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Bourhill T, Rohani L, Kumar M, Bose P, Rancourt D, Johnston RN. Modulation of Reoviral Cytolysis (II): Cellular Stemness. Viruses 2023; 15:1473. [PMID: 37515162 PMCID: PMC10386201 DOI: 10.3390/v15071473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are an emerging cancer therapeutic that are intended to act by selectively targeting and lysing cancerous cells and by stimulating anti-tumour immune responses, while leaving normal cells mainly unaffected. Reovirus is a well-studied OV that is undergoing advanced clinical trials and has received FDA approval in selected circumstances. However, the mechanisms governing reoviral selectivity are not well characterised despite many years of effort, including those in our accompanying paper where we characterize pathways that do not consistently modulate reoviral cytolysis. We have earlier shown that reovirus is capable of infecting and lysing both certain types of cancer cells and also cancer stem cells, and here we demonstrate its ability to also infect and kill healthy pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). This led us to hypothesize that pathways responsible for stemness may constitute a novel route for the modulation of reoviral tropism. We find that reovirus is capable of killing both murine and human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. Differentiation of PSCs alters the cells' reoviral-permissive state to a resistant one. In a breast cancer cell line that was resistant to reoviral oncolysis, induction of pluripotency programming rendered the cells permissive to cytolysis. Bioinformatic analysis indicates that expression of the Yamanaka pluripotency factors may be associated with regulating reoviral selectivity. Mechanistic insights from these studies will be useful for the advancement of reoviral oncolytic therapy.
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- Tarryn Bourhill
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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Meng G, Liu S, Poon A, Rancourt DE. Optimizing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion in Stirred-Suspension Culture. Stem Cells Dev 2017; 26:1804-1817. [DOI: 10.1089/scd.2017.0090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Guoliang Meng
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Smith D, Glen K, Thomas R. Automated image analysis with the potential for process quality control applications in stem cell maintenance and differentiation. Biotechnol Prog 2015; 32:215-23. [PMID: 26560993 PMCID: PMC4991304 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.2199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Revised: 11/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The translation of laboratory processes into scaled production systems suitable for manufacture is a significant challenge for cell based therapies; in particular there is a lack of analytical methods that are informative and efficient for process control. Here the potential of image analysis as one part of the solution to this issue is explored, using pluripotent stem cell colonies as a valuable and challenging exemplar. The Cell‐IQ live cell imaging platform was used to build image libraries of morphological culture attributes such as colony “edge,” “core periphery” or “core” cells. Conventional biomarkers, such as Oct3/4, Nanog, and Sox‐2, were shown to correspond to specific morphologies using immunostaining and flow cytometry techniques. Quantitative monitoring of these morphological attributes in‐process using the reference image libraries showed rapid sensitivity to changes induced by different media exchange regimes or the addition of mesoderm lineage inducing cytokine BMP4. The imaging sample size to precision relationship was defined for each morphological attribute to show that this sensitivity could be achieved with a relatively low imaging sample. Further, the morphological state of single colonies could be correlated to individual colony outcomes; smaller colonies were identified as optimum for homogenous early mesoderm differentiation, while larger colonies maintained a morphologically pluripotent core. Finally, we show the potential of the same image libraries to assess cell number in culture with accuracy comparable to sacrificial digestion and counting. The data supports a potentially powerful role for quantitative image analysis in the setting of in‐process specifications, and also for screening the effects of process actions during development, which is highly complementary to current analysis in optimization and manufacture. © 2015 The Authors Biotechnology Progress published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 32:215–223, 2016
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- David Smith
- Centre for Biological Engineering, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, U.K
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- Centre for Biological Engineering, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, U.K
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- Centre for Biological Engineering, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, U.K
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Plouffe BD, Murthy SK, Lewis LH. Fundamentals and application of magnetic particles in cell isolation and enrichment: a review. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2015; 78:016601. [PMID: 25471081 PMCID: PMC4310825 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/78/1/016601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Magnetic sorting using magnetic beads has become a routine methodology for the separation of key cell populations from biological suspensions. Due to the inherent ability of magnets to provide forces at a distance, magnetic cell manipulation is now a standardized process step in numerous processes in tissue engineering, medicine, and in fundamental biological research. Herein we review the current status of magnetic particles to enable isolation and separation of cells, with a strong focus on the fundamental governing physical phenomena, properties and syntheses of magnetic particles and on current applications of magnet-based cell separation in laboratory and clinical settings. We highlight the contribution of cell separation to biomedical research and medicine and detail modern cell-separation methods (both magnetic and non-magnetic). In addition to a review of the current state-of-the-art in magnet-based cell sorting, we discuss current challenges and available opportunities for further research, development and commercialization of magnetic particle-based cell-separation systems.
