Primary-like human hepatocytes genetically engineered to obtain proliferation competence display hepatic differentiation characteristics in monolayer and organotypical spheroid cultures
| Autor: | Katrin Scheibner, Sebastian Sperling, Kai-Uwe Schmidtke, Amelie Lupp, Georg Damm, Natalie Herzog, Jan-Heiner Küpper, Ursula Anderer, Daniel Seehofer, Max Hansen, Sebastian Miethbauer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
biology Cell growth Multidrug resistance-associated protein 2 Cellular differentiation Serum albumin Cytochrome P450 Cell Biology General Medicine Molecular biology In vitro Cell biology 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Cell culture 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Hepatocyte medicine biology.protein |
| Zdroj: | Cell Biology International. 40:341-353 |
| ISSN: | 1065-6995 |
| Popis: | Primary human hepatocytes are in great demand during drug development and in hepatology. However, both scarcity of tissue supply and donor variability of primary cells create a need for the development of alternative hepatocyte systems. By using a lentivirus vector system to transfer coding sequences of Upcyte® proliferation genes, we generated non-transformed stable hepatocyte cultures from human liver tissue samples. Here, we show data on newly generated proliferation-competent HepaFH3 cells investigated as conventional two-dimensional monolayer and as organotypical three-dimensional (3D) spheroid culture. In monolayer culture, HepaFH3 cells show typical cobblestone-like hepatocyte morphology and anchorage-dependent growth for at least 20 passages. Immunofluorescence staining revealed that characteristic hepatocyte marker proteins cytokeratin 8, human serum albumin, and cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 were expressed. Quantitative real-time PCR analyses showed that expression levels of analyzed phase I CYP enzymes were at similar levels compared to those of cultured primary human hepatocytes and considerably higher than in the liver carcinoma cell line HepG2. Additionally, transcripts for phase II liver enzymes and transporter proteins OATP-C, MRP2, Oct1, and BSEP were present in HepaFH3. The cells produced urea and converted model compounds such as testosterone, diclofenac, and 7-OH-coumarin into phases I and II metabolites. Interestingly, phases I and II enzymes were expressed at about the same levels in convenient monolayer cultures and complex 3D spheroids. In conclusion, HepaFH3 cells and related primary-like hepatocyte lines seem to be promising tools for in vitro research of liver functions and as test system in drug development and toxicology analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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