Effects of neuritin on the differentiation of bone marrow‑derived mesenchymal stem cells into neuron‑like cells
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- Published online on: July 14, 2017 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2017.6987
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Abstract
Introduction
The directional differentiation of stem cells provides an important approach to cell therapy for the treatment of neurological diseases (1,2). However, two primary issues remain to be resolved: The determination of appropriate seed cells and the identification of efficient inducers. The multi-directional differentiation potential of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which has been well characterized by in vitro culture and auto-transplantation approaches, has resulted in these cells being widely used as seed cells for cell therapy. Meanwhile, the potential usage of neurotrophins as inducers of stem cell differentiation has received considerable attention (3,4). Neuritin (Nrn1 or CPG15), a neurotrophic factor that was identified in a study of plasticity-related genes, has been demonstrated to promote neurite growth and the survival of cortical neurons (5,6). While the effects of neuritin on cell differentiation have yet to be reported, results obtained in a previous study suggest that neuritin is involved in this process (7).
In the present study, the effects of neuritin on the directional differentiation of MSCs toward neuron-like (NL) cells were evaluated by analyzing cell morphology, expression levels of neuronal markers, and neuronal functions of rat bone marrow-derived MSCs (rBM-MSCs) treated with recombinant neuritin protein purified from Pichia pastoris (8).
Materials and methods
Ethics statement
Animal experiments were performed in accordance with the National Institute of Health Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Formal approval to conduct the experiments described was obtained from the Animal Subjects Review board of The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University School of Medicine (Shihezi, China; permit no.: 2011LL02). All efforts were made to minimize suffering.
Isolation and culturing of rat MSCs
In the present study, male and female Sprague-Dawley rats (n=25; age, 4–6 weeks; weight, 80–100 g) (provided by the Institute of Epidemiology, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi, China) were housed under standardized laboratory conditions in an air-conditioned room at constant temperature (23±2°C) and relative humidity of 45±5% on a 12 h light/dark cycle, with free access to food and water. Rats were sacrificed by cervical dislocation, and the tibias and femurs were isolated under sterile conditions, as previously described (9,10). Both ends of the bone were cut to expose the bone marrow cavity, and bone marrow cells were collected by rinsing with 5 ml L-Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's medium (DMEM; cat. no. SH30022.01; Hyclone; GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Logan, UT, USA) followed by centrifugation at 156 × g for 10 min at room temperature. The harvested cells were then seeded in culture dishes at a density of 1×106 cells/ml in L-DMEM/Nutrient Mixture F12 (cat. no. 12400024; Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; cat. no. 12478020; Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 µg/ml streptomycin, and cultivated at 37°C in a 5% CO2 incubator for 24 h, following which non-adherent cells were removed. The culture medium was replaced every 3 days until the cells reached 90% confluency. Cells were then digested by treatment with 1 ml 0.125% trypsin (cat. no. 25200072; Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) for 5–8 min at 37°C, mixed with 1 ml L-DMEM, and centrifuged at 156 × g for 10 min at room temperature. Collected cells were then subcultured at a 1:2 ratio. The third passage of MSCs were used for in vitro experiments.
Neuronal induction
rBM-MSCs (4×103 cells/ml) were initially maintained in DMEM containing 10% FBS. The medium was replaced with pre-induction medium consisting of DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS 24 h prior to induction, and 20 ng/ml basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF; cat. no. 13256029; Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). To initiate neuronal differentiation, the pre-induction medium was removed, and cells were washed with PBS and incubated in neuronal induction medium, which consisted of DMEM supplemented with 20 ng/ml bFGF, 2% B-27 supplement (cat. no. 0050129SA; Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), and 0.5–2.0 µg/ml neuritin (derived from Pichia pastoris) (8). Cells were incubated in media containing His-tagged protein (cat. no. bs-0287P; Bioss, Beijing, China) and 2% B-27 supplement wasused as a negative control.
