Project description:The treatment of bone defects caused by infection, trauma or neoplasms remains a clinical challenge. Autologous bone transplantation is limited by availability, donor site morbidity and surgical risk factors. This has given rise to stromal/stem-cell based therapy. Bone marrow derived stromal cells (BMSCs) have been studied to a large extent and show high regenerative potential but their use is limited by availability, donor site morbidity and the relatively low cell yield as they represent only <0.1% of cell harvested from bone marrow aspirate. At the same time, they are the closest mesenchymal stromal cells for bone tissue engineering given their tissue origin and, unlike other mesenchymal stromal cells, can support the formation of hematopoietic marrow. Adipose tissue derived stromal cells (ASCs) as part of the stromal vascular fraction of adipose tissue can as well undergo osteogenic differentiation but can be additionally isolated in a sufficient quantity from lipoaspirate after liposuction of abundant subcutaneous fat tissue. Here, it has been shown that there are no major differences in regard to proliferation or differentiation capacity of ASCs derived from subcutaneous fat of different anatomical regions. It has been shown that BMSCs are more prone to senescence during expansion and passage than ASCs and that ageing impacts proliferative capabilities of BMSCs more than that of ASCs while it has also been reported that osteogenic differentiation capacity is least impacted by age. Multiple studies have compared the characteristics of these two mesenchymal stromal cells in regard to bone tissue engineering in vitro. Most studies point to inferior extracellular matrix mineralization and lower expression of key osteogenic transcription markers like Runx2 in osteogenic differentiated ASCs compared to BMSCs. On the other hand, a study by Rath et al. found contrary results using particular culturing conditions like 3D bioglass scaffolds. An intraindividual comparison of human MSCs of three donors cultured on decellularized porcine bone confirmed superior osteogenic capacity of BMSCs compared to ASCs. In contrast to BMSCs, ASCs were not able to induce heterogenic ossification in a mouse model. In a sheep tibia defect model application of BMSCs resulted in a significantly higher amount of newly formed bone tissue. Importantly, Osteogenic differentiated ASCs do not support the formation of a hematopoietic marrow. Proteomics enables large-scale analysis of proteins present in a cell type and can be used to identify differentially regulated key proteins in a comparative approach. A comparative proteomic analysis of BMSCs and ASCs by Roche et al. in 2009 identified 556 proteins with 78% of these not being differentially regulated between these two cell populations, regarded as high similarity. Another comparative proteomic study of 2016 by Jeon et al. found 90 differentially regulated proteins out of 3000 total identified proteins. Both studies do not specify a number of different tissue donors and in part using cell lines. Looking for differences upon osteogenic differentiation, transcriptomic comparison of osteogenic differentiated porcine ASCs and BMSCs has been performed, resulting in 21 differentially expressed genes after 21 days of osteogenic culture conditions. Still, it remains unanswered, which are the key distinctive features of osteogenic differentiated ASCs and BMSCs at protein level that might help address the abovementioned weaknesses of ASCs in bone tissue engineering/regeneration for translational research. To overcome this need, an intraindividual comparative DIA based proteomic analysis of osteogenic differentiated human BMSC and ASCs was performed in this study.
Project description:Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) provide hematopoietic support, immunoregulation and contain a stem cell fraction capable of skeletogenic differentiation. A heterogeneous population of primary bone marrow BMSCs were isolated from a single human donor (FH181), and a lentiviral expression system was used to overexpress human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) and generate single cell-derived immortalised BMSC lines for multi-level analysis of functional markers for BMSC subsets. All clones expressed typical BMSC cell surface antigens, however clones Y101 and Y201 displayed typical BMSC tri-lineage differentiation capacity where clones Y102 and Y202 lacked significant tri-lineage differentiation potential. High quality RNA samples were isolated from all lines, and global gene expression analysis was performed in triplicate arrays (using Agilent SurePrint G3 Human Gene Expression 8x60K v2 Microarrays) in order to identify distinguishing characteristics of these lines, compared to the parental primary BMSCs from which they were derived.
Project description:The origin of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) is not completely understood. We have identified a rare population of cells with a transcriptional profile consistent with endothelial to mesenchymal transition (Endo-MT) in human fetal development. Therefore, we hypothesized that Endo-MT contributes to bone marrow niche formation in mammals. Here, we sought to determine whether Endo-MT cells could be identified in murine bone marrow during embryonic development. We isolated bone marrow and collagenased bone fraction from long bones of 9 fetuses at embryonic day 17 (E17) and FACS purified endothelial cells and BMSCs for single cell RNA sequencing.
Project description:Osteoradionecrosis of the jaw (ORNJ) is a complication after head and neck radiotherapy that severely affects patients’ quality of life. Currently, an overall understanding of microenvironmental factors of ORNJ is still lacking. Here, we reveal the activation of taurine metabolism in irradiated mandibular stromal cells with scRNA-Seq and the decrease of taurine in irradiated bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSCs) with metabolomics. Compared to the unirradiated BMSCs, the taurine uptake of irradiated BMSCs increases. The taurine concentration in peripheral blood and jaws of irradiated mice are significantly lower than the unirradiated mice. Supplementation of taurine promotes osteogenic differentiation, decreases oxidative stress and DNA damage of irradiated BMSCs. Oral administration of taurine significantly promotes survival rate of irradiated mice and promotes osteogenesis of irradiated jaws. Our study sheds light on the role of taurine during the recovery of radiation-induced jaw injury, suggesting a potential non-invasive therapeutic means to combat ORNJ.
Project description:Evidence suggests that the bone marrow microenvironment (niches) support hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). The cell-cell interaction between bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSCs) and HSCs plays a crucial role in hematopoiesis. The aging of BMSCs lead to decreased ability to maintain hematopoiesis. We used microarray to determine the age-related change of BMSCs.
Project description:Various culture media that can rapidly expand bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) are currently available. However, the effects of those culture media on the contents of extracellular vesicles released by bone marrow stromal cells have not been fully understood. Using BMSCs from 6 healthy donors were cultured in two different culture media and characterized the small RNA profiles in extracellular vesicles.
Project description:Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) and their exosomes are a promising area of cancer therapy. Multiple myeloma (MM) is refractory hematologic malignancy. Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) interact with MM cells in the bone marrow (BM), and also create a permissive microenvironment for MM cell growth and survival. Recent evidence indicated that exosome-mediated MM cell-BMSC communication plays an important role in the MM microenvironment. In this study, we investigated the biological property of the exosomes and exosomal miRNAs derived from BMSCs, aiming to establish the emerging strategies to target MM microenvironment to prevent tumor growth and spread.
Project description:Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) and their exosomes are a promising area of cancer therapy. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a refractory hematologic malignancy. Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) interact with MM cells in the bone marrow (BM), and also create a permissive microenvironment for MM cell growth and survival. Recent evidence indicated that exosome-mediated MM cell-BMSC communication plays an important role in the MM microenvironment. In this study, we investigated the biological property of the exosomes and exosomal miRNAs derived from BMSCs, aiming to establish the emerging strategies to target MM microenvironment to prevent tumor growth and spread.
Project description:Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) and their exosomes are a promising area of cancer therapy. Multiple myeloma (MM) is refractory hematologic malignancy. Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) interact with MM cells in the bone marrow (BM), and also create a permissive microenvironment for MM cell growth and survival. Recent evidence indicated that exosome-mediated MM cell-BMSC communication plays an important role in the MM microenvironment. In this study, we investigated the biological property of the exosomes and exosomal miRNAs derived from BMSCs, aiming to establish the emerging strategies to target MM microenvironment to prevent tumor growth and spread.