composition for expanding hematopoietic stem cells, expansion method, pharmaceutical composition and use
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of biomedicine. In particular, the invention relates to the use of the composition for expanding hematopoietic stem cells.
Background
The hematopoietic stem cell transplantation technology is a common and effective treatment means for clinically treating various blood diseases and immune system diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, aplastic anemia, thalassemia and the like. Hematopoietic stem cells are generally derived from three sources: bone marrow, peripheral blood and cord blood. Compared with bone marrow and peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells, the umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells are convenient to obtain, rich in sources, free of damage and side effects on donors, and therefore become an important source of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation donors.
At present, the bottleneck of cord blood hematopoietic stem cell transplantation technology is that the cell content is low, and the number of hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells contained in one cord blood is not enough to quickly restore the immune system of an adult patient, so that the fatality rate of opportunistic infection is increased. The current tentative strategy is transplantation of two umbilical cord blood, i.e. one patient receives transplantation of two umbilical cord blood after marrow removal, but this increases the difficulty of matching HLA of donors, so a method for amplifying umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells is urgently needed to obtain sufficient hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation.
Therefore, how to effectively obtain enough hematopoietic stem cells in vitro becomes a scientific problem, and if the technical bottleneck can be broken through in the future, a new chapter of clinical application of the stem cells will be written.
Currently, the most important factor limiting the clinical use of hematopoietic stem cells is the insufficient number of HSCs. There are roughly three strategies to solve this problem: (1) directly differentiating by iPSC or ESC to obtain HSCs with functions; (2) obtaining HSCs by cell reprogramming; (3) existing HSCs are expanded in vitro. The two methods involve excessive technical difficulty and cause additional risks for clinical application, so that clinical research cannot be carried out at a later date. The expansion of hematopoietic stem cells in vitro is an important method for solving the problem.
The in vitro expansion of hematopoietic stem cells has many advantages, which are mainly summarized as the following three characteristics: (1) the homogeneity of the expanded cells is high, and the canceration risk is low; (2) the operation time for expanding HSC is relatively short, and more exogenous adverse factors are prevented from being introduced; (3) the starting cells are hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, generally have no risk of causing tumor, and are safer in clinical application.
the studies of amplified HSCs can be broadly divided into two categories: (1) amplifying HSCs by using gene manipulation means such as introducing exogenous transcription factors or micro RNA; (2) HSCs are amplified by adopting chemical micromolecules. In recent years, with the continuous progress of chemical small molecule technology, small molecule compounds have been widely used in the field of stem cell research. The amplification of HSCs using small molecule drugs has a number of distinct advantages: low toxicity, easy elution and safer clinical use. However, there are also significant disadvantages, and the most worrying is that the target of action of small molecule compounds is not well defined, and there may be safety hazards, such as off-target effect of small molecules, so there still exists a lack of a safe and effective chemical small molecule combination scheme for expanding hematopoietic stem cells with well-defined target in clinic.
In summary, the technical scheme of using the combination of chemical small molecule compounds to expand hematopoietic stem cells in vitro is still under study.
Disclosure of Invention
the present invention aims to solve, at least to some extent, the technical problems of the prior art. Therefore, the invention finds some chemical small molecule compound combinations through a high-throughput screening platform, which not only can efficiently amplify the hematopoietic stem cells in vitro and effectively maintain the protein phenotype and the gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells, but also can improve the in vivo reconstruction function and the reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, and has great scientific research, clinical research and application values.
In one aspect of the invention, the invention features a composition for expanding hematopoietic stem cells. According to an embodiment of the invention, the composition consists of JNK-IN-8, rapamycin, and Y27632.
JNK-IN-8 is a JNK signal pathway inhibitor, and the function of regulating and controlling a JNK signal pathway is realized by inhibiting c-Jun phosphorylation and gene transcription; rapamycin (Rapamycin) is an mTOR signaling pathway inhibitor useful for anti-aging and inhibiting tumor growth; y27632 is ROCK1 inhibitor, can be used for resisting aging, and has effect in maintaining stem cell activity.
