Colony-forming cells in the adult mouse pancreas are expandable in Matrigel and form endocrine/acinar colonies in laminin hydrogel
Abstract
The study of hematopoietic colony-forming units using semisolid culture media has greatly advanced the knowledge of hematopoiesis. Here we report that similar methods can be used to study pancreatic colony-forming units. We have developed two pancreatic colony assays that enable quantitative and functional analyses of progenitor-like cells isolated from dissociated adult (2–4 mo old) murine pancreas. We find that a methylcellulose-based semisolid medium containing Matrigel allows growth of duct-like "Ring/Dense" colonies from a rare (∼1%) population of total pancreatic single cells. With the addition of roof plate-specific spondin 1, a wingless-int agonist, Ring/Dense colony-forming cells can be expanded more than 100,000-fold when serially dissociated and replated in the presence of Matrigel. When cells grown in Matrigel are then transferred to a Matrigel-free semisolid medium with a unique laminin-based hydrogel, some cells grow and differentiate into another type of colony, which we name "Endocrine/Acinar." These Endocrine/Acinar colonies are comprised mostly of endocrine- and acinar-like cells, as ascertained by RNA expression analysis, immunohistochemistry, and electron microscopy. Most Endocrine/Acinar colonies contain beta-like cells that secrete insulin/C-peptide in response to D-glucose and theophylline. These results demonstrate robust self-renewal and differentiation of adult Ring/Dense colony-forming units in vitro and suggest an approach to producing beta-like cells for cell replacement of type 1 diabetes. The methods described, which include microfluidic expression analysis of single cells and colonies, should also advance study of pancreas development and pancreatic progenitor cells.
Additional Information
© 2013 National Academy of Sciences. Freely available online through the PNAS open access option. Contributed by Arthur D. Riggs, January 29, 2013 (sent for review December 26, 2012). Published online before print February 19, 2013. We thank Lucy Brown, Alexander Spalla, and Pavinder Kaur from the Analytical Cytometry Core of City of Hope for assistance in flow sorting and Dr. Vincenzo Cirulli at the University of Washington for evaluating photomicrographs of electron microscopy. This work is supported in part by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant R01DK081587 (to H.T.K.), U01DK089533 (to A.D.R.), DK078803 (to M.S.), National Science Foundation NSF-DMR-1206121 (to D.A.T.), Office of Naval Research ONR-N00014-02-1 0958 and NSF-DBI-9970143 (to Electron Microscopy Core), NIH Grant P30 CA33572 (to Analytical Cytometry Core at City of Hope), a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship (to H.P.S.), and a City of Hope Eugene and Ruth Roberts Summer Student Academy fellowship (to A.L.). Author contributions: L.J. and H.T.K. designed research; L.J., T.F., H.P.S., R.Z., A.L., J.H., and H.T.K. performed research; H.P.S., A.M., M.S., and D.A.T. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; L.J., T.F., and H.P.S. analyzed data; and L.J., A.D.R., and H.T.K. wrote the paper.Attached Files
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- R01DK081587
- NIH
- U01DK089533
- NIH
- DK078803
- NSF
- DMR-1206121
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- N00014-02-1 0958
- NSF
- DBI-9970143
- NIH
- P30 CA33572
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- City of Hope Eugene and Ruth Roberts Summer Student Academy fellowship
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