Long-term expansion, genomic stability and in vivo safety of adult human pancreas organoids

BMC Developmental Biology

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Georgakopoulos, Nikitas¹  Curd, Abbie²  Ivory, Natasha²  Simons, Benjamin D.¹  Martincorena, Inigo⁴  Wurst, Helmut⁵  Saeb-Parsy, Kourosh²  Huch, Meritxell¹  Prior, Nicole¹  Angres, Brigitte⁵  Mastrogiovanni, Gianmarco¹  Cagan, Alex⁴  Harrison, Daisy¹  Hindley, Christopher J.¹  Arnes-Benito, Robert¹  Liau, Siong-Seng⁷ 

[1] The Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge;Cambridge Biorepository for Translational Medicine & Department of Surgery, University o.f Cambridge, and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre;Department of Physics, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge;Wellcome Sanger Institute;Cellendes GmbH;Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics;Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgical Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge

关键词: Pancreas;    Organoid;    In vivo safety;    Chemically defined hydrogel;    Genetic stability;    Primary cultures;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12861-020-0209-5

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: BioMed Central

【 摘 要 】

Pancreatic organoid systems have recently been described for the in vitro culture of pancreatic ductal cells from mouse and human. Mouse pancreatic organoids exhibit unlimited expansion potential, while previously reported human pancreas organoid (hPO) cultures do not expand efficiently long-term in a chemically defined, serum-free medium. We sought to generate a 3D culture system for long-term expansion of human pancreas ductal cells as hPOs to serve as the basis for studies of human pancreas ductal epithelium, exocrine pancreatic diseases and the development of a genomically stable replacement cell therapy for diabetes mellitus. Our chemically defined, serum-free, human pancreas organoid culture medium supports the generation and expansion of hPOs with high efficiency from both fresh and cryopreserved primary tissue. hPOs can be expanded from a single cell, enabling their genetic manipulation and generation of clonal cultures. hPOs expanded for months in vitro maintain their ductal morphology, biomarker expression and chromosomal integrity. Xenografts of hPOs survive long-term in vivo when transplanted into the pancreas of immunodeficient mice. Notably, mouse orthotopic transplants show no signs of tumorigenicity. Crucially, our medium also supports the establishment and expansion of hPOs in a chemically defined, modifiable and scalable, biomimetic hydrogel. hPOs can be expanded long-term, from both fresh and cryopreserved human pancreas tissue in a chemically defined, serum-free medium with no detectable tumorigenicity. hPOs can be clonally expanded, genetically manipulated and are amenable to culture in a chemically defined hydrogel. hPOs therefore represent an abundant source of pancreas ductal cells that retain the characteristics of the tissue-of-origin, which opens up avenues for modelling diseases of the ductal epithelium and increasing understanding of human pancreas exocrine biology as well as for potentially producing insulin-secreting cells for the treatment of diabetes.

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