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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 295, Issue 2, Pages 354-361Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00661-7
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mesenchymal stem cell; telomerase; immortalization; HPV16E6; HPV16E7; Rb; p16; differentiation
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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are bone marrow stroma-derived cells, which can differentiate into several types of mesenchymal tissues. Although regarded as tissue-specific stem cells, human MSCs (hMSCs) have a low proliferative ability with a finite life span, which is a hurdle to further analysis of their biology. Here we attempted to establish immortalized hMSCs by retrovirus-mediated gene transfer. The gain in telomerase activity obtained on expression of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) was found not to be enough to make the cell line immortal. A combination of hTERT with human papillomavirus E6 and E7 successfully immortalized hMSCs without affecting the potential for adipogenic, osteogenic, and chondrogenic differentiation. From the parental immortalized hMSC, 100 single-cell derived clones were established, of which the differentiation properties varied considerably, including tri-, bi-, and uni-directional clones, suggesting that hMSCs are constituted by a group of cells with different differentiation potential. These cell lines, being the first established immortalized clonal cell lines of hMSCs, could provide insights into the mechanisms regulating the early steps of differentiation from undifferentiated MSCs into a specific lineage. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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