Optimization of the induction conditions for MSC differentiation
The number of cells exhibiting NL morphology was counted in five randomly selected fields (minimum of 100 cells/field) at 0, 6, 24, 48 and 72 h post-induction. The percentage of positive NL cells was calculated as follows: positive NL cells (%) = (number of NL cells/total number of cells) ×100%.
To enumerate viable cells, trypan blue (0.4%) was added to cell suspensions (4×103 cells/ml) at a ratio of 1:9 (v/v). Cells that absorbed trypan blue were considered non-viable, and viable cells were counted using a hemocytometer (cat. no. 02270113; QiuJing, Shanghai, China) at a magnification of ×400 under a light microscope within 3 min of dying. The total cell numbers of 4 large fields of the hemocytometer were counted according to the principle that cells above or to the left of the boundary line were recorded. The percentage of viable cells was calculated as follows: viable cells (%)=[1.00-(number of blue cells/total cell numbers)] ×100%.
Analysis of MSC phenotypes by immunofluorescence microscopy
Slides with MSCs (2.5×104 cells/ml) from the third passage were rinsed three times with PBS and fixed with PBS containing 4% paraformaldehyde for 30 min at room temperature. The following operations were performed using a wet box: 5 min washing with PBS, repeated 3 times, and slides containing MSCs were incubated in blocking solution containing 10% goat serum (cat. no. ZLI-9022; OriGene Technologies, Inc., Beijing, China) for 30 min at room temperature. Cells were subsequently incubated overnight at 4°C with the following primary antibodies: CD29 (1:100; cat. no. bs-20630R; Bioss), CD90 (1:100; cat. no. bs-0778R; Bioss), CD34 (1:100; cat. no. bs-0646R; Bioss), CD44 (1:100; cat. no. bs-0521R; Bioss), or CD45 (1:100; cat. no. bs-0522R; Bioss). PBS was utilized as a negative control. Subsequently, cells were incubated with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) -labeled goat anti-rabbit IgG (1:100; cat. no. ab6717; Abcam, Cambridge, UK) for 2 h at 25°C in the dark, washed with PBS, and observed in five randomly selected fields (minimum 100 cells/field) by fluorescence microscopy (Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany).
Detection of neural markers by immunofluorescence microscopy
rBM-MSCs (2.5×104 cells/ml) were grown on coverslips, as described, and treated with different concentrations (0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2.0 µg/ml) of recombinant neuritin for 24 h. Slides with MSCs were rinsed with 37°C PBS (pH=7.2) three times, each time for 3 min, fixed by incubating in cold (−20°C) acetone for 15 min, and then washed with PBS and blocked as described above. Cells were incubated overnight at 4°C with the following primary antibodies: Anti-neuron-specific enolase (NSE; 1:500; cat. no. ab217778; Abcam), anti-microtubule associate protein 2 (MAP2; 1:500; cat. no. ab32454; Abcam), or anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP; 1:750; cat. no. ab7260; Abcam). PBS was utilized as a negative control. Cells were subsequently treated with a FITC-labeled goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody (1:100; cat. no. ab6717; Abcam) for 1 h at 25°C in the dark, washed with PBS, and observed in five randomly selected fields (minimum 100 cells/field) under a fluorescence microscope (Carl Zeiss AG).
Western blot analysis
rBM-MSCs (8×106 cells/ml) were treated with 0.5 µg/ml neuritin for 24 h. The cells were rinsed twice in ice-cold PBS (pH 7.5) and lysed with radioimmunoprecipitation assay buffer (cat. no. R0010; Solarbio, China) containing 1 mM PMSF (cat. no. P0100; Beijing Solarbio Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China), and placed on ice for 30 min. The cell lysates were centrifuged at 5,000 × g for 10 min at 4°C. The extractive proteins were then separated by 10% SDS-PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes. Membranes were blocked by incubating in Tris-buffered saline containing 0.05% Tween-20 and 5% nonfat dry milk for 1 h at room temperature, and then probed with MAP2 (1:1,000), NSE (1:1,000), and GFAP-specific (1:500) primary antibodies diluted in blocking buffer overnight at 4°C. Subsequently, the membranes were incubated with a horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody (goat anti-mouse; 1:50,000; cat. no. ZB-2301; OriGene Technologies, Inc.) for 1 h at room temperature, and proteins were visualized by enhanced chemiluminescence (cat. no. WBKLS0500; EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA). Detection of β-actin (mouse anti-β-actin; cat. no. sc-47778; 1:1,500; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc., Dallas, TX, USA) was performed as an internal loading control.
