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Stem Cells & Differentiation Flashcards

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Differentiation (unspecialized to specialized)

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Occurs in

  1. Embryo - embryonic development
  2. After birth- growth
  3. Adulthood - maintenance
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Differentiation

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Distinct ID differential gene expression (morphology & phenotype) also involved in differential gene expression

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Differentiation can be triggered by __________

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Extracellular signals (inducer to responder)

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Fully differentiated

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  1. Terminally differentiated, stop dividing & stable state (have major structural change)
  2. Blood stem cells - red blood cells lose nucleus & become hemoglobin, white blood cells have multibody nucleus & are granules
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Genes for differentiation

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RTFs master regulators that are necessary & sufficient for differentiation

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MyoD

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  1. RTF muscle differentiation
  2. Mutate- no muscle (necessary)
  3. Ectopic expression-muscle (sufficient)
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Muscle differentiation

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  1. somites → myoblasts → muscle (Pax3+ + Pax7+ committed, but not differentiated)
  2. myoblasts divide & stop dividing
  3. Differentiation make muscle proteins & structural changes (fuse → myotubes → muscle fibers)
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Muscle stem cells

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Satellite cells (injury → activation → regeneration)

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Blood differentiation

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Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) where its niche is bone marrow, stem cell hallmarks have self-renewal & multipotent

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Stem cells

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Self-renewal asymmetric division

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Skin differentiation

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epidermis outer, harsh environ. regenerate (stem cells niche)

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Gut differentiation

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Gut lining, harsh environ.

regenerate every 4 days (stem cell niche)

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Adult stem cells (ASCs) (need niche)

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  1. multipotent (limited)
  2. HSCs (blood)
  3. satellite cells (muscle)
  4. gut stem cells (gut)
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Embryonic stem cells (ESCs)(don’t need niche)

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  1. pluripotent (not limited)
  2. Make all 3 germ layer
  3. Inner Cell Mass of blastocyst (ICM)
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Mouse ESCs

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  1. Self-renewal in vitro
  2. Indefinity (no niche)
  3. Pluripotent- inject into blastocyst make all 3 germ layers
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ESCs can lead to ________

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Disease cells

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Maintaining mouse ESCs

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  1. LIF + BMP
  2. Increase Oct 3/4, Sox2, Esrrb, Kfl4 (RTFs)
  3. Decrease differentiation
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Mouse epiSCs (5 days old)

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  1. Epiblast stem cells (not ESCs)
  2. Pluripotent in vitro like ESCs
  3. Can’t form chimera in new animals in vivo unlike ESCs
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Human ESCs (not ethical)

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  1. Same RTFs as mouse ESCs
  2. Maintain stemness in culture
  3. FGF + Nodal (unlike mouse ESCs)
  4. BMP → differentiation (unlike mouse ESCs)
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Human ESCs is similar to ________

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Mouse epiSCs

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Plasticity of differentiated cells

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  1. Can dedifferentiate
  2. Lose differentiated characteristics become “stem cell”
    go backwards (divide)
  3. can transdifferentiate no dedifferentiation to diff. cell type
  4. Test by cloning if a mature nucleus can support embryonic development
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Cloning (frogs)

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  1. Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), somatic nucleus can support embryonic development
  2. Adult nucleus are old & decrease efficiency & tadpole nucleus is young increase efficiency
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Cloning experiment (frogs)

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  1. Adult nucleus ↓ efficiency
  2. Tadpole nucleus ↑ efficiency
  3. Blastocyst nucleus ↑↑ efficiency
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Genomic equivalence (Frogs)

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  1. Adult nucleus similar to embryonic nucleus

2. No permanent changes to DNA

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Cloning in mammals (mouse or sheep like dolly)

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  1. Most die before birth, if survive they became sick
  2. Low efficiency, where it had incomplete reprogramming of nucleus, reverse epigenetic changes, DNA methylation, & histone modification
  3. Improper expression (5% of total genes & 50% of imprinted genes)
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Cloning in humans

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  1. Therapeutic cloning to blastocyst stage (not implanted)

2. Isolate ESCs for research

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Cloning in human have a ________

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14-day rule (individualization)- starts gastrulation & stops twinning or fusion

28
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Reproductive cloning

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Cloned embryo which led to a cloned uterus which led to a cloned baby (banned)

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Therapeutic cloning

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Cloning by SCNT, cloned embryo matches the patient, human beings can still give twins (no gastrulation) but it also destroys blastocyst

30
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Is IVF ethical?

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Extra embryos (frozen, donated, discarded)

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Reprogramming by cell fusion

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  1. Fuse 2 cells (common in cytoplasm, tetraploid)
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Chick blood cell

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  1. No transcription
  2. Fuse with human cell, chick blood cell starts transcription
  3. Human cell reprogramed chick cell
    (shows conservation)
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Human liver cells

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1. Fuse with mouse muscle
human cell (expresses muscle genes)
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_________ factors can reprogram

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Cytoplasmic

35
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Transdifferentiation

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  1. Reversible stability, change gene expression
  2. C. elegans- epithelium → neuron
  3. Common in regeneration
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Regenerative medicine

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  1. Organ donation- shortage for 3-5 years & rejection from immunosuppressive drugs
37
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Pros & Cons of ESCs

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  1. Pro: pluripotent

2. Con: Too potent tumor risk & may face rejection if not your own cells

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Pro & Cons of ASCs

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  1. Pro: no rejection if from self

2. Con: not pluripotent

39
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iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells)

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Skin cells + 4 genes → iPSCs, where the 4 genes are the different RTF (Oct 4, Sox2, Kfla4, c- Myc) & also iPSCs is equivalent to ESCs where they are self-renewal & pluripotent (chimera)

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Clinical trials with iPSCs

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  1. Macular degeneration
  2. Skin cells → iPSCs → eye cells
    (Injected into patients found not an immune match, had safe slight improvements & the injected cells led to mutations)
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Clinical trials with iPSCs (recently)

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Patient → iPSCs → eye cells → inject immune match (They started with the eyes because easy access
not vital, easy readout, & 2 eye)

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Skin cells → iPSCs → heart cells

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Spontaneously assemble beating in a dish

43
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Organoids

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Could make things like mini brains or mini kidneys

44
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Blastoids

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Artificial “embryo”( Implanted, no live embryo, but has placental cells)

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