诱导性多潜能干细胞(iPS cells)——现状及前景展望

主要从 iPS细胞发展历程、获得 iPS细胞的几个关键步骤 (如基因导入方式、诱导 iPS细胞所需因子组合与小分子化合物运用和体细胞种类选择等)、病人或疾病特异性 iPS细胞、iPS细胞体内外诱导分化与其衍生物的临床应用和制备无遗传修饰的(genetic modification-free) iPS细胞的可行性与前景等方面对 iPS细胞最新研究进展做评述．日本和美国研究小组先后用4种基因将小鼠(2006年8月)和人(2007年11～12月)的体细胞在体外重编程为诱导性多潜能干细胞(induced pluripotent stem cells,iPS cells),此后在短短两年多时间内,iPS 细胞的研究和关注度呈爆炸式增长．体细胞重编程、去分化和多潜能干细胞来源等一系列热点问题再次成为干细胞和发育生物学等研究的热点和焦点．与胚胎干细胞(embryonic stem cells,ES cells)一样,iPS细胞在体内可分化为3个胚层来源的所有细胞,进而参与形成机体所有组织和器官．迄今,在体外已由 iPS细胞定向诱导分化出功能性的多种成熟细胞．因此,iPS细胞研究不仅具有重要理论意义,而且在再生医学、组织工程和药物发现与评价等方面极具应用价值．     

Amoeboid Chemotaxis: Future Challenges and Opportunities

Chemotaxis is the directed movement of a cell towards a gradient of chemicals such as chemokines or growth factors. This phenomenon can be studied in organisms ranging from bacteria to mammalian cells, and here we will focus on eukaryotic amoeboid chemotaxis. Chemotactic responses are mediated by two major classes of receptors: GPCR''s and RTK''s, with multiple pathways signaling downstream of them, certain ones functioning in parallel. In this review we address two important features of amoeboid chemotaxis that will be important for further advances in the field. First, the application of in vivo imaging will be critical for providing insight into the functional requirements for chemotactic responses. We will briefly cover a number of systems in which in vivo imaging is providing new insights. Second, due to the network-type design of signaling pathways of eukaryotic chemotaxis, more refined phenotypic analysis will be necessary, and we will discuss recent analyses of the role of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase pathway in this light. We will close with some speculations regarding future applications of more detailed in vivo analysis and mechanistic understanding of eukaryotic amoeboid chemotaxis.Key Words: chemotaxis, signaling, in vivo models, development, phospholipase, phosphoinositide 3-kinase     

诱导多功能干细胞的影响因素

将体细胞诱导为多功能干细胞为人类的再生医学提供了一个全新的研究手段,从而可以不用损坏胚胎就能获得可用于治疗各种特殊疾病的细胞。本文比较了近年来关于生成诱导性多能干细胞(induced pluripotent stem cells,iPS细胞)的诱导方法及重编程效率,总结了这些方法的共同点;另外通过对每个不同试验过程的影响因素进行比较,归纳了影响iPS细胞重编程过程的几个因素。     

Disease Biomarkers for Precision Medicine: Challenges and Future Opportunities

<正>Most of the human diseases are complex diseases,which could be caused by many genetic pathways.This means that for a given phenotype(i.e.,a complex disease),there are multiple potential genes which could be genomically or epigenetically changed(i.e.,mutations,copy number variations,epigenetic modifications,and so on).Therefore,it is understandable that different individuals who share the same phenotype/diseases may have different causal genes and thus,may have different drug targets.For example,mutated genes are rarely common between the cancer patients of the same cancer type[1];furthermore,for a given drug,only 10%-30% of the patients     

Integration-free Methods for Generating Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Induced pluripotent stem （iPS） cells by exogenous expression of four factors, Oct4, can be generated from mouse or human fibroblasts Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc, and hold great potential for transplantation therapies and regenerative medicine. However, use of retroviral vectors during iPS cell generation has limited the techniques clinical application due to the potential risks resulting from genome integration of transgenes, including insertional mutations and altered differentiation potentials of the target cells, which may lead to pathologies such as tumorigenesis. Here we review recent progress in generating safer transgene-free or integration-free iPS cells, including the use of non-integrating vectors, excision of vectors after integration, DNA-free delivery of factors and chemical induction of pluripotency.     

