中国组织工程研究 ›› 2022, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (17): 2726-2731.doi: 10.12307/2022.542

• 组织构建细胞学实验 cytology experiments in tissue construction • 上一篇    下一篇

骨形态发生蛋白7抑制椎间盘髓核细胞的凋亡

徐学振,宋立先,李爱群,杨  坚,李晓鲲,王占青,石青鹏   

  1. 滨州医学院烟台附属医院,山东省烟台市   264100
  • 收稿日期:2021-06-15 修回日期:2021-06-17 接受日期:2021-08-14 出版日期:2022-06-18 发布日期:2021-12-27
  • 通讯作者: 石青鹏,硕士,副主任医师,滨州医学院烟台附属医院,山东省烟台市 264100
  • 作者简介:徐学振,1984年生,2011年哈尔滨医科大学毕业,硕士,副主任医师,主要从事骨组织方面的研究。
  • 基金资助:
    山东省医药卫生科技发展计划项目(2019WS340),项目名称:不同代次兔髓核种子细胞超低温保存的实验研究,项目负责人:徐学振

Bone morphogenetic protein 7 inhibits apoptosis of nucleus pulposus cells

Xu Xuezhen, Song Lixian, Li Aiqun, Yang Jian, Li Xiaokun, Wang Zhanqing, Shi Qingpeng   

  1. Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, Shandong Province, China
  • Received:2021-06-15 Revised:2021-06-17 Accepted:2021-08-14 Online:2022-06-18 Published:2021-12-27
  • Contact: Shi Qingpeng, Master, Associate chief physician, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, Shandong Province, China
  • About author:Xu Xuezhen, Master, Associate chief physician, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, Shandong Province, China
  • Supported by:
    Shandong Provincial Medicine and Health Science and Technology Development Plan, No. 2019WS340 (to XXZ)

摘要:

文题释义:
椎间盘髓核细胞:髓核是椎间盘内类似凝胶样的物质,由软骨样的细胞、胶原纤维和蛋白多糖组成,它的作用是在脊柱压缩负载的情况下全面地调节液压。椎间盘细胞存在于一个营养供应有限、缺氧、高渗、过酸和机械过载的特殊内环境中,因此除了自然衰老过程外,机械过载、椎间盘损伤、氧化应激损伤、糖尿病、吸烟、肥胖和遗传等都是椎间盘细胞衰老的危险因素,而髓核细胞体外培养可为研究椎间盘退变的细胞学及分子生物学机制提供实验基础。
骨形态发生蛋白:又称骨形成蛋白,是一组具有类似结构的高度保守的功能蛋白,属于转化生长因子β家族。骨形态发生蛋白能刺激DNA的合成和细胞的复制,从而促进间充质细胞定向分化为成骨细胞。它还是体内诱导骨和软骨形成的主要因子,并在肢体生长、软骨内骨化、骨折早期及软骨修复时表达,对骨骼的胚胎发育和再生修复起重要作用。

背景:椎间盘退变是引起下腰痛的主要原因之一,目前临床的手术治疗可以缓解疼痛症状,但会牺牲椎间盘的功能,无法完全治愈椎间盘退变,开发新的生物学治疗方法对于遏制早期椎间盘退变的进展,或再生退变的椎间盘组织是非常重要的。
目的:探讨骨形态发生蛋白7能否减轻人椎间盘髓核细胞在传代培养过程的细胞衰老及其可能机制。
方法:以行椎间盘摘除术的患者为研究对象,手术过程中获取椎间盘组织并提取人椎间盘髓核细胞体外传代培养6次。在培养基中外源性加入骨形态发生蛋白7或磷酯酰肌醇-3激酶特异性抑制剂LY294002,分别检测细胞增殖能力、端粒酶活性、β-半乳糖苷酶活性,以及细胞凋亡相关基因和磷酯酰肌醇-3激酶/蛋白激酶B信号通路分子的表达情况。
结果与结论:①细胞培养基中添加骨形态发生蛋白7后可以显著提高髓核细胞增殖能力和端粒酶活性,降低细胞β-半乳糖苷酶活性,并下调p16和p53的表达,激活磷酯酰肌醇-3激酶/蛋白激酶B信号通路;②此外通过磷酯酰肌醇-3激酶特异性抑制剂LY294002能够明显逆转骨形态发生蛋白7对髓核细胞的抗凋亡作用;③提示骨形态发生蛋白7通过激活磷酯酰肌醇-3激酶/蛋白激酶B途径发挥髓核细胞的抗凋亡作用,可为异体椎间盘髓核细胞的体外培养和组织工程学研究提供新思路。
缩略语:β-半乳糖苷酶:senescence-associated β-galactosidase,SA-β-Gal;磷酯酰肌醇-3激酶/蛋白激酶B:phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase/ protein kinase B,PI3K/Akt

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3778-6783 (徐学振) 

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:组织构建;骨细胞;软骨细胞;细胞培养;成纤维细胞;血管内皮细胞;骨质疏松;组织工程

关键词: 椎间盘再生, 髓核细胞, 骨形态发生蛋白7, 细胞凋亡

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Disc degeneration is one of the major causes of lower back pain, and current clinical surgical treatments can relieve painful symptoms but sacrifice disc function and cannot completely cure disc degeneration. Therefore, it is important to develop new biological treatments to curb the progression of early disc degeneration, or to regenerate degenerated disc tissue.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether bone morphogenetic protein 7 can reduce the senescence of human nucleus pulposus cells during subculture and its possible mechanism. 
METHODS: Patients who underwent discectomy were enrolled in this study. During the operation, the intervertebral disc tissue was obtained and human nucleus pulposus cells were extracted and subcultured in vitro for six times. The cells were then cultured with bone morphogenetic protein 7 or LY294002, a specific inhibitor of phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase. Cell proliferation ability, telomerase activity, β-galactosidase activity, and the expression of apoptosis-related genes and phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B signaling pathway molecules were detected. 
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Bone morphogenetic protein 7 could significantly increase the cell proliferation and telomerase activity of nucleus pulposus cells, decrease the activity of β-galactosidase, down-regulate the expression of p16 and p53, and activate phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B signaling pathway. In addition, LY294002 could significantly reverse the anti-apoptotic effect of bone morphogenetic protein 7 on nucleus pulposus cells. Overall, bone morphogenetic protein 7 exerts the anti-apoptotic effect on nucleus pulposus cells by activating the phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B signaling pathway. The results of this study can provide new knowledge for in vitro culture and tissue engineering of allogenic nucleus pulposus cells.

Key words: intervertebral disc regeneration, nucleus pulposus cells, bone morphogenetic protein 7, apoptosis

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