nuclear transfers led to a blastocyst; 35 percent of blastocysts led to establishment of cell lines
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Micromanipulation equipment• Inverted microscope (fluorescent)• CO2 incubator• Thermal / heatable stage• Holding pipette (inner diameter 10 µm)• Injection pipette ( inner diameter 7 µm)
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Chromosome removal (‘Enucleation’)• Chemical enucleation: using specific inhibitors• Mechanical enucleation:
1 The egg is immobilized on the holding pipette with the chromosome–spindle.
2 The zona pellucida is penetrated by the injection pipette and the injection pipette is pushed against the chromosome–spindle complex for aspiration.
3 Aspiration of the chromosome–spindle complex.4 Complete removal of the chromosome–spindle
complex and exit of injection pipette. 5 Release of chromosome–spindle complex.
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Nuclear injection• Electrofusion• Microinjection:
1 Penetration of the egg’s zona pellucida by the injection pipette.
2 Aspiration of small amount of cytoplasm to facilitate re-sealing of the egg’s plasma membrane.
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Egg activation• Mammalian eggs are arrested in metaphase stage
during ovulation.• SCNT is unable to reinitiate / trigger the cell cycle,
PLCζ enzyme is missing, resulting in abolished Ca2+ influx.
• During egg activation Ca2+ rise is essential, which can be evoked by strontium chloride (SrCl2).
• SrCl2 treatment is more effective than EtOH or ionophores.
• One hour after nuclear injection happened, egg activation can be performed in specialized conditions.
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Blastocysts and ESC colony formation• ESCs can be derived from eight cell embryos
or from morula stage, however the most efficien scenario, when blastocysts are used.
• By the 5th or 6th day after plating, an inner cell mass outgrowth is usually observed.
• For the culture of ESC cells feeder cells are essential.
• Four to five days later ESC colonies should appear at the side of culture dishes.
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Stem cell characterization I • Characterization: test the cells to see whether they
exhibit the fundamental properties that make them embryonic stem cells
• Growing and subculturing the stem cells for many months microscope inspection for the healthy and undifferentiated of cells.
• Using specific techniques to determine the presence of surface markers that are found only on undifferentiated cells
• Presence of Oct4 a transcription factor, which helps turn genes on and off at the right time for the processes of cell differentiation and embryonic development.
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Stem cell characterization II • Determining whether the cells can be subcultured after
freezing, thawing, and replating • Testing whether the human embryonic stem cells are
pluripotent by:– allowing the cells to differentiate spontaneously in cell culture– manipulating the cells so they will differentiate to form
specific cell types – injecting the cells into an immunosuppressed mouse to test
for the formation of a benign tumor called a teratoma • Teratomas typically contain a mixture of many differentiated or
partly differentiated cell types • An indication that the embryonic stem cells are capable of
differentiating into multiple cell types. • When embryoid bodies are formed they begin to differentiate
spontaneously/They can form muscle cells/nerve cell/another types.
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Stem cell markers I • Oct4: octamer-binding transcription factor 4 homeodomain tr.
molecule is coded by POU5F1 gene and marks ES cells and undifferentiated, maternal factor active in oocyte and in embryos.
• Sox2: or SRY (sex determining region Y)-box 2 HMG factor act as a transcriptional activator after forming a protein complex with other proteins (Oct4, Pax6). Essential for iPSc formation.
• SSEA3/4: stage specific embryonic antigens are of five to six monosaccharides attached to a ceramide lipid tail. Their presence rapidly increasing during differentiation. SSEA-3 and SSEA-4 were recently shown not to be essential for the maintenance of hESC pluripotency
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Stem cell markers II
• TRA-1-60, TRA-1-81: tumor rejection antigens widely used markers for stem cell characterization. They can recognize a keratan-sulfated proteoglycan (KSPG) in neuraminidase-sensitive and neuraminidase-insensitive fashion.
• Alkaline phosphatase is a hydrolase enzyme, it is also essential to identify stem cells and verify their functionality.