诱导多能干细胞的研究进展

体细胞诱导成为多能性干细胞(induced pluripotent stem cell,iPS cell)的研究成果被国际生命科学界誉为具有里程碑意义的创新之举.在短短3年多的时间里,这项研究已经在细胞重编程的机理研究、探索疾病的发生发展机制以及临床医学的应用等领域引发了很多突破性的进展,而且,这一非克隆干细胞技术的诞生,成功地避开了长期以来争论不休的伦理问题,极大地推动该领域和相关科学领域的发展.从iPS细胞的研究历程、iPS细胞的构建机理、iPS细胞研究的最新应用成果以及iPS细胞的发展前景和研究方向等方面进行了评.     

猪多能性干细胞研究进展与前瞻

多能干细胞具有能够分化为多种特定细胞类型的能力,主要包括胚胎干细胞、胚胎生殖细胞和诱导多能干细胞。猪因其在免疫学、形态学和生理结构上与人有着诸多类似的特点,正逐渐成为人类异种移植、细胞治疗和再生医学研究的理想生物学模型。然而,目前对猪多能干细胞的来源、特征及机制认识的不足直接阻碍了该研究领域的发展。因此,将对猪多能性干细胞的种类、鉴定标准、研究进展、亟待解决的问题进行详细地阐述,并在此基础上对猪多能性干细胞的研究进行了展望,希望为该研究领域的科研人员提供参考。     

Pluripotency of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Induced pluripotent stem （iPS） cells can be generated by forced expression of four pluripotency factors in somatic cells. This has received much attention in recent years since it may offer us a promising donor cell source for cell transplantation therapy. There has been great progress in iPS cell research in the past few years. However, several issues need to be further addressed in the near future before the clinical application of iPS cells, like the immunogenieity of iPS cells, the variability of differentiation potential and most importantly tumor formation of the iPS derivative cells. Here, we review recent progress in research into the pluripotency of iPS cells.     

我国诱导多能干细胞研究进展

关于细胞重编程问题的探讨可以追溯至20世纪30年代。从汉斯·斯佩曼提出"胚胎诱导"概念开始,到20世纪60年代,约翰·戈登成功获得了经过体细胞核移植发育而来的爪蟾,再到1996年世界首例克隆哺乳动物克隆羊"多莉"的诞生,生物学家终于证实了高等动物的体细胞核能够通过核移植的方式重新建立多能性,但这一方法面临着很多社会伦理学问题,无法应用于医学实践。直到2006年Yamanaka小组诱导多能干细胞(Induced pluripotent stem cells,i PS细胞),成功地绕过了这些伦理问题,诱导重编程才成为了当今干细胞生物学最为热门的研究方向。在诱导多能干细胞领域,我国一直位居世界前列,近年来更是在i PS技术的优化、机制研究和应用研究等方面作出了令世界瞩目的贡献,就这几方面做一综述。     

诱导多潜能干细胞(iPSCs)的研究与应用进展

诱导多潜能干细胞(induced pluripotent stem cells,iPSCs)是体细胞在外源因子作用下,经直接细胞核程序重整而重新获得多潜能的干细胞.iPSCs在疾病的模型建立与机理研究、细胞治疗、药物的发现与评价等方面有着巨大的潜在应用价值.在过去几年中,科学家们致力于改进体细胞重编程技术并取得许多突破.然而,为实现其在临床上的应用,必须克服体细胞重编程效率低和iPSCs成瘤风险两大挑战,而且重编程机制有待进一步阐明.结合iPSCs最新研究成果,评述了有关领域国内外研究进展,重点讨论当前存在问题,并展望未来研究方向.     

