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Improving stem cell-derived pancreatic islets using single-cell multiome-inferred regulomes [Childhood snATAC-seq]

ABSTRACT: Pancreatic islet cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells hold great promise for modeling and treating diabetes. Differences between stem cell-derived and primary islets remain, but molecular insights to inform improvements are limited. Here, we acquire single-cell transcriptomes and accessible chromatin profiles during in vitro islet differentiation and from primary childhood and adult pancreas for comparison. We delineate major cell types, define their regulomes, and describe spatiotemporal regulatory relationships between transcription factors. CDX2 emerged as a regulator of enterochromaffin-like cells, which we show resemble a previously unrecognized, transient CDX2-expressing β-cell-related population in fetal pancreas, arguing against a non-pancreatic origin as proposed. Furthermore, we observe insufficient activation of signal-dependent transcriptional programs during in vitro β-cell maturation and identify sex hormones as drivers of childhood β-cell proliferation. Altogether, our analysis provides a comprehensive understanding of cell fate acquisition in stem cell-derived islets and a framework for manipulating cell identities and maturity.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE202495 | GEO | 2023/03/02

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Pancreatic islet transplantation as a cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D) cannot be scaled up due to a scarcity of human pancreas donors. In vitro expansion of beta cells from mature human pancreatic islets provides an alternative source of insulin-producing cells. The exact nature of the expanded cells produced by diverse expansion protocols, and their potential for differentiation into functional beta cells, remain elusive. We performed a large-scale meta-analysis of gene expression in human pancreatic islet cells, which were processed using three different previously described protocols for expansion and attempted re-differentiation. All three expansion protocols induced dramatic changes in the expression profiles of pancreatic islets; many of these changes are shared among the three protocols. Attempts at re-differentiation of expanded cells induce a limited number of gene expression changes. Nevertheless, these fail to restore a pancreatic islet-like gene expression pattern. Comparison with a collection of public microarray datasets confirmed that expanded cells are highly comparable to mesenchymal stem cells. Genes induced in expanded cells are also enriched for targets of transcription factors important for pluripotency induction. The present data increases our understanding of the active pathways in expanded and re-differentiated islets. Knowledge of the mesenchymal stem cell potential may help development of drug therapeutics to restore beta cell mass in T1D patients. Experiment Overall Design: In this study, we have tested three different protocols to expand human pancreatic islets in monolayer and after attempted maneuvers to re-differentiate the expanded cells back to islets. We have characterized the resulting cells in detail by performing microarray analyses with fresh pancreatic islets, expanded islet cells and re-differentiated cells. Genes modified by either of three protocols have 70 to 80% overlap with the genes changed by the other two protocols. Although there are promising changes in the right direction, none of the three protocols could achieve a return to a functional islet state. The expanded cells highly resemble Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC), and similar gene regulatory networks seem to be active in both cell types. On the other hand, the expanded islet cells are different from MSC in that they seem to retain activity of some islet gene modules. The current results highlight the importance of designing new strategies that take into account the MSC potential of expanded cells.

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Improving stem cell-derived pancreatic islets using single-cell multiome-inferred regulomes [Childhood snATAC-seq]

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