Project description:The use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is an exciting frontier in the study and treatment of human diseases through the generation of specific cell types. Here we show the derivation of iPSCs from human non-mobilized peripheral blood (PB) and bone marrow (BM) mononuclear cells (MNCs) by retroviral transduction of OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4 and c-MYC. The PB- and BM-derived iPSCs were indistinguishable from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) with respect to morphology, expression of surface antigens and pluripotency-associated transcription factors, global gene expression profiles and differentiation potential in vitro and in vivo. Infected PB and BM MNCs gave rise to iPSCs in the presence of several cytokines, although transduction efficiencies were not high. We found that 5×105 PB MNCs, which corresponds to less than 1 ml of PB, was enough for the generation of several iPSC colonies. Generation of iPSCs from MNCs of non-mobilized PB, with its relative efficiency and ease of harvesting, could enable the therapeutic use of patient-specific pluripotent stem cells.
Project description:Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology allows for the generation of patient-specific pluripotent stem cells, from somatic cell sources, thereby providing a novel cell therapy platform for severe degenerative diseases. One of the key issues for clinical-grade iPSC derivation is the accessibility of donor cells used for reprogramming and subsequent feasiblity of reprogramming into a pluripotent state. We used microarrays to detail the global gene expression profiles from blood cells. The use of blood cells allows for minimally invasive tissue procurement under GMP conditions and rapid cellular reprogramming, mobilized HPCs and unmobilized PBMCs would be ideal somatic cell sources for clinical-grade iPSC derivation. We examined the feasibility of reprogramming mobilized GMP-grade hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) and mononuclear myeloid cells and tested the pluripotency of derived iPS clones.
Project description:Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology allows for the generation of patient-specific pluripotent stem cells, from somatic cell sources, thereby providing a novel cell therapy platform for severe degenerative diseases. One of the key issues for clinical-grade iPSC derivation is the accessibility of donor cells used for reprogramming and subsequent feasiblity of reprogramming into a pluripotent state. We used microarrays to detail the global gene expression profiles from blood cells. The use of blood cells allows for minimally invasive tissue procurement under GMP conditions and rapid cellular reprogramming, mobilized HPCs and unmobilized PBMCs would be ideal somatic cell sources for clinical-grade iPSC derivation.
Project description:A variety of somatic cells can be reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), but the small number of CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) present in non-mobilized peripheral blood (PB) would be a convenient and desirable starting target. We report here a simple method for targeting derivation of iPSC from non-mobilized PB CD34+ HSCs using immunobead purification and 2-4 day culture to achieve enrichment of CD34+ HSCs to 80±9%, followed by reprogramming transduction with loxP-flanked polycistronic (Oct4, Klf4, Sox2, and c-Myc) STEMCCA-loxP lentivector at an MOI of 2. Our yield was 4.7±2.2 iPSC colonies (n=12) per 20 mL non-mobilized peripheral blood, where most colonies had single copy STEMCCA-loxP that was easily excised by transient transfection expression of Cre. Resultant iPSC clones expressed pluripotent cell markers, had genomic methylation pattern closely matching embryonic stem cells, and generated teratomas containing tissues of all three germ lineages in immunodeficient mice. Furthermore, we conclude that these iPSC are derived from the non-mobilized CD34+ HSCs enriched from PB rather than from any lymphocyte or monocyte contaminants because they lacked somatic rearrangements typical of T or B lymphocytes, and because we demonstrated that purified CD14+ monocytes do not yield iPSC colonies under these reprogramming conditions.
Project description:Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have been generated from mouse and human somatic cells by ectopic expression of the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, c-MYC as well as NANOG and LIN28. Here we report generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from human umbilical cord blood derived unrestricted somatic stem cells (USSC) using retroviral expression of the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and C-MYC and evaluation of their molecular signature and differentiation potential in comparison to human embryonic stem cells. The reprogrammed cells (HUiPS) were analysed morphologically, by qRT-PCR, global miRNA and epigenetic profiling and gene expression microarrays, as well as in their in vitro and in vivo differentiation potential by embryoid body formation and teratoma assay. The cord blood iPS cells are highly similar to human embryonic stem cells morphologically, at their molecular signature as well as in their in vitro and in vivo differentiation potential. Human cord blood derived unrestricted somatic stem cells offer an attractive source of cells for the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells. Our findings open novel perspectives to generate HLA matched pluripotent stem cell banks based on existing cord blood banks. Besides its obvious relevance of such a second generation cord blood iPS bank for pharmacological and toxicological testing, its application for autologous or allogenic regenerative cell transplantation appears feasible.
Project description:Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have been generated from mouse and human somatic cells by ectopic expression of the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, c-MYC as well as NANOG and LIN28. Here we report generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from human umbilical cord blood derived unrestricted somatic stem cells (USSC) using retroviral expression of the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and C-MYC and evaluation of their molecular signature and differentiation potential in comparison to human embryonic stem cells. The reprogrammed cells (HUiPS) were analysed morphologically, by qRT-PCR, global miRNA and epigenetic profiling and gene expression microarrays, as well as in their in vitro and in vivo differentiation potential by embryoid body formation and teratoma assay. The cord blood iPS cells are highly similar to human embryonic stem cells morphologically, at their molecular signature as well as in their in vitro and in vivo differentiation potential. Human cord blood derived unrestricted somatic stem cells offer an attractive source of cells for the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells. Our findings open novel perspectives to generate HLA matched pluripotent stem cell banks based on existing cord blood banks. Besides its obvious relevance of such a second generation cord blood iPS bank for pharmacological and toxicological testing, its application for autologous or allogenic regenerative cell transplantation appears feasible. For transcriptome profiling, 400 ng of total DNA-free RNA was used as input for labelled cRNA synthesis (Illumina TotalPrep RNA Amplification Kit - Ambion) following the manufacturer's instructions (IVT: 10h). Quality-checked cRNA samples were hybridized as biological or technical duplicates for 18 h onto HumanRef-8 v3 expression BeadChips (Illumina), washed, stained, and scanned following guidelines and using materials / instrumentation supplied / suggested by the manufacturer. Six sample types were analyzed, each one of them in duplicate. USSC: human umbilical cord blood unrestricted somatic stem cells (duplicates) HUiPS: human iPS cells from human umbilical cord blood USSC, hand-picked cols (duplicates) H9 hESC: H9 human ESCs grown on low-density CF1 MEFs (duplicates) H1 hESC: H1 human ESCs grown on low-density CF1 MEFs (duplicates) 1F hNiPS: One factor (Oct4) human iPS cells from hNSCs, hand-picked cols (duplicates) 2F hNiPS: Two factors (Oct4, Klf4) human iPS cells from hNSCs, hand-picked cols (duplicates)
Project description:αβT cell- and B cell-depleted HLA-haploidentical haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a life-saving therapeutic option to treat patients with high-risk leukemia. The G-CSF treatment stimulates mobilization from the bone marrow to blood of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), and this manipulated graft also contains mature donor-derived NK and γδT cells, both exerting graft-versus-leukemia activity and control of infections at early stages after transplantation. The G-CSF-induced mobilization in the donor causes relevant increases of different myeloid cells, including polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cells (PMN-MDSC). PMN-MDSC are present in high proportions in the graft and exert a sharp inhibition on the effector functions of co-infused mature NK cells. Conversely, low frequencies of PMN-MDSCs are detected in the blood of non-mobilized healthy donors. We used microarray technology to identify possible differences in the transcriptional programme of PMN-MDSCs isolated from blood of G-CSF mobilized donors as compared to those of non-mobilized healthy individuals.