Exploring human pancreatic organoid modelling through single-cell RNA sequencing analysis.

Autor: Cherubini A; Precision Medicine Lab - Department of Transfusion Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. alessandro.cherubini@policlinico.mi.it., Rusconi F; Unit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy., Piras R; Department of Radiation Oncology, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA., Wächtershäuser KN; Physical Biology Group, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany., Dossena M; Unit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy., Barilani M; Unit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy., Mei C; Unit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy., Hof L; Physical Biology Group, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany., Sordi V; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, Milan, Italy., Pampaloni F; Physical Biology Group, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany., Dolo V; Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy., Piemonti L; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, Milan, Italy.; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy., Lazzari L; Unit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. lorenza.lazzari@policlinico.mi.it.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Communications biology [Commun Biol] 2024 Nov 18; Vol. 7 (1), pp. 1527. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 18.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-07193-3
Abstrakt: Human organoids have been proposed to be powerful tools mimicking the physiopathological processes of the organs of origin. Recently, human pancreatic organoids (hPOs) have gained increasing attention due to potential theragnostic and regenerative medicine applications. However, the cellular components of hPOs have not been defined precisely. In this work, we finely characterized these structures, focusing first on morphology and identity-defining molecular features under long-term culture conditions. Next, we focused our attention on hPOs cell type composition using single-cell RNA sequencing founding a complex heterogeneity in ductal components, ranging from progenitor components to terminally differentiated ducts. Furthermore, an extensive comparison of human pancreatic organoids with previously reported transcriptomics signature of human and mouse pancreatic ductal populations, confirmed the functional pancreatic duct subpopulation heterogeneity. Finally, we showed that pancreatic organoid cells follow a precise developmental trajectory and utilize diverse signalling mechanisms, including EGF and SPP1, to facilitate cell-cell communication and maturation. Together our results offer an in-depth description of human pancreatic organoids providing a strong foundation for future in vitro diagnostic and translational studies of pancreatic health and disease.
Competing Interests: Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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