Thin-layer chromatography (TLC)
The induced cell culture (4×103 cells/ml) was blast chilled and ground into powder (Freeze Dryer Series; SIM International Group Co., Ltd., Beijing, China). The powder was dissolved with 1 ml carbinol and uninduced cell culture powder was used as control. The dissolved powder samples, as well as serotonin (used as a standard), were spotted on a thin-layer chromatogram plate and treated with an n-butyl alcohol-acetic acid-ddH2O solution (4:1:5). The chromatograph was then sprayed with the color developing agent O-phthaldialdehyde (1 g in 100 mlethanol) and incubated at 110°C for 20 min.
Electrophysiological recordings
Conventional whole-cell recordings were performed as previously described (11). Briefly, cells exhibiting neuron-like morphologies were selected for analysis, while uninduced MSCs were used as a control. Recording pipettes were pulled from borosilicate glass capillaries with a filament using a Sutter Instruments P-97 puller (Sutter Instrument Company, Novato, CA, USA). The pipette had a resistance of ~5 MΩ uponbeing filled with an internal solution comprised as follows: 150 mM NaCl, 5.0 mM KCl, 2.5 mM CaCl2, 1.0 mM MgCl2, 5.0 mM glucose and 10 mM 3-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinyl] propanesulfonic acid. The passive membrane properties and ion channel of the cell samples were determined by stimulating the cells with 20 mV hyperpolarizing steps in a voltage clamp. The holding membrane potential was −60 mV. The membrane currents or voltage signals were low-pass filtered at 10 kHz (−3 dB) using an Axon 700B amplifier (Axon Instruments; Molecular Devices LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, USA), and were digitized (Axon Digidata 1440; Axon Instruments; Molecular Devices LLC) and analyzed using a pCLAMP (pClamp 10.2; Axon Instruments; Molecular Devices LLC). All experiments were performed at room temperature.
Statistical analysis
The results are presented as the mean ± standard deviation. Repeated measures analysis of variance and the least significant difference (LSD) post hoc test, and independent sample Student's t-tests, were utilized to detect differences between results. SPSS 20.0 software (IBM SPSS, Inc., Armonk, NY, USA) was utilized for all statistical analyses. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
Results
Characterization of cultured MSCs
Isolated rBM-MSCs were cultured and subjected to the whole-cell adherence screening method as described previously (12). Cell colonies were observed 96 h following primary culture, and the cells were spindled or polygonal in shape (Fig. 1A). Following three passages, the morphology of the cells was fibroblast-like, and was consistent with that of MSCs (Fig. 1B). Indirect immunofluorescence analysis detected the expression of the MSC-specific surface antigens CD29, CD44, and CD90 in P3 cells (Fig. 1C-E, respectively), but not the hematopoietic stem cell-specific surface antigens CD34 and CD45 (Fig. 1F and G, respectively), which appeared the same as the blank control (Fig. 1H). These findings indicated that the P3 cultures were comprised of MSCs.
Optimization of cell differentiation conditions
No significant change in the number of positive NL cells in the control group was detected at any time point tested (Fig. 2A). By contrast, the number of positive NL cells in each of the neuritin groups increased steadily with time, and were significantly increased at 6 h onwards compared with present at the 0 h time point (P<0.05; Fig. 2A). Notably, the number of positive cells in each neuritin treatment group was significantly higher at 24 h than at any other time point (P<0.05; Fig. 2A).
