Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines from Adult Rat Cells
Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines from Adult Rat Cells
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从成年大鼠细胞产生诱导多能干细胞系
DOI:
10.1016/j.stem.2008.11.013
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发表时间:
2009-01-09
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影响因子:
23.9
通讯作者:
Xiao, Lei
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作者:
Liao, Jing;Cui, Chun;Xiao, Lei
The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) was the first mammalian species domesticated for scientific research, and it has been used as an animal model for physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, nutrition, behavior, immunology, and neoplasia for over 150 years (Jacob, 1999). Despite this history, the rat lags far behind the mouse in functional genetic studies and generation of human disease models because of the absence of functional germline-competent rat embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which are vital in reverse genetics approach. Here, we report the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from adult rat cells and demonstrate that the iPSC technique provides a feasible approach to establish pluripotent stem cells for a species in which ESCs have previously proven to be difficult to establish from the early embryo. After the first mouse ESC lines were derived 27 years ago (Evans and Kaufman, 1981; Martin, 1981), many efforts were made to establish rat ESCs, without success to date (Brenin et al., 1997; Demers et al., 2007; Iannaccone et al., 1994; Mashimo et al., 2008; Schulze et al., 2006; Ueda et al., 2008; Vassilieva et al., 2000). All of the reported cell lines could only be termed ESC-like cells because they did not meet the criteria of ESCs in one or more of the following aspects:(1) few cell lines could proliferate for a long period of time while remaining undifferentiated and maintaining normal karyotypes;(2) an advanced teratoma containing all three germ layers was not reported when the cells were injected into immune-deficient mice, suggesting that these rat ESC-like cells lacked the ability to differentiate into derivatives of all three germ layers; and (3) when rat ESC-like cells were injected into a blastocyst, the cells only contributed to extraembryonic tissue. No convincing evidence was reported that the cells could contribute to other tissues (Brenin et al., 1997; Demers et al., 2007; Ueda et al., 2008). These unsuccessful attempts suggest that establishing rat ESCs from a blastocyst might not be feasible using traditional methods. Another type of pluripotent stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be generated by reprogramming adult cells using defined transcription factors (Liao et al., 2008; Park et al., 2008; Takahashi et al., 2007; Takahashi and Yamanaka, 2006; Yu et al., 2007). Although the first reported mouse iPSCs did not show germline transmission (Takahashi and Yamanaka, 2006), germline transmission and homologous recombination were recently demonstrated (Hanna et al., 2007; Okita et al., 2007; Wernig et al., 2007). These reports suggest that iPSCs can replace ESCs in vivo to generate gene knockout and knockin strains. Thus, iPSCs could be extremely valuable, especially for rat and other species in which ESCs are not available, or difficult to isolate.The rat primary ear fibroblast (PEF) or primary bone marrow (BMC) cells used in this report were derived from 10-week-old SD rats. A schematic diagram of the reprogramming protocol is shown in Figure 1 A, and detailed Experimental Procedures are included in the Supplemental Data online. Virus containing a cocktail of reprogramming factors was used to transduce the adult cells. Two days after transduction, the cells were harvested by trypsinization and plated onto MEF (murine embryonic fibroblast cells) at 5 3 104 cells per well of a sixwell plate. The next day, the medium (DMEM containing 10% FBS) was re-