TÁMOP-4.1.2-08/1/A-2009-0011Cell tracing in stem cell biology:non genomic • BrdU (bromodeoxyuridine) incorporation• Fluorescent dyes:
– CM-DiI – CFSE– Hoechst 33342– PKH26
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Cell tracing in stem cell biology: genomic I1 GFP• 27 kDa protein (isolated originally from
jellyfish)• popular reporter system in tissue after
cloning gene of interest• different GFP variant
2 Lac-Z• lac operon gene from E. coli• histochemical reporter using X-gal
substrate
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Cell tracing in stem cell biology: genomic II3 Y chromosome marker• The detection is a relatively simple process
compared to gene cloning and expression based methods (GFP, LacZ)• FISH analysis• High labeling efficiency• Widely used stem cell transplantation
approaches (cardiac-, intestine disease)
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In vivo imaging for cell tracing• New development of time lapse and two-
photon microscopy gave boost for live cell imaging including cell tracing.
• Stem cells can be imaged at various time points and locations to generate time-lapse movies, and automated image analysis and statistical analyses are used to quantify the dynamic cells’ behaviour.
• Together with cell migration, changes in cell shape and changes in proliferation kinetics can be monitored.
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Cell tracing in stem cell biology
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Single-cell fate analyses
Migration Cell-shape changeProliferation
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Automatedimage analyses
andstatistical analyses
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Reprogramming
Somatic cells can be dedifferentiated into stem cells, so called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells using certain aprroaches.• Cell-fusion based• Nuclear extract based• Transfection of pluripotent factors• Somatic cell nuclear transfer
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Molecular mechanisms ofself-renewal
G2
G1 M
S
Cell-cycle regulation
Prevention of differentation
Sox2Nanog
Oct3/4
Klf4Tbx3
STAT3Akt MAPK
JakPI3K Grb2
Lif
Cdx2 Gata4
c-Mycb-Myb
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Genes involved in reprogramming• Nanog:The nanog cDNA consists of 2184 nucleotides (nt) and
contains a single open reading frame encoding a poly-peptide of 305 amino acids.– the role in pluripotency of both inner cell mass (ICM) and
embryonic stem (ES) cells– the ability to maintain ES cell self-renewal.
• Klf4: Krüppel-like factor, interact with CREB transcription factor, expressed in ESC and MSCs.
• Lin28: a cytoplasmic mRNA binding protein, binds to IGF-2 mRNA, enhance the efficiency of the formation of iPSc from human fibroblasts, marker of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells, able to bind let-7 miRNA and inhibit it.
• Oct4: see previously• Sox2: see previously
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Telomerase activity I• Telomeres are ribonucleoprotein heterochromatic
structures at the ends of chromosomes that protect them from degradation and from being detected as double-strand DNA breaks.
• When Dolly was cloned using SCNT, reliable question was raised about the age of her cells? Telomere was shorter, by approximately 20%, when compared with age-matched controls.
• After some conflicting results concluded that shortened telomeres of somatic donor cells could be indeed re-elongated during reprogramming, although the degree of elongation was quite variable, underscoring the complexity of telomere length control.
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Telomerase activity IITelomers in iPS cells• High levels of Tert (reverse transcriptase component of
telomerase) and high telomerase activity were described in iPS cells.
• iPS reprogramming of normal cells (mice and human) results telomerase activation and restoration of telomeres, like setting the clock, to a length and chromatin state that is similar to that found in ES cells.
• Telomerase activation during iPS reprogramming is associated with upregulation of TERT, but also TERC (Tel. Associated rNA component) become activated. Moreover OCT4 and NANOG bind to the TERC gene reg. element, which may explain why these components are upregulated in iPS cells
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Summary
• ES and iPS cell fates can be monitored with a branch of fluorescent vital dyes (non-genomic/ genomic) using in vivo imaging techniques.
• Restoration of pluripotency factors and self-renewal specific genes (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4) can exhibit the reprogramming for iPS cells.
• iPS cell generation can be good candidates for regenerative medicine, however there are still several unanswered questions/ concerns in reprogramming.