There was a dose-dependent increase in the number of NL cells at neuritin concentrations between 0 and 0.5 µg/ml (Fig. 2B). However, following 24 h induction, the number of positive cells was significantly higher in the 0.5 µg/ml neuritin group than in the other treatment groups (P<0.05; Fig. 2B). Therefore, 0.5 µg/ml neuritin was utilized as the induction concentration for further experiments.
To exclude the possibility that treatment with the inducer resultedin cytotoxic effects on the rBM-MSCs, the viability of treated cells was examined by trypan blue staining. The viability of the cells induced with 0.5 µg/ml neuritin was significantly higher than that of the control group at 24, 48 and 72 h (P<0.05; Fig. 2C), but not at the 6 h time point (Fig. 2C).
Together, these results indicated that optimal production of NL cells was achieved by treatment of rBM-MSCs with 0.5 µg/ml neuritin for 24 h.
Characterization of the morphology and the expression patterns of neuron-specific proteins in MSCs treated with neuritin
Cells in the control group exhibited a fibroblast-like morphology (Fig. 3A). Following treatment with 0.5 µg/ml neuritin for 24 h, however, 27% of the rBM-MSCs exhibited typical NL cell morphologies (13) with long processes (Fig. 3B). The cell body condensed and became refractile, and the cells formed a network with bipolar or multipolar neurites.
To confirm that the NL cells were of a neuronal lineage, indirect immunofluorescence was utilized to examine the expression of neuron-specific proteins. The mature neural marker NSE (Fig. 3C and D) and the dendritic marker MAP2 (Fig. 3E and F) were expressed in the NL cells but not in the control cells. Meanwhile, neither the neuritin-treated nor the control cells exhibited positive expression of the astrocyte marker GFAP (Fig. 3G and H). Similar findings were obtained by western blot analysis (Fig. 3I). These results indicated that rBM-MSCs acquired the cellular characteristics of cells in the neuronal lineage, but not of astrocytes, following neuritin treatment.
Characterization of the neuronal functions of NL cells
To establish whether the NL cells produced by neuritin treatment exhibited neuronal functions, the electrophysiological properties of these cells were analyzed by whole-cell patch clamp recording. The membrane capacitance (CM) and resting membrane potential (RP) of the NL and control cells were 31.56±4.53 pF (n=8) and 15.55±2.40 pF (n=6), and −49.01±4.76 mV (n=8) and −22.00±2.95 mV (n=6), respectively; and these differences were statistically significant (P<0.01; Table I). The ionic current of the neuritin-treated and control cells were then measured using the voltage clamp method. No apparent channel opening was observed in the control cells (Fig. 4A), but an outward delayed rectifying current was detected in the treatment group with increasing voltage (Fig. 4B and C), which may indicate the presence of a voltage-dependent K+ current. These results suggested that the K+ channel maybe observed concomitantly with morphological changes and the expression of certain neuron-specific protein markers. Lastly, TLC was utilized to examine whether the neurotransmitter 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) was secreted from neuritin-induced MSCs. A 5-HT-specific signal was detected in the neuritin but not the control sample (Fig. 4D).
Table I.Comparison of membrane properties between the control group and NL cells following induction. |
Discussion
The incidence of neurodegenerative diseases hasincreased with aging in the population, but effective methods are still lacking for treating these diseases. While nerve cell therapy is currently considered one of the most promising solutions to these diseases, there are several barriers including cell source deficiency, immunological rejection, safety and ethical conflicts, which continue to limit the application of this treatment. However, previous studies have reported that stem cells exhibit the potential to differentiate into nerve cells, which maybe advantageous for nerve cell transplantation therapy (14,15).
MSCs are progenitor cells with multilineage differentiation potential. These cells are capable of differentiating into osteoblasts, chondrocytes and adipocytes from the mesoderm (16) and into neurons from the ectoderm (17). Furthermore, due to several unique advantages including good self-renewal capability, proliferating well in in vitro culture, adequate resources, convenient access and the capacity to be auto-transplanted, the rarity of immunological rejection and the lack of ethical complications, MSCs are becoming an important option for use as seed cells for cell replacement therapy.
