Synthetic liver fibrotic niche extracts achieve in vitro hepatoblasts phenotype enhancement and expansion

Summary: It is still a challenge for synthesizing ‘cellular niche-mimics’ in vitro with satisfactory reproducibility and fidelity to recreate the natural niche components (e.g., extracellular matrices and soluble factors) for stem cell cultivation. Inspired by the massive amplification of hepatic pr...

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Autores principales: Yuying Zhang, Anqi Guo, Cheng Lyu, Ran Bi, Zhaozhao Wu, Wenjing Li, Peng Zhao, Yudi Niu, Jie Na, Jianzhong Jeff Xi, Yanan Du
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Sumario:Summary: It is still a challenge for synthesizing ‘cellular niche-mimics’ in vitro with satisfactory reproducibility and fidelity to recreate the natural niche components (e.g., extracellular matrices and soluble factors) for stem cell cultivation. Inspired by the massive amplification of hepatic progenitor cells during liver fibrosis in vivo, here we optimized the in vitro liver fibrotic niches and subsequently harvested their bioactive ingredients as niche extracts (NEs). The fibrosis-relevant NE marginally outperformed Matrigel for phenotype maintenance of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived hepatoblasts (HBs) and recapitulation of the pathological angiogenesis of hESC-derived endothelial cells both in 2D culture and 3D liver organoids. Finally, defined NE components (i.e., collagen III, IV, IL-17, IL-18 and M-CSF) were resolved by the quantitative proteomics which exhibited advantage over Matrigel for multi-passaged HB expansion. The pathology-relevant and tissue-specific NEs provide innovative and generalizable strategies for the discovery of optimal cellular niche and bioactive niche compositions.