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Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells
BACKGROUND: Hepatocyte-like cells (iHEPs) generated by transcription factor-mediated direct reprogramming of somatic cells have been studied as potential cell sources for the development of novel therapies targeting liver diseases. The mechanisms involved in direct reprogramming, stability after lon...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32276654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13287-020-01665-z |
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author | Orge, Iasmim Diniz Gadd, Victoria L. Barouh, Judah Leão Rossi, Erik Aranha Carvalho, Rejane Hughes Smith, Ian Allahdadi, Kyan James Paredes, Bruno Diaz Silva, Daniela Nascimento Damasceno, Patrícia Kauanna F. Sampaio, Gabriela Louise Forbes, Stuart J. Soares, Milena Botelho Pereira Souza, Bruno Solano de Freitas |
author_facet | Orge, Iasmim Diniz Gadd, Victoria L. Barouh, Judah Leão Rossi, Erik Aranha Carvalho, Rejane Hughes Smith, Ian Allahdadi, Kyan James Paredes, Bruno Diaz Silva, Daniela Nascimento Damasceno, Patrícia Kauanna F. Sampaio, Gabriela Louise Forbes, Stuart J. Soares, Milena Botelho Pereira Souza, Bruno Solano de Freitas |
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description | BACKGROUND: Hepatocyte-like cells (iHEPs) generated by transcription factor-mediated direct reprogramming of somatic cells have been studied as potential cell sources for the development of novel therapies targeting liver diseases. The mechanisms involved in direct reprogramming, stability after long-term in vitro expansion, and safety profile of reprogrammed cells in different experimental models, however, still require further investigation. METHODS: iHEPs were generated by forced expression of Foxa2/Hnf4a in mouse mesenchymal stromal cells and characterized their phenotype stability by in vitro and in vivo analyses. RESULTS: The iHEPs expressed mixed hepatocyte and liver progenitor cell markers, were highly proliferative, and presented metabolic activities in functional assays. A progressive loss of hepatic phenotype, however, was observed after several passages, leading to an increase in alpha-SMA(+) fibroblast-like cells, which could be distinguished and sorted from iHEPs by differential mitochondrial content. The resulting purified iHEPs proliferated, maintained liver progenitor cell markers, and, upon stimulation with lineage maturation media, increased expression of either biliary or hepatocyte markers. In vivo functionality was assessed in independent pre-clinical mouse models. Minimal engraftment was observed following transplantation in mice with acute acetaminophen-induced liver injury. In contrast, upon transplantation in a transgenic mouse model presenting host hepatocyte senescence, widespread engraftment and uncontrolled proliferation of iHEPs was observed, forming islands of epithelial-like cells, adipocyte-like cells, or cells presenting both morphologies. CONCLUSION: The results have significant implications for cell reprogramming, suggesting that iHEPs generated by Foxa2/Hnf4a expression have an unstable phenotype and depend on transgene expression for maintenance of hepatocyte-like characteristics, showing a tendency to return to the mesenchymal phenotype of origin and a compromised safety profile. |
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spelling | pubmed-73236142020-06-30 Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells Orge, Iasmim Diniz Gadd, Victoria L. Barouh, Judah Leão Rossi, Erik Aranha Carvalho, Rejane Hughes Smith, Ian Allahdadi, Kyan James Paredes, Bruno Diaz Silva, Daniela Nascimento Damasceno, Patrícia Kauanna F. Sampaio, Gabriela Louise Forbes, Stuart J. Soares, Milena Botelho Pereira Souza, Bruno Solano de Freitas Stem Cell Res Ther Research BACKGROUND: Hepatocyte-like cells (iHEPs) generated by transcription factor-mediated direct reprogramming of somatic cells have been studied as potential cell sources for the development of novel therapies targeting liver diseases. The mechanisms involved in direct reprogramming, stability after long-term in vitro expansion, and safety profile of reprogrammed cells in different experimental models, however, still require further investigation. METHODS: iHEPs were generated by forced expression of Foxa2/Hnf4a in mouse mesenchymal stromal cells and characterized their phenotype stability by in vitro and in vivo analyses. RESULTS: The iHEPs expressed mixed hepatocyte and liver progenitor cell markers, were highly proliferative, and presented metabolic activities in functional assays. A progressive loss of hepatic phenotype, however, was observed after several passages, leading to an increase in alpha-SMA(+) fibroblast-like cells, which could be distinguished and sorted from iHEPs by differential mitochondrial content. The resulting purified iHEPs proliferated, maintained liver progenitor cell markers, and, upon stimulation with lineage maturation media, increased expression of either biliary or hepatocyte markers. In vivo functionality was assessed in independent pre-clinical mouse models. Minimal engraftment was observed following transplantation in mice with acute acetaminophen-induced liver injury. In contrast, upon transplantation in a transgenic mouse model presenting host hepatocyte senescence, widespread engraftment and uncontrolled proliferation of iHEPs was observed, forming islands of epithelial-like cells, adipocyte-like cells, or cells presenting both morphologies. CONCLUSION: The results have significant implications for cell reprogramming, suggesting that iHEPs generated by Foxa2/Hnf4a expression have an unstable phenotype and depend on transgene expression for maintenance of hepatocyte-like characteristics, showing a tendency to return to the mesenchymal phenotype of origin and a compromised safety profile. BioMed Central 2020-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7323614/ /pubmed/32276654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13287-020-01665-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Orge, Iasmim Diniz Gadd, Victoria L. Barouh, Judah Leão Rossi, Erik Aranha Carvalho, Rejane Hughes Smith, Ian Allahdadi, Kyan James Paredes, Bruno Diaz Silva, Daniela Nascimento Damasceno, Patrícia Kauanna F. Sampaio, Gabriela Louise Forbes, Stuart J. Soares, Milena Botelho Pereira Souza, Bruno Solano de Freitas Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells |
title | Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells |
title_full | Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells |
title_fullStr | Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells |
title_short | Phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells |
title_sort | phenotype instability of hepatocyte-like cells produced by direct reprogramming of mesenchymal stromal cells |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32276654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13287-020-01665-z |
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