While the bone marrow MSC content is limited (18), the present studyovercame this obstacle by adherent culturing of rBM-MSCs in vitro. Following the third passage, the cells exhibited a typical MSC morphology (19) and expressed the MSC-specific surface antigens CD29, CD44 and CD90 (20), but not the hematopoietic stem cell-specific surface antigens CD34 and CD45 (21). These results therefore excluded the possibility that the cells were of hematopoietic origin.
Differentiation is a complex process involving the activity of multiple factors. Combination induction is currently the most extensively applied approach for inducing the differentiation of MSCs into neurons (22). In accordance with the Woodbury method (23), in the present study MSCs were induced with neuritin following pre-induction with bFGF. The optimal induction condition was established through detection of the number of NL cells combined with the cell viability by which cytotoxicity caused by the inducer was excluded (24,25), and it was determined that exposure to 0.5 µg/ml neuritin for 24 h comprised the optimal conditions for stimulating the differentiation of MSCs into NL cells. Indeed, under these conditions, MSCs effectively differentiated into typical NL cells that contained neurites. The NL cells were then characterized by examining the expression levels of specific neuronal markers and by observing certain physiological functions. Immunofluorescence and western blot analyses indicated that the NL cells expressed the mature neural marker NSE (26) and the dendritic cell marker MAP2 (3,27), but not the astrocyte marker GFAP (28). These findings demonstrated that the rBM-MSCs treated with neuritin differentiated into the neuronal lineage and not into astrocytes. However, while the cell morphology and the expression of neural-specific markers partially reflected the level of cell differentiation, the functional characterization of the NL cells was the key indicator for evaluating cell differentiation (29). By patch clamp analysis, differences in the CM and RP values were detected in the NL cells compared with those of the control. An increased CM indicates increased surface area of the cell membrane, and is evidence supporting cellular vesicle secretion (30). Notably, the detection of 5-HT secretion by NL cells in the present study is consistent with an increased CM. Furthermore, secretion of this neurotransmitter is an important indicator of neuron function. Meanwhile, the observed decrease in RP denotes that the NL cells exhibited a membrane potential similar to that of mature neurons, thereby confirming that the cells were indeed differentiating into the neuronal lineage (31). Finally, the delayed rectifier K+-current recorded by the whole-cell voltage clamp method indicated that the NL cells exhibited the K+ properties of neurons. This finding was consistent with the results obtained by physiological analysis of differentiated embryo-derived neural stem cells (32,33).
In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that neuritin-induced MSCs differentiated into NL cells. These cells exhibited typical neuronal morphological features, expression of neuronal markers and secretion of the neurotransmitter 5-HT. Furthermore, these NL cells exhibited partial neural-electrophysiological functions. The results of the present study therefore demonstrated that neuritin is involved in the directional differentiation potential of MSCs into NL cells. Although still in a nascent stage, this novel methodology may provide an alternative, potentially complementary tool for disease modeling and the development of cell-based therapies.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Professor Ketao Ma (Shihezi University, Shihezi, China) for the technical assistance with the patch clamp. The present study was supported by the Key Project of Xinjiang Province (grant. no. 2014AB048), the Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project of Hangzhou (grant. no. 20152013A01) and the Key Project of Shihezi University (grant no. ZRKX2010ZD03).
Glossary
Abbreviations
Abbreviations:
bFGF |
basic fibroblast growth factor |
CM |
membrane capacitance |
GFAP |
glial fibrillary acidic protein |
5-HT |
5-hydroxytryptamine |
MAP2 |
microtubule associated protein-2 |
NSE |
neuron-specific enolase |
RP |
resting membrane potential |
rBM-MSCs |
rat bone marrow-mesenchymal stem cells |
TLC |
thin layer chromatography |
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