(*contributed equally to this work) 发布: 2017年12月05日第7卷第23期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2642 浏览次数: 10015
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Abstract
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are a promising tool in cell-based therapies for degenerative diseases. A safe application of hiPSCs in vivo, requires the detection of the presence of residual undifferentiated pluripotent cells that can potentially cause the insurgence of teratomas. Several studies point out that metabolic products may provide an alternative method to identify the different steps of cells differentiation. In particular, the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is gaining a growing interest in this context, thanks to its inherent noninvasiveness. Here, a protocol for VOCs analysis from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) is illustrated. It is based on Solid-Phase Microextraction (SPME) technique coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The method is applied to measure the volatile metabolite modifications in cells headspace during cell reprogramming from chorionic villus samples (CVS) to hiPSCs, and along hiPSCs in vitro differentiation into early neural progenitors (NPs), passing through embryoid bodies (EBs) formation.
Keywords: Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (气相色谱 - 质谱法)Background
Cellular metabolism is proposed as an alternative to studying stem cells during the various steps of differentiation. Indeed, it is reasonable to suppose that the transition of stem cells from pluripotency to the complete differentiation, might give rise to a dramatic change of metabolic products. First evidence of this assumption was observed between induced pluripotent stem cells, parental fibroblasts, and embryonic stem cells (Meissen et al., 2012).
Within the metabolic products, the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are attracting interest for the supposed simplicity of their collection, the intrinsic non-invasiveness and the wide availability of the analysis methods (Boots et al., 2015). To this regard, several studies show that the headspace of cancer cells exhibit a VOCs profile which is altered as compared to that of normal cells (Sponring et al., 2010; Peled et al., 2013; Filipiak et al., 2016).
Recently, we investigated the VOCs profiles of hiPSCs along the successive steps of differentiation (Capuano et al., 2017). Results support the hypothesis that the volatile fraction of the metabolic profile changes along the differentiation process as a reflection of the dramatic variations occurring in the cells.
GC/MS analysis evidences a number of compounds whose relative abundance can signal the difference between the various phases of the differentiation. Most of these compounds are aldehydes, alcohols, and alkanes. It is worth to remark that these compounds are detected because of their affinity with the chosen SPME and the GC/MS column. As a consequence, at this stage, it cannot be excluded that additional and even more discriminating volatile compounds might be found using different experimental setups. However, the outlined protocol is thoroughly valid even when different materials for SPME and GC/MS columns are selected. In other words, the protocol to sample volatile compounds from cell cultures and to analyze them with GC/MS is valid in general. Albeit, changes in the materials of the SPME fiber and the column modify the sensitivity respect to volatile compounds, then the use of different materials may highlight the presence of some classes of compounds and hinder the detection of others.
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Capuano, R., Talarico, R. V., Spitalieri, P., Roberto, P., Giuseppe, N., Sangiuolo, F. and Di Natale, C. (2017). GC/MS-based Analysis of Volatile Metabolic Profile Along in vitro Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Bio-protocol 7(23): e2642. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2642.
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干细胞 > 多能干细胞 > 细胞诱导
细胞生物学 > 细胞新陈代谢 > 其它化合物
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