The inventor adopts high-throughput screening to obtain a compound for efficiently amplifying hematopoietic stem cells, finds that 3 micromolecule compounds of JNK-IN-8, rapamycin and Y27632 have the effects of mutual matching and synergism, can efficiently amplify the hematopoietic stem cells, effectively maintains the protein phenotype and the gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells, can improve the IN-vivo reconstruction function and the reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, and has great scientific research, clinical research and application values.
In another aspect of the invention, the invention features a medium for expanding hematopoietic stem cells. According to an embodiment of the invention, the medium comprises: a basal medium; and the composition for expanding hematopoietic stem cells as described above. Therefore, the culture medium provided by the embodiment of the invention can be used for efficiently amplifying the hematopoietic stem cells, effectively maintaining the protein phenotype and the gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells, improving the in vivo reconstruction function and the reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, and has great scientific research, clinical research and application values.
according to an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned culture medium may further have the following additional technical features:
according to the embodiment of the invention, the concentration of the JNK ~ IN ~ 8 is 1 ~ 5 mu M, the concentration of the rapamycin is 1 ~ 20 nM, and the concentration of the Y27632 is 1 ~ 20 mu M, according to the embodiment of the invention, the concentrations of the JNK ~ IN ~ 8, the rapamycin and the Y27632 are 2 mu M, 10nM, 10 mu M or 3.5 mu M, 15nM, 7 mu M or 1.5 mu M, 8nM and 15 mu M respectively, according to the embodiment of the invention, the concentration of the JNK ~ IN ~ 8 is 1 ~ 3 mu M, the concentration of the rapamycin is 6 ~ 15nM, and the concentration of the Y27632 is 5 ~ 15 mu M.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the basal medium is selected from the group consisting of StemBan SFEM medium containing Flt3 ligand, Thrombopoietin (TPO), stem cell growth factor (SCF), and Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL). Thus, the efficiency of amplification can be further improved by adding the above-mentioned factor to the StemBansfEM medium.
according to the embodiment of the invention, the concentration of the Flt3 ligand is 60- ~ ng/mL, the concentration of thrombopoietin is 20-50 ng/mL, the concentration of the stem cell factor is 60- ~ ng/mL, and the concentration of the low-density lipoprotein is 5-20 μ g/mL. according to the embodiment of the invention, the concentrations of Flt3 ligand, thrombopoietin, stem cell factor and low-density lipoprotein are ~ ng/mL, 50ng/mL, ~ ng/mL, 10 μ g/mL or 80ng/mL, 30ng/mL, 80ng/mL, 15 μ g/mL or 90ng/mL, 40ng/mL, 90ng/mL and 6 μ g/mL, respectively.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the invention proposes the use of JNK-IN-8, rapamycin and Y27632 IN the preparation of a composition or culture medium for the expansion of hematopoietic stem cells.
In yet another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a method for expanding hematopoietic stem cells. According to an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises: the following metabolic pathways of hematopoietic stem cells are inhibited using the compositions described above: JNK signal path, mTOR signal path and ROCK signal path. The inventor respectively carries out high-throughput screening analysis on a plurality of small molecular substances capable of inhibiting a JNK signal pathway, an mTOR signal pathway and a ROCK signal pathway, and finds that the combined use of the JNK-IN-8 (JNK signal pathway inhibitor), the rapamycin (mTOR signal pathway inhibitor) and the Y27632 (ROCK signal pathway inhibitor) 3 factor can efficiently amplify the hematopoietic stem cells, effectively maintain the protein phenotype and the gene expression spectrum of the hematopoietic stem cells, and can improve the IN-vivo reconstruction function and the reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, the operation is simple and convenient, and the application prospect is wide.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises: will CD34+The cells are cultured in the medium for expanding hematopoietic stem cells described above. Therefore, the method can further improve the amplification efficiency, effectively maintain the protein phenotype and the gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells, improve the in vivo reconstruction function and the reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, is simple and convenient to operate, and has wide application prospect.
according to an embodiment of the present invention, the CD34+the cells are derived from bone marrow, liver, spleen, peripheral blood or umbilical cord blood.
in yet another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a kit for expanding hematopoietic stem cells. According to an embodiment of the invention, the kit comprises: the composition for expanding hematopoietic stem cells described above or the culture medium described above. Therefore, the kit provided by the embodiment of the invention can be used for efficiently amplifying the hematopoietic stem cells, effectively maintaining the protein phenotype and the gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells, improving the in vivo reconstruction function and the reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, and has great scientific research, clinical research and application values.
