One Standardized Differentiation Procedure Robustly Generates Homogenous Hepatocyte Cultures Displaying Metabolic Diversity from a Large Panel of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Human hepatocytes display substantial functional inter-individual variation regarding drug metabolizing functions. In order to investigate if this diversity is mirrored in hepatocytes derived from different human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) lines, we evaluated 25 hPSC lines originating from 24 diff...

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Veröffentlicht in:Stem cell reviews 2016-02, Vol.12 (1), p.90-104
Hauptverfasser: Asplund, Annika, Pradip, Arvind, van Giezen, Mariska, Aspegren, Anders, Choukair, Helena, Rehnström, Marie, Jacobsson, Susanna, Ghosheh, Nidal, El Hajjam, Dorra, Holmgren, Sandra, Larsson, Susanna, Benecke, Jörg, Butron, Mariela, Wigander, Annelie, Noaksson, Karin, Sartipy, Peter, Björquist, Petter, Edsbagge, Josefina, Küppers-Munther, Barbara
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Zusammenfassung:Human hepatocytes display substantial functional inter-individual variation regarding drug metabolizing functions. In order to investigate if this diversity is mirrored in hepatocytes derived from different human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) lines, we evaluated 25 hPSC lines originating from 24 different donors for hepatic differentiation and functionality. Homogenous hepatocyte cultures could be derived from all hPSC lines using one standardized differentiation procedure. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of a standardized hepatic differentiation procedure that is generally applicable across a large panel of hPSC lines without any adaptations to individual lines. Importantly, with regard to functional aspects, such as Cytochrome P450 activities, we observed that hepatocytes derived from different hPSC lines displayed inter-individual variation characteristic for primary hepatocytes obtained from different donors, while these activities were highly reproducible between repeated experiments using the same line. Taken together, these data demonstrate the emerging possibility to compile panels of hPSC-derived hepatocytes of particular phenotypes/genotypes relevant for drug metabolism and toxicity studies. Moreover, these findings are of significance for applications within the regenerative medicine field, since our stringent differentiation procedure allows the derivation of homogenous hepatocyte cultures from multiple donors which is a prerequisite for the realization of future personalized stem cell based therapies.
ISSN:1550-8943
2629-3269
1558-6804
1558-6804
2629-3277
DOI:10.1007/s12015-015-9621-9