Human CD34+ CD133+ hematopoietic stem cells cultured with growth factors including Angptl5 efficiently engraft adult NOD-SCID il2rγ-/- (NSG) mice

Adam C. Drake, Maroun Khoury, Ilya Leskov, Bettina P. Iliopoulou, Maria Fragoso, Harvey Lodish, Jianzhu Chen*

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Abstract

Increasing demand for human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in clinical and research applications necessitates expansion of HSCs in vitro. Before these cells can be used they must be carefully evaluated to assess their stem cell activity. Here, we expanded cord blood CD34+ CD133+ cells in a defined medium containing angiopoietin like 5 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 and evaluated the cells for stem cell activity in NOD-SCID Il2rg-/- (NSG) mice by multi-lineage engraftment, long term reconstitution, limiting dilution and serial reconstitution. The phenotype of expanded cells was characterized by flow cytometry during the course of expansion and following engraftment in mice. We show that the SCID repopulating activity resides in the CD34+ CD133+ fraction of expanded cells and that CD34+ CD133+ cell number correlates with SCID repopulating activity before and after culture. The expanded cells mediate long-term hematopoiesis and serial reconstitution in NSG mice. Furthermore, they efficiently reconstitute not only neonate but also adult NSG recipients, generating human blood cell populations similar to those reported in mice reconstituted with uncultured human HSCs. These findings suggest an expansion of long term HSCs in our culture and show that expression of CD34 and CD133 serves as a marker for HSC activity in human cord blood cell cultures. The ability to expand human HSCs in vitro should facilitate clinical use of HSCs and large-scale construction of humanized mice from the same donor for research applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere18382
JournalPLoS ONE
Volume6
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

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Copyright: 2011 Drake et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
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Keywords

  • Angiopoietins
  • Animals
  • Antigens, CD
  • Antigens, CD34
  • Blood Platelets
  • Fetal Blood
  • Flow Cytometry;
  • Glycoproteins
  • Humans
  • Interleukin Receptor Common gamma Subunit
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred NOD
  • Mice, SCID
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Peptides

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