In a further aspect of the invention, the invention proposes the use of a composition as hereinbefore described for the preparation of an inhibitor. According to an embodiment of the invention, the inhibitor is used for expanding hematopoietic stem cells, inhibiting the following metabolic pathways of hematopoietic stem cells: JNK signal path, mTOR signal path and ROCK signal path. As described above, JNK-IN-8, rapamycin and Y27632 can effectively inhibit a JNK signal pathway, an mTOR signal pathway and/or a ROCK signal pathway, thereby efficiently amplifying hematopoietic stem cells, effectively maintaining the protein phenotype and the gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells, improving the IN vivo reconstruction function and the reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, and having great scientific research, clinical research and application values.
in yet another aspect of the invention, a pharmaceutical composition is provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, the pharmaceutical composition comprises: a composition as hereinbefore described or a culture medium as hereinbefore described. As described above, the pharmaceutical composition according to the embodiment of the present invention can efficiently expand hematopoietic stem cells, and directly or indirectly administer the composition or the culture medium as a pharmaceutical composition into a body (animal or cell) to expand hematopoietic stem cells, or apply hematopoietic stem cells obtained by the method for expanding hematopoietic stem cells into a body, which has a good in vivo reconstitution function and reconstitution efficiency, can be widely used for the treatment of blood system diseases and autoimmune diseases, and has significant scientific research, clinical research and application values.
according to embodiments of the present invention, the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention may be used in conjunction with conventional methods of treatment and/or therapy, or may be used separately from conventional methods of treatment and/or therapy. When the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention are administered in combination therapy with other drugs, they may be administered to the individual sequentially or simultaneously. Alternatively, the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention may also comprise a combination of a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or pharmaceutically acceptable excipient and other therapeutic or prophylactic agents known in the art.
The term "administering" as used herein means introducing a predetermined amount of a substance into a patient by some suitable means. The mesenchymal stem cell of the present invention may be administered by any common route as long as it can reach the desired tissue. Various modes of administration are contemplated, including peritoneal, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, cortical, oral, topical, nasal, pulmonary and rectal, but the invention is not limited to these exemplified modes of administration.
In yet another aspect of the invention, a method of screening for a drug is provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises: combining the candidate drug with CD34+Culturing the cells; determining whether intracellular JNK signaling pathway, mTOR signaling pathway and ROCK signaling pathway are inhibited before and after culturing and/or whether cells are culturedWhether the surface proteins representing the functions of hematopoietic stem cells in cells before and after amplification and/or culture are consistent; when the JNK signaling pathway, mTOR signaling pathway, and ROCK signaling pathway are inhibited after culturing and/or the cells are expanded after culturing and/or surface proteins representing hematopoietic stem cell functions in the cells before and after culturing are consistent, is an indication that the candidate drug is the target drug, which is the composition or the culture medium as described above. As described above, the composition according to the embodiment of the present invention can inhibit the above three metabolic pathways, thereby having the effect of expanding hematopoietic stem cells. Meanwhile, the protein phenotype and the gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells can be effectively maintained after amplification. Therefore, by adopting the method for screening the drug according to the embodiment of the invention, the composition of the invention or the culture medium or the drug containing the composition can be effectively screened, and the method has great scientific research, clinical research and application values.
In the present invention, "identity" is used in the broad sense to mean "identity" in which the surface proteins representing the functions of hematopoietic stem cells in cells before and after culture are identical "and since there are many surface proteins representing the functions of hematopoietic stem cells, all the surface proteins are identical to each other by at least 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 99% or 100% before and after culture, and are considered to be" identity ".
