凝血酶
水蛭素
祖细胞
细胞生物学
细胞生长
凝血酶受体
细胞培养
免疫印迹
生物
化学
分子生物学
药理学
干细胞
生物化学
免疫学
血小板
基因
遗传学
作者
Cinzia Fabrizi,Francesco Angelini,Isotta Chimenti,Elena Pompili,Francesca Somma,Roberto Gaetani,Elisa Messina,Laura Fumagalli,Alessandro Giacomello,Giacomo Frati
出处
期刊:PubMed
日期:2011-12-08
卷期号:25 (2 Suppl): S43-51
被引量:7
摘要
Many studies demonstrated that human adult cardiac progenitor cells in the form of cardiospheres (CSps) could represent a powerful candidate for cardiac cell therapy. To achieve the clinical translation of this biotechnological product, the development of well-defined culture conditions is required to optimize their proliferation and differentiation. Thrombin, a serine protease acting through the protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR-1) signalling to modulate many cellular functions such as proliferation and differentiation in several cell types, is one of the factors included in the CSps medium. Therefore, the assessment of the effective dependence of the thrombin related cellular effects from PAR-signalling is strategic both for understanding the biological potential of these cells and for the GMP translation of the medium formulation, using synthesised analogs. In this study the effects of thrombin on human CSps and their potential relationship with the specific proteolytic activation of PAR-1 have been investigated in different culture conditions, including thrombin inhibitor hirudin and PAR-1 agonist/ antagonist peptides TFLLR and MUMB2. In this study we show that, in the presence of thrombin and TFLLR, CSps, in which PAR-1 expression was evidenced by immunofluorescence and western blot analysis, increase their proliferation activity (BrdU assay). Such increased proliferative rate was consistently associated with a higher phosphorylation level of the cell cycle inhibitor GSK3. Concerning the assessment of the potential effects of thrombin and its agonist on differentiation, both western blot and real-time PCR analysis for stemness, cardiac and vascular markers (such as cKit, cx43 and KDR) showed that CSps commitment was substantially unaffected, except for GATA4 mRNA, whose transcription was down-regulated in the presence of the natural protease, but not after treatment with TFLLR. In conclusion, activation of PAR-1-dependent signalling is important to support CSps proliferative potential, keeping unaltered or at best stable their differentiation properties. The availability of thrombin agonists, such as TFLLR, able to guarantee the required growth effect without affecting CSps lineage commitment, could represent a technological improvement for cost-effective, easy-to-handle and GMPtranslatable synthetic media.
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