Long-Term Culture of Self-renewing Pancreatic Progenitors Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Pluripotent stem cells have been proposed as an unlimited source of pancreatic β cells for studying and treating diabetes. However, the long, multi-step differentiation protocols used to generate functional β cells inevitably exhibit considerable variability, particularly when applied to pluripotent...

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Main Authors: Trott, Jamie, Tan, Ee Kim, Ong, Sheena, Titmarsh, Drew M., Denil, Simon L.I.J., Giam, Maybelline, Wong, Cheng Kit, Wang, Jiaxu, Shboul, Mohammad, Eio, Michelle, Cooper-White, Justin, Cool, Simon M., Rancati, Giulia, Stanton, Lawrence W., Reversade, Bruno, Dunn, Norris Ray
Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86521
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44039
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Pluripotent stem cells have been proposed as an unlimited source of pancreatic β cells for studying and treating diabetes. However, the long, multi-step differentiation protocols used to generate functional β cells inevitably exhibit considerable variability, particularly when applied to pluripotent cells from diverse genetic backgrounds. We have developed culture conditions that support long-term self-renewal of human multipotent pancreatic progenitors, which are developmentally more proximal to the specialized cells of the adult pancreas. These cultured pancreatic progenitor (cPP) cells express key pancreatic transcription factors, including PDX1 and SOX9, and exhibit transcriptomes closely related to their in vivo counterparts. Upon exposure to differentiation cues, cPP cells give rise to pancreatic endocrine, acinar, and ductal lineages, indicating multilineage potency. Furthermore, cPP cells generate insulin+ β-like cells in vitro and in vivo, suggesting that they offer a convenient alternative to pluripotent cells as a source of adult cell types for modeling pancreatic development and diabetes.