IN yet another aspect of the invention, the invention features the use of JNK-IN-8, rapamycin, and Y27632 for expanding hematopoietic stem cells. As described above, JNK-IN-8, rapamycin and Y27632 can efficiently amplify hematopoietic stem cells, effectively maintain the protein phenotype and gene expression profile of the hematopoietic stem cells, improve the IN vivo reconstruction function and reconstruction efficiency of the hematopoietic stem cells, and have significant scientific research, clinical research and application values.
additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
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The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken IN conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein 3F is an experimental group comprising three small molecules, JNK-IN-8, rapamycin and Y27632, and wherein for convenience of description:
FIG. 1 shows a schematic flow diagram of a process for expanding hematopoietic stem cells according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows DMSO group CD34 according to an embodiment of the invention+Flow cytometric analysis after day 7 of cell culture;
FIG. 3 shows a 3F group CD34 according to an embodiment of the invention+flow cytometric analysis after day 7 of cell culture;
FIG. 4 shows a CD34 according to an embodiment of the invention+flow cytometric analysis after day 7 of cell culture;
Fig. 5 shows an analysis of cells of hematopoietic stem cells according to an example of the invention after culturing in medium containing different small molecule compounds (control group DMSO conditions,. P <0.01,. P < 0.0001);
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the analysis of the expansion result of hematopoietic stem cells 20 weeks after reconstitution of hematopoietic stem cells according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The scheme of the invention will be explained with reference to the examples. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the following examples are illustrative of the invention only and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the invention. The examples, where specific techniques or conditions are not indicated, are to be construed according to the techniques or conditions described in the literature in the art or according to the product specifications. The reagents or instruments used are not indicated by the manufacturer, and are all conventional products commercially available.
Example 1
In this example, hematopoietic stem cells were expanded as follows:
The operation flow is shown in fig. 1, and the specific steps are as follows:
1. Cord blood separation CD34+Cells
1) Collection of umbilical cord blood
Collecting blood from umbilical cord of fetus in sterile environment of operating room, storing in blood bag containing anticoagulant, temporarily storing in 4 deg.C microenvironment, and sending to laboratory within 24 hr.
2) isolation of monocytes in umbilical cord blood
a) In a sterile laboratory bench, the cord blood is transferred to a sterile culture flask prepared in advance, and the ratio of the blood: adding phosphate buffer solution with the volume of =1.2, and uniformly mixing;
b) slowly adding the diluted umbilical cord blood adherent to the wall into a 50ml centrifuge tube containing 15ml of human lymph separation liquid, and paying attention to the slow addition to keep the interface of the two liquid surfaces clear and not break the liquid surface balance between the blood and the lymph separation liquid;
c) Centrifuging at 1500 rpm for 20 min at room temperature;
d) After centrifugation, the liquid surface is divided into three layers, the uppermost layer is a plasma/tissue homogenate layer, the lowermost layer is red blood cells, the middle layer is a separation liquid, and a thin and dense white membrane, namely a monocyte layer (including lymphocytes and monocytes), is arranged between the plasma layer and the separation liquid layer. Carefully pipette the buffy coat cells into another 50ml centrifuge tube;
e) Diluting to 50ml volume with PBS, and mixing by inversion;
f) centrifugation at 1600 rpm for 10 minutes at room temperature;
g) The supernatant was discarded and resuspended in PBS for further use.
3) Magnetic bead sorting method for separating CD34+Cells
a) Mixing human CD34 magnetic beads with mononuclear cells separated from umbilical cord blood according to a certain proportion, uniformly blowing, placing in a refrigerator at 4 ℃ for standing for 30 minutes, simultaneously placing equipment required by magnetic bead sorting in a super clean bench, and irradiating with ultraviolet light for sterilization;
b) Adding 10ml PBS and mixing evenly, and centrifuging for 5 minutes at 1600 rpm;
c) Discarding the supernatant, resuspending with PBS containing 0.5% BSA, and preparing to pass through an adsorption column;
d) Rinsing the adsorption column with PBS containing 0.5% BSA, adding monocyte suspension, and waiting for the monocyte suspension to completely pass through the adsorption column;
e) the column was washed with 1ml PBS containing 0.5% BSA and repeated 3 times;
f) Transferring the adsorption column into a 15ml centrifuge tube, adding 1ml PBS containing 0.5% BSA onto the filter membrane of the adsorption column, and washing the cells carrying CD34 magnetic beads adsorbed on the filter membrane into the centrifuge tube;
g) Centrifuging, discarding the supernatant, and adding medium to resuspend CD34+A cell.
