Journal
PATHOLOGY & ONCOLOGY RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 1677-1685Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12253-019-00746-6
Keywords
Berberine; Dental pulp stem cells; Osteogenic differentiation; EGFR; MAPK
Funding
- Qingdao Medical Science and Technology Guiding Project [No.2017-WJZD125] Funding Source: Medline
- Qingdao Shinan District Science and Technology Development Fund [No.2016-3-042-YY] Funding Source: Medline
- Qingdao Stomatological Hospital Youth Fund Project [No.2018QN01] Funding Source: Medline
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Similar to the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) also have pluripotent differentiation characteristic and may be more ideal for tissue regeneration, especially in tooth regeneration engineering. However, bacterial infection may be a powerful obstacle. Berberine (BBR), known with antibacterial effects, was recently found to play functions in bone formation through promoting osteogenic differentiation from pluripotent stem cells. However, whether BBR also function in DPSCs osteogenic differentiation has not yet been reported. Primary DPSCs were isolated from dental pulp tissues extracted from human impacted mandibular third molars, and identified by flow cytometry for cell surface antigen molecules. A dexamethasone osteogenic medium was used to induce DPSCs osteogenic differentiation. BBR (1 mu M and 5 mu M) was pre-added to into medium, and then cell proliferation, spheroid formation and osteogenic differentiation capacities of DPSCs were analyzed, as well as the underlying molecules modulation mechanism. Flow cytometry identified that CD44, CD90, CD81 and CD105 positively expressed in the isolated hDPSCs, with CD34 and CD45 negetively expressed. BBR enhanced the cell proliferation of hDPSCs in a dose-dependent pattern, and promoted dexamethasone-induced osteogenic differentiation via enhancing Runx2 transcription factor activity followed by upregulating osteogenesis markers expression, whereas the adipogenic differentiation of hDPSCs was suppressed dramatically by BBR. The EGFR and MAPK pathways were activated by BBR, and inhibitors for these pathways significantly suppressed the osteogenic differentiation promotion of BBR. These results have revealed a novel mechanism that berberine might promote hDPSCs osteogenic differentiation through activating EGFR-MAPK-Runx2 signaling pathways.
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