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Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells
The cell adhesion microenvironment plays contributory roles in the induction of self-organized tissue formation and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). However, physical factors emanating from the adhesion microenvironment have been less investigated largely in part due to overreliance...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6481735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31069335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5072761 |
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author | Ando, Yuta Okeyo, Kennedy Omondi Adachi, Taiji |
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description | The cell adhesion microenvironment plays contributory roles in the induction of self-organized tissue formation and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). However, physical factors emanating from the adhesion microenvironment have been less investigated largely in part due to overreliance on biochemical approaches utilizing cytokines to drive in vitro developmental processes. Here, we report that a mesh culture technique can potentially induce mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) to self-organize and differentiate into cells expressing key signatures of primordial germ cells (PGCs) even with pluripotency maintained in the culture medium. Intriguingly, mESCs cultured on mesh substrates consisting of thin (5 μm-wide) strands and considerably large (200 μm-wide) openings which were set suspended in order to minimize the cell-substrate adhesion area, self-organized into cell sheets relying solely on cell-cell interactions to fill the large mesh openings by Day 2, and further into dome-shaped features around Day 6. Characterization using microarray analysis and immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that sheet-forming cells exhibited differential gene expressions related to PGCs as early as Day 2, but not other lineages such as epiblast, primitive endoderm, and trophectoderm, implying that the initial interaction with the mesh microenvironment and subsequent self-organization into cells sheets might have triggered PGC-like differentiation to occur differently from the previously reported pathway via epiblast-like differentiation. Overall, considering that the observed differentiation occurred without addition of known biochemical inducers, this study highlights that bioengineering techniques for modulating the adhesion microenvironment alone can be harnessed to coax PSCs to self-organize and differentiate, in this case, to a PGC-like state. |
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spelling | pubmed-64817352019-05-08 Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells Ando, Yuta Okeyo, Kennedy Omondi Adachi, Taiji APL Bioeng Articles The cell adhesion microenvironment plays contributory roles in the induction of self-organized tissue formation and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). However, physical factors emanating from the adhesion microenvironment have been less investigated largely in part due to overreliance on biochemical approaches utilizing cytokines to drive in vitro developmental processes. Here, we report that a mesh culture technique can potentially induce mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) to self-organize and differentiate into cells expressing key signatures of primordial germ cells (PGCs) even with pluripotency maintained in the culture medium. Intriguingly, mESCs cultured on mesh substrates consisting of thin (5 μm-wide) strands and considerably large (200 μm-wide) openings which were set suspended in order to minimize the cell-substrate adhesion area, self-organized into cell sheets relying solely on cell-cell interactions to fill the large mesh openings by Day 2, and further into dome-shaped features around Day 6. Characterization using microarray analysis and immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that sheet-forming cells exhibited differential gene expressions related to PGCs as early as Day 2, but not other lineages such as epiblast, primitive endoderm, and trophectoderm, implying that the initial interaction with the mesh microenvironment and subsequent self-organization into cells sheets might have triggered PGC-like differentiation to occur differently from the previously reported pathway via epiblast-like differentiation. Overall, considering that the observed differentiation occurred without addition of known biochemical inducers, this study highlights that bioengineering techniques for modulating the adhesion microenvironment alone can be harnessed to coax PSCs to self-organize and differentiate, in this case, to a PGC-like state. AIP Publishing LLC 2019-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6481735/ /pubmed/31069335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5072761 Text en © 2019 Author(s). 2473-2877/2019/3(1)/016102/8 All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Articles Ando, Yuta Okeyo, Kennedy Omondi Adachi, Taiji Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells |
title | Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells |
title_full | Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells |
title_fullStr | Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells |
title_short | Modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse ES cells |
title_sort | modulation of adhesion microenvironment using mesh substrates triggers self-organization and primordial germ cell-like differentiation in mouse es cells |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6481735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31069335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5072761 |
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