4) Flow analysis of CD34 in the resulting monocytes+in proportion of
a) Taking a small part of the obtained cells carrying the CD34 magnetic beads out to a 1.5ml centrifuge tube;
b) Adding corresponding surface protein antibody, standing in a refrigerator at 4 deg.C;
c) After 30 minutes, taking out, and adding 1ml of PBS;
d) 1600 revolutions per minute, centrifuging for 3 minutes;
e) the supernatant was discarded and resuspended in 200. mu.l of precooled PBS, and the phenotype of the cells obtained was analyzed and detected by a flow cytometer.
2、CD34+Cell culture method
1) Resuspension of CD34 with StemBan SFEM medium (Stemcell brand) containing SCF (100 ng/ml), Flt-3L (100 ng/ml), TPO (50 ng/ml), LDL (10. mu.g/ml)+Cells were added to a 6-well low-profile plate with a cell density of 1X 106the particle/ml is less than that of the traditional Chinese medicine,
Wherein the experimental group is hematopoietic stem cells (named as 3F group) obtained by adding 2 mu M JNK-IN-8, 10nM Rapamycin and 10 mu M Y27632 into the culture medium and culturing, the control group is hematopoietic stem cells (named as DMSO group) obtained by replacing 3 factors IN the experimental group with equal volume of DMSO, and the Fresh group is CD34 freshly separated from umbilical cord blood without IN vitro culture+A cell;
2) will CD34+cells were incubated at 37 ℃ with 5% CO2Culturing in a cell culture box;
3) Every 2 days, half of the culture medium replacement is carried out to ensure that the cell density is 1 multiplied by 106Particle/ml is below;
4) After a period of incubation, the cells are examined for phenotypic changes and the number of cells is counted.
The flow assay pattern at day 7 of cell culture is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. It is found that hematopoietic stem cells can be efficiently expanded by using three factors, i.e., JNK-IN-8, Rapamycin and Y27632, and that the obtained hematopoietic stem cells have a good survival state and surface proteins representing the functions of hematopoietic stem cells can be maintained. CD34 in comparison to DMSO medium+CD45RA-CD38-CD90+Cells can be expanded efficiently in factor 3 medium (fig. 4).
Example 2
In this example, the effect of different small molecule compounds on hematopoietic stem cell expansion was investigated, and a specific culture was performed as in example 1, except that different types of small molecule compounds were added to the medium.
FIG. 5 compares the effect of adding different factors to the medium on the efficiency of expansion of hematopoietic stem cells. Wherein J is JNK-IN-8, Y is Y27632, R is Rapamycin, N is NAD, V is valproic acid, JY is adding JNK-IN-8 and Y27632 simultaneously, RU is adding Rapamycin and UM171 simultaneously, YR is adding Y27632 and Rapamycin simultaneously, YU is adding Y27632 and UM171 simultaneously, JYR is adding JNK-IN-8, Rapamycin and Y27632 simultaneously, JRU is adding JNK-IN-8, Rapamycin and UM171 simultaneously, YRU is adding Y27632, Rapamycin and UM171 simultaneously.
As a result, it can be seen that 3 factors, namely JNK-IN-8, Y27632 and Rapamycin, are added simultaneously, CD34, compared with the addition of JNK-IN-8, Y27632 and Rapamycin alone or other factors+CD45RA-the expansion efficiency of the labeled hematopoietic stem progenitor cells is highest.
after 7 days of amplification, the cells are injected into NPG severe immunodeficiency mice through tail veins for 20 weeks, the expansion multiple of the hematopoietic stem cells cultured by the factor 3 is calculated by using a limiting dilution method, the left graph of FIG. 6 shows that the proportion of the hematopoietic stem cells in the cells amplified by the 3F culture condition is higher than that in DMSO and Fresh groups, 1 hematopoietic stem cell is present in each 486 cells on average in the cells cultured by the 3F culture condition after 7 days, while 1 hematopoietic stem cell is present in 4882 cells on average in the DMSO control group, and one hematopoietic stem cell is present in each 3909 cells on average in the Fresh control group, so that the 3F culture condition amplifies the number of the hematopoietic stem cells in the Fresh primary CD34+ cells by about 9 times according to statistical data.
In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present invention.