Transfecting and Nucleofecting Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Genetic modification is continuing to be an essential tool in studying stem cell biology and in setting forth potential clinical applications of human embryonic stem cells (HESCs)¹. While improvements in several gene delivery methods have been described^2-9, transfection remains a capricious process for HESCs, and has not yet been reported in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In this video, we demonstrate how our lab routinely transfects and nucleofects human iPSCs using plasmid with an enhanced green fluorescence protein (eGFP) reporter. Human iPSCs are adapted and maintained as feeder-free cultures to eliminate the possibility of feeder cell transfection and to allow efficient selection of stable transgenic iPSC clones following transfection. For nucleofection, human iPSCs are pre-treated with ROCK inhibitor¹¹, trypsinized into small clumps of cells, nucleofected and replated on feeders in feeder cell-conditioned medium to enhance cell recovery. Transgene-expressing human iPSCs can be obtained after 6 hours. Antibiotic selection is applied after 24 hours and stable transgenic lines appear within 1 week. Our protocol is robust and reproducible for human iPSC lines without altering pluripotency of these cells.     

诱导性多能干细胞与肝样细胞分化

肝脏疾病正逐渐成为全球棘手的医疗问题。肝细胞是肝脏生理活动的主要承担者,在肝脏疾病的研究以及药物的研发和测试方面有着举足轻重的作用。然而,体外分离培养的原代肝细胞面临在体外不能无限增殖和稳定表达肝脏特异基因等问题。有强大的自我更新能力和三胚层分化潜能的诱导性多能肝细胞(iPSCs)能被诱导因子、外源基因和小分子化合物等定向诱导分化为功能性肝细胞。同时,还避免了伦理、宗教以及免疫排斥等诸多问题。本文简要综述了从不同策略诱导iPSCs成为功能性肝细胞的研究方法和成果,并对该领域进行小结和展望。     

基于诱导性多潜能干细胞的亨廷顿舞蹈病发病机制研究

目的:基于诱导性多潜能干细胞(induced pluripotent stem cells,i PSC)多潜能性的特点将亨廷顿舞蹈病(Huntington disease,HD)患者和正常人特异性i PSC定向诱导分化成运动神经元,并在运动神经元的基础上探讨HD的发病机制。方法:将HD患者和正常人的i PS细胞在特定的生长因子和神经因子的作用下定向诱导分化成运动神经元。然后用免疫荧光染色检测运动神经元特异性标记物HB9和ISL1的表达。以DCFH-DA和JC-1为荧光探针,利用流式分析法分别对正常人和HD患者运动神经元细胞活性氧和线粒体膜电位进行检测。结果:经过25天诱导分化成功得到HD患者和正常人的运动神经元,并且免疫荧光染色显示,βIII-微管蛋白阳性的神经细胞同时表达运动神经元特异性的标志物HB9和ISL1。此外,经实验统计发现HD患者运动神经元细胞内代表活性氧水平的荧光强度(4704.33±390.50)较正常组(2840.33±166.20)有明显增强(P=0.002),而且代表线粒体膜电位红绿荧光强度比(2.74±0.13)较正常组(3.97±0.29)相比有明显降低(P=0.03)。结论:HD患者特异性i PSC能够诱导分化成运动神经元,为实验提供研究模型。HD的发病与运动神经元细胞线粒体功能障碍有关。     

诱导性多能干细胞的研究进展及其在再生医学上的应用

通过特定转录因子的过表达使体细胞重编程为诱导性多能干细胞(induced pluripotent stem cells,iPS细胞),这一成果引起了整个生命科学领域的广泛关注.由于iPS细胞不仅具有与人类胚胎干细胞(embryonicstem cell,ES细胞)相似的基本特征,而且与ES细胞相比,不存在免疫排斥和伦理道德问题,因此,具有重要的临床应用潜能.目前,iPS细胞主要用于细胞分化和移植,并可提供体外的疾病模型,以便于研究疾病形成的机制、筛选新药以及开发新的治疗方法.从iPS细胞的产生、诱导方法、生物学特征和在再生医学中的应用作以综述.     

