期刊
STEM CELL REPORTS
卷 2, 期 2, 页码 219-231出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2013.12.014
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- Academy of Finland [218050, 133879]
- University of Tampere
- Tampere Graduate Program in Biomedicine and Biotechnology
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- University of Iowa, Iowa City [IA 52242]
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) offer unique opportunities for developing novel cell-based therapies and disease modeling. In this study, we developed a directed differentiation method for hiPSCs toward corneal epithelial progenitor cells capable of terminal differentiation toward mature corneal epithelial-like cells. In order to improve the efficiency and reproducibility of our method, we replicated signaling cues active during ocular surface ectoderm development with the help of two small-molecule inhibitors in combination with basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in serum-free and feeder-free conditions. First, small-molecule induction downregulated the expression of pluripotency markers while upregulating several transcription factors essential for normal eye development. Second, protein expression of the corneal epithelial progenitor marker p63 was greatly enhanced, with up to 95% of cells being p63 positive after 5 weeks of differentiation. Third, corneal epithelial-like cells were obtained upon further maturation.
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