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- Brian D Plouffe
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. The Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Muthusamy T, Mukherjee O, Menon R, Megha PB, Panicker MM. A method to identify and isolate pluripotent human stem cells and mouse epiblast stem cells using lipid body-associated retinyl ester fluorescence. Stem Cell Reports 2014; 3:169-84. [PMID: 25068130 PMCID: PMC4110788 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2013] [Revised: 05/01/2014] [Accepted: 05/07/2014] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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We describe the use of a characteristic blue fluorescence to identify and isolate pluripotent human embryonic stem cells and human-induced pluripotent stem cells. The blue fluorescence emission (450–500 nm) is readily observed by fluorescence microscopy and correlates with the expression of pluripotency markers (OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG). It allows easy identification and isolation of undifferentiated human pluripotent stem cells, high-throughput fluorescence sorting and subsequent propagation. The fluorescence appears early during somatic reprogramming. We show that the blue fluorescence arises from the sequestration of retinyl esters in cytoplasmic lipid bodies. The retinoid-sequestering lipid bodies are specific to human and mouse pluripotent stem cells of the primed or epiblast-like state and absent in naive mouse embryonic stem cells. Retinol, present in widely used stem cell culture media, is sequestered as retinyl ester specifically by primed pluripotent cells and also can induce the formation of these lipid bodies. Human pluripotent stem cells exhibit a characteristic blue fluorescence It arises from the sequestration of retinyl esters in cytoplasmic lipid bodies It is associated with pluripotency and allows for easy high throughput propagation It marks cells of primed or epiblast-like state and is absent in naive cells
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR), Bangalore 560065, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR), Bangalore 560065, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR), Bangalore 560065, India
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Singh A, Suri S, Lee T, Chilton JM, Cooke MT, Chen W, Fu J, Stice SL, Lu H, McDevitt TC, García AJ. Adhesion strength-based, label-free isolation of human pluripotent stem cells. Nat Methods 2013; 10:438-44. [PMID: 23563795 PMCID: PMC3641175 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2012] [Accepted: 03/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The ability to efficiently isolate undifferentiated human induced pluripotent stem cells (UD-hiPSCs) as colonies from contaminating non-pluripotent cells is a crucial step in the stem cell field to maintain hiPSC survival, purity, and karyotype stability. Here we demonstrate significant differences in ‘adhesive signature’ among UD-hiPSCs, parental cells, partially reprogrammed cells, and differentiated progeny. The distinct adhesive signature of hiPSCs was exploited to rapidly (~10 min) and efficiently isolate fully reprogrammed bona fide hiPSCs as intact colonies from heterogeneous reprogramming cultures and differentiated progeny using microfluidics. hiPSCs were isolated in a label-free fashion and enriched to > 95–99% purity and survival without adversely affecting the transcriptional profile, differentiation potential or karyotype of the pluripotent cells. This rapid and label-free strategy is applicable to isolate UD-hPSCs (hiPSCs, hESCs) from heterogeneous cultures during reprogramming and routine cultures and can be expanded to purify stem cells of specific lineages, such as neurons and cardiomyocytes.
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- Ankur Singh
- Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Meng G, Liu S, Rancourt DE. Synergistic effect of medium, matrix, and exogenous factors on the adhesion and growth of human pluripotent stem cells under defined, xeno-free conditions. Stem Cells Dev 2012; 21:2036-48. [PMID: 22149941 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2011.0489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), share the properties of unlimited self-renewal and the capacity to become any cell type in the body, making them well suited for regenerative medicine and cell therapy. So far, almost all hPSC lines have been directly or indirectly exposed to animal-derived products, which would hinder their use for clinical purposes. One of the biggest challenges in this area is to remove animal components from the derivation, propagation, and cryopreservation of hPSCs. Moreover, the presence of undefined components of animal or human origin in culture system may interfere with the interpretation of the effect of exogenous agents on the growth and differentiation of hPSCs and are prone to significant variability. To explore hPSC expansion in defined, xeno-free conditions, 2 different groups of culture systems were used to culture different hESC and hiPSC lines. Our results suggested that (1) medium, matrix, and exogenous factors have synergistic effects on the adhesion and growth of hPSCs; (2) cooperation of exogenous factors including basic fibroblast growth factor, Rho-associated kinase inhibitor (ROCK), and other growth factors is critical for hPSC adhesion and proliferation; (3) basal media have different effects on hPSC attachment to the culture surface; and (4) a medium or matrix component can work synergistically in one culture system, and not at all in another. In this study, we found that Vitronectin/TeSR2 and PDL/HEScGRO (Y-27632) systems were optimal for maintaining the long-term culture of 3 hESC lines and 2 hiPSC lines under defined, xeno-free conditions.
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- Guoliang Meng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Meng G, Rancourt DE. Derivation and maintenance of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 873:69-80. [PMID: 22528349 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-794-1_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are self-renewing, pluripotent cells derived from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, early-stage embryos, or blastomeres. hESCs can be propagated indefinitely in an undifferentiated state in vitro and have the ability to differentiate into all cell types of the body. Therefore, these cells can potentially provide an unlimited source of cells and hold promise for transplantation therapy, regenerative medicine, drug screening and discovery, and basic scientific research. Surplus human embryos donated for hESC derivation are extremely valuable, and inefficient derivation of hESCs would be a terrible waste of human embryos. Here, we describe a method for isolating hESC lines from human blastocysts with high efficiency. We also describe the methods for excising differentiated areas from partially differentiated hESC colonies and re-isolating undifferentiated hESCs from extremely differentiated hESC colonies.
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