Project description:Although reported more than once, the generation of pluripotent stem cell populations from human testis remains questionable. We recently showed that the so - called human adult germline stem cells (haGSCs), which were claimed to be pluripotent, showed a gene expression profile comparable to human fibroblasts, suggesting that these cells are originated from a fibroblastic cells. We could derive human testicular fibroblast cells (hTFCs) from several routine testicular biopsies, naming them human testicular fibroblastic cells (hTFCs). The true conversion of unipotent mouse GSCs, also known as spermatogonial stem cells into pluripotent stem cells was recently shown. However, this conversion was not observed for human cells so far. We suggest that hTFCs isolated from routine biopsies can help in the understanding, modeling and also regenerative medicine for various diseases after reprogramming them to human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). We successfully reprogrammed hTFCs into human iPS cells by transducing them retrovirally with reprogramming factors as already demonstrated for human dermal fibroblasts. These hTFCs derived iPS cells are comparable with human embryonic stem cells from global gene expression, promoter methylation, and they show pluripotency judged by in vitro and in vivo differentiation. 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: 12h). Quality-checked cRNA samples were hybridized as biological or technical duplicates for 18 h onto human-8 v3 expression BeadChips (Illumina), washed, stained, and scanned following guidelines and using materials/instrumentation supplied/suggested by the manufacturer. 8 samples were analyzed: NCL: NCL3 hESCs grown on feeders, bulk harvest at semi-sub confluence (1 replicate) HuES6: HuES6 hESCs grown on feeders, bulk harvest at semi-sub confluence (1 replicate) HT3: Human fibroblast-like testis cells, line 3 (1 replicate) HT16: Human fibroblast-like testis cells, line 16 (1 replicate) FS: FS human foreskin fibroblasts (1 replicate) BJ: BJ human fibroblasts (1 replicate) iPS3: hiPSC line 2 derived from HT3 (1 replicate) iPS16: hiPSC line 2 derived from HT16 (1 replicate)
Project description:Although reported more than once, the generation of pluripotent stem cell populations from human testis remains questionable. We recently showed that the so - called human adult germline stem cells (haGSCs), which were claimed to be pluripotent, showed a gene expression profile comparable to human fibroblasts, suggesting that these cells are originated from a fibroblastic cells. We could derive human testicular fibroblast cells (hTFCs) from several routine testicular biopsies, naming them human testicular fibroblastic cells (hTFCs). The true conversion of unipotent mouse GSCs, also known as spermatogonial stem cells into pluripotent stem cells was recently shown. However, this conversion was not observed for human cells so far. We suggest that hTFCs isolated from routine biopsies can help in the understanding, modeling and also regenerative medicine for various diseases after reprogramming them to human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). We successfully reprogrammed hTFCs into human iPS cells by transducing them retrovirally with reprogramming factors as already demonstrated for human dermal fibroblasts. These hTFCs derived iPS cells are comparable with human embryonic stem cells from global gene expression, promoter methylation, and they show pluripotency judged by in vitro and in vivo differentiation.
Project description:In regenerative medicine, histocompatibility of pluripotent stem cells is required to solve the problem of immunorejection after therapeutic transplantation. In this study, we show that autologous germline stem cells (GSCs), often called spermatogonial stem cells, could be derived by testis biopsy from individual mice and that GSCs subsequently could be dedifferentiated into autologous germline-derived pluripotent stem (gPS) cells. The establishment of GSCs by testicular biopsy in the mouse model can prove the principle of human clinical application to derive autologous GSCs to generate patient-specific pluripotent cells for regenerative medicine.
Project description:There are a total of four samples each for this analysis. Each sample consists of the cells grown on three 10 cm culture plates. Each plate should have 2x106 cells for a total of 6x106 cells per sample when all three plates are combined. The first sample is undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells, the second sample is human glutamatergic neurons derived from those human embryonic stem cells, the third sample is undifferentiated human induced pluripotent stem cells and the fourth sample is human glutamatergic neurons derived from those human induced pluripotent stem cells.
Project description:Comparison of whole genome gene expression profiles of human testis derived ES-like cells with pluripotent stem cells (human embryonic stem cell lines), adult human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells and human dermal fibroblasts.
Project description:In regenerative medicine, histocompatibility of pluripotent stem cells is required to solve the problem of immunorejection after therapeutic transplantation. In this study, we show that autologous germline stem cells (GSCs), often called spermatogonial stem cells, could be derived by testis biopsy from individual mice and that GSCs subsequently could be dedifferentiated into autologous germline-derived pluripotent stem (gPS) cells. The establishment of GSCs by testicular biopsy in the mouse model can prove the principle of human clinical application to derive autologous GSCs to generate patient-specific pluripotent cells for regenerative medicine. 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: 12h). Quality-checked cRNA samples were hybridized as biological or technical duplicates for 18 h onto mouse-8 v2 expression BeadChips (Illumina), washed, stained, and scanned following guidelines and using materials / instrumentation supplied / suggested by the manufacturer 13 samples were analyzed, GSC1: Mouse Germ Stem Cells OG2, line 1 (1 replicate); GSC2: Mouse Germ Stem Cells OG2, line 2 (1 replicate); GSC3: Mouse Germ Stem Cells OG2, line 3 (1 replicate); GSCr1: Mouse Germ Stem Cells OG2-ROSA, line 1 (1 replicate); GSCr2: Mouse Germ Stem Cells OG2-ROSA, line 2 (2 replicate); GSCr3: Mouse Germ Stem Cells OG2-ROSA, line 3 (1 replicate); ESC: Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells (duplicate) gPS1: Mouse clonal germ Pluripotent Stem cells from OG2, line 1, (1 replicate); gPS2: Mouse clonal germ Pluripotent Stem cells from OG2, line 2, (1 replicate); gPS3: Mouse clonal germ Pluripotent Stem cells from OG2, line 3, (1 replicate); gPSr1: Mouse clonal germ Pluripotent Stem cells from OG2-ROSA, line 1, (1 replicate); gPSr2: Mouse clonal germ Pluripotent Stem cells from OG2-ROSA, line 2, (1 replicate); gPSr3: Mouse clonal germ Pluripotent Stem cells from OG2-ROSA, line 3, (1 replicate).