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J Cell Sci ; 135(2)2022 01 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34982151

RESUMEN

Endothelial cells (ECs) are heterogeneous across and within tissues, reflecting distinct, specialised functions. EC heterogeneity has been proposed to underpin EC plasticity independently from vessel microenvironments. However, heterogeneity driven by contact-dependent or short-range cell-cell crosstalk cannot be evaluated with single cell transcriptomic approaches, as spatial and contextual information is lost. Nonetheless, quantification of EC heterogeneity and understanding of its molecular drivers is key to developing novel therapeutics for cancer, cardiovascular diseases and for revascularisation in regenerative medicine. Here, we developed an EC profiling tool (ECPT) to examine individual cells within intact monolayers. We used ECPT to characterise different phenotypes in arterial, venous and microvascular EC populations. In line with other studies, we measured heterogeneity in terms of cell cycle, proliferation, and junction organisation. ECPT uncovered a previously under-appreciated single-cell heterogeneity in NOTCH activation. We correlated cell proliferation with different NOTCH activation states at the single-cell and population levels. The positional and relational information extracted with our novel approach is key to elucidating the molecular mechanisms underpinning EC heterogeneity.


Asunto(s)
Células Endoteliales , Transcriptoma , Ciclo Celular , Proliferación Celular/genética , Fenotipo , Transcriptoma/genética
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J Proteome Res ; 21(3): 702-712, 2022 03 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34982937

RESUMEN

Typical protocols to differentiate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) imply complex strategies that include transfection with key hepatic transcription factors and the addition to culture media of nutrients, growth factors, and cytokines. A main constraint to evaluate the hepatic phenotype achieved arises from the way the grade of differentiation is determined. Currently, it relies on the assessment of the expression of a limited number of hepatic gene transcripts, less frequently by assessing certain hepatic metabolic functions, and rarely by the global metabolic performance of differentiated cells. We envisaged a new strategy to assess the extent of differentiation achieved, based on the analysis of the cellular metabolome along the differentiation process and its quantitative comparison with that of primary human hepatocytes (PHHs). To validate our approach, we examined the changes in the metabolome of three iPSC progenies (transfected with/without key transcription factors), cultured in three differentiation media, and compared them to PHHs. Results revealed consistent metabolome changes along differentiation and evidenced the factors that more strongly promote changes in the metabolome. The integrated dissimilarities between the PHHs and HLCs retrieved metabolomes were used as a numerical reference for quantifying the degree of iPSCs differentiation. This newly developed metabolome-analysis approach evidenced its utility in assisting us to select a cell's source, culture conditions, and differentiation media, to achieve better-differentiated HLCs.


Asunto(s)
Células Madre Pluripotentes Inducidas , Diferenciación Celular/genética , Cromatografía Líquida de Alta Presión , Cromatografía Liquida , Hepatocitos/metabolismo , Espectrometría de Masas en Tándem , Factores de Transcripción/metabolismo
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Lab Chip ; 23(4): 761-772, 2023 02 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36722906

RESUMEN

Creating vascularised cellular environments in vitro is a current challenge in tissue engineering and a bottleneck towards developing functional stem cell-derived microtissues for regenerative medicine and basic investigations. Here we have developed a new workflow to manufacture vasculature on chip (VoC) systems efficiently, quickly, and inexpensively. We have employed 3D printing for fast-prototyping of bespoke VoC and coupled them with a refined organotypic culture system (OVAA) to grow patent capillaries in vitro using tissue-specific endothelial and stromal cells. Furthermore, we have designed and implemented a pocket-size flow driver to establish physiologic perfusive flow throughout our VoC-OVAA with minimal medium use and waste. Using our platform, we have created vascularised microtissues and perfused them at physiologic flow rates for extended time (>2 weeks) observing flow-dependent vascular remodelling. Overall, we present for the first time a scalable and customisable system to grow vascularised and perfusable microtissues, a key initial step to grow mature and functional tissues in vitro. We envision that this technology will empower fast prototyping and validation of increasingly biomimetic in vitro systems, including interconnected multi-tissue systems.


Asunto(s)
Compuestos Orgánicos Volátiles , Ingeniería de Tejidos , Perfusión , Dispositivos Laboratorio en un Chip
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Biomaterials ; 276: 121006, 2021 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34304139

RESUMEN

Chronic liver injury, as observed in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), progressive fibrosis, and cirrhosis, remains poorly treatable. Steatohepatitis causes hepatocyte loss in part by a direct lipotoxic insult, which is amplified by derangements in the non-parenchymal cellular (NPC) interactive network wherein hepatocytes reside, including, hepatic stellate cells, liver sinusoidal endothelial cells and liver macrophages. To create an in vitro culture model encompassing all these cells, that allows studying liver steatosis, inflammation and fibrosis caused by NASH, we here developed a fully defined hydrogel microenvironment, termed hepatocyte maturation (HepMat) gel, that supports maturation and maintenance of pluripotent stem cell (PSC) derived hepatocyte- and NPC-like cells for at least one month. The HepMat-based co-culture system modeled key molecular and functional features of TGFß-induced liver fibrosis and fatty-acid induced inflammation and fibrosis better than monocultures of its constituent cell populations. The novel co-culture system should open new avenues for studying mechanisms underlying liver steatosis, inflammation and fibrosis as well as for assessing drugs counteracting these effects.


Asunto(s)
Enfermedad del Hígado Graso no Alcohólico , Células Madre Pluripotentes , Animales , Células Endoteliales , Fibrosis , Hepatocitos/patología , Hígado/patología , Cirrosis Hepática/patología , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL
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Nat Commun ; 11(1): 1393, 2020 03 13.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32170132

RESUMEN

Predicting drug-induced liver injury in a preclinical setting remains challenging, as cultured primary human hepatocytes (PHHs), pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs), and hepatoma cells exhibit poor drug biotransformation capacity. We here demonstrate that hepatic functionality depends more on cellular metabolism and extracellular nutrients than on developmental regulators. Specifically, we demonstrate that increasing extracellular amino acids beyond the nutritional need of HLCs and HepG2 cells induces glucose independence, mitochondrial function, and the acquisition of a transcriptional profile that is closer to PHHs. Moreover, we show that these high levels of amino acids are sufficient to drive HLC and HepG2 drug biotransformation and liver-toxin sensitivity to levels similar to those in PHHs. In conclusion, we provide data indicating that extracellular nutrient levels represent a major determinant of cellular maturity and can be utilized to guide stem cell differentiation to the hepatic lineage.


Asunto(s)
Aminoácidos/metabolismo , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/metabolismo , Sistema Enzimático del Citocromo P-450/metabolismo , Hepatocitos/metabolismo , Neoplasias Hepáticas/metabolismo , Diferenciación Celular/fisiología , Línea Celular Tumoral , Citocromo P-450 CYP3A , Femenino , Técnicas de Inactivación de Genes , Células Hep G2 , Factor Nuclear 1-alfa del Hepatocito , Factor Nuclear 3-gamma del Hepatocito , Ensayos Analíticos de Alto Rendimiento , Proteínas de Homeodominio , Humanos , Hígado , Masculino , Ingeniería Metabólica , Redes y Vías Metabólicas , Persona de Mediana Edad , Células Madre Pluripotentes , Células Madre , Transcriptoma , Proteínas Supresoras de Tumor
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