不同组织来源的细胞建立诱导多能干细胞系的研究

目的:比较不同组织来源的细胞生成iPS细胞的效率,获得高效制备iPS细胞的组织类型.方法:通过四种逆转录病毒(OCT4/SOX2/KLF4/c-MYC)转染羊水细胞、绒毛细胞和皮肤成纤维细胞,建立不同组织来源的iPS细胞系.结果:我们建立了羊水、绒毛细胞和皮肤细胞三个不同组织来源的iPS细胞系,并对其多能性基因Oct4、Nanog以及分子表面标记Tra-1.60以及体外分化为三个胚层能力进行鉴定,发现利用羊水细胞建立iPS细胞的效率显著高于绒毛细胞和皮肤细胞.结论:羊水细胞可能是制备iPS细胞的理想细胞类型.     

Efficient Generation Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Somatic Cells with Sendai-virus

A few years ago, the establishment of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) ushered in a new era in biomedicine. Potential uses of human iPSCs include modeling pathogenesis of human genetic diseases, autologous cell therapy after gene correction, and personalized drug screening by providing a source of patient-specific and symptom relevant cells. However, there are several hurdles to overcome, such as eliminating the remaining reprogramming factor transgene expression after human iPSCs production. More importantly, residual transgene expression in undifferentiated human iPSCs could hamper proper differentiations and misguide the interpretation of disease-relevant in vitro phenotypes. With this reason, integration-free and/or transgene-free human iPSCs have been developed using several methods, such as adenovirus, the piggyBac system, minicircle vector, episomal vectors, direct protein delivery and synthesized mRNA. However, efficiency of reprogramming using integration-free methods is quite low in most cases.Here, we present a method to isolate human iPSCs by using Sendai-virus (RNA virus) based reprogramming system. This reprogramming method shows consistent results and high efficiency in cost-effective manner.     

Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells on Autologous Feeders

Background

For therapeutic usage of induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells, to accomplish xeno-free culture is critical. Previous reports have shown that human embryonic stem (ES) cells can be maintained in feeder-free condition. However, absence of feeder cells can be a hostile environment for pluripotent cells and often results in karyotype abnormalities. Instead of animal feeders, human fibroblasts can be used as feeder cells of human ES cells. However, one still has to be concerned about the existence of unidentified pathogens, such as viruses and prions in these non-autologous feeders.

Methodology/Principal Findings

This report demonstrates that human induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells can be established and maintained on isogenic parental feeder cells. We tested four independent human skin fibroblasts for the potential to maintain self-renewal of iPS cells. All the fibroblasts tested, as well as their conditioned medium, were capable of maintaining the undifferentiated state and normal karyotypes of iPS cells. Furthermore, human iPS cells can be generated on isogenic parental fibroblasts as feeders. These iPS cells carried on proliferation over 19 passages with undifferentiated morphologies. They expressed undifferentiated pluripotent cell markers, and could differentiate into all three germ layers via embryoid body and teratoma formation.

Conclusions/Significance

These results suggest that autologous fibroblasts can be not only a source for iPS cells but also be feeder layers. Our results provide a possibility to solve the dilemma by using isogenic fibroblasts as feeder layers of iPS cells. This is an important step toward the establishment of clinical grade iPS cells.     

体细胞重编程为诱导多能干细胞

诱导多功能性干细胞（induced pluripotent stem cells,iPS细胞）是通过导入特定的转录因子（如Oct3/4、Sox2、c-Myc和Klf4等）将体细胞诱导重编程为多能性干细胞,其功能与胚胎干细胞相似.iPS细胞的建立,在生命科学领域引起了新的轰动.目前,iPS细胞的研究领域在转录因子的优化、iPS细胞的筛选、载体的运用、体细胞种类的选择和iPS细胞的应用等方面取得突破进展,但仍然存在致癌性、效率低等一系列急需解决的问题.