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(Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Institut de Recerca contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras)| Date: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing stem cell self-renewal will foster the use of different types of stem cells in disease modeling and cell therapy strategies. Immortalization, understood as the capacity for indefinite expansion, is needed for the generation of any cell line. In the case of v-myc immortalized multipotent human Neural Stem Cells (hNSCs), we hypothesized that v-myc immortalization could induce a more de-differentiated state in v-myc hNSC lines. To test this, we investigated the expression of surface, biochemical and genetic markers of stemness and pluripotency in v-myc immortalized and control hNSCs (primary precursors, that is, neurospheres) and compared these two cell types to human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs) and fibroblasts. Using a Hierarchical Clustering method and a Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the v-myc hNSCs associated with their counterparts hNSCs (in the absence of v-myc) and displayed a differential expression pattern when compared to hESCs. Moreover, the expression analysis of pluripotency markers suggested no evidence supporting a reprogramming-like process despite the increment in telomerase expression. In conclusion, v-myc expression in hNSC lines ensures self-renewal through the activation of some genes involved in the maintenance of stem cell properties in multipotent cells but does not alter the expression of key pluripotency-associated genes. |
| Grants: | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PLE2009-0101 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación SAF2010-17167 European Commission 214706 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RD12/0019/0006 |
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| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Published in: | PloS one, Vol. 10 (march 2015) , ISSN 1932-6203 |
