中国组织工程研究 ›› 2023, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (34): 5505-5509.doi: 10.12307/2023.751

• 生物材料基础实验 basic experiments of biomaterials • 上一篇    下一篇

多模态影像分子体外验证触液神经元的神经干细胞特性

罗张荣1,曹  亮1,张  毅1,皮文俊1,李  青2   

  1. 1贵州医科大学临床医学院,贵州省贵阳市   550025;2贵州医科大学附属医院创伤骨科,贵州省贵阳市   550004
  • 收稿日期:2022-10-12 接受日期:2022-12-12 出版日期:2023-12-08 发布日期:2023-04-22
  • 通讯作者: 李青, 博士,教授,贵州医科大学附属医院创伤骨科,贵州省贵阳市 550004
  • 作者简介:罗张荣,男,1996年生,四川省达州市人, 汉族,贵州医科大学在读硕士,主要从事脊柱脊髓损伤方面的研究。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(81960234,81860516),项目负责人:李青

Characteristics of neural stem cells of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons verified by multimodal imaging molecules in vitro

Luo Zhangrong1, Cao Liang1, Zhang Yi1, Pi Wenjun1, Li Qing2   

  1. 1School of Clinical Medicine, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China; 2Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550004, Guizhou Province, China
  • Received:2022-10-12 Accepted:2022-12-12 Online:2023-12-08 Published:2023-04-22
  • Contact: Li Qing, MD, Professor, Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550004, Guizhou Province, China
  • About author:Luo Zhangrong, Master candidate, School of Clinical Medicine, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China
  • Supported by:
     the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81960234, 81860516 (to LQ)

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文题释义:

多模态影像分子:集合了2种及以上成像技术。该实验中的多模态影像分子包含了荧光成像和生物发光成像2种成像方式,可在体内、外示踪触液神经元。前者成像原理是影像分子在触液神经元中表达的绿色荧光蛋白经入射光照射后发出一定波长的出射光,通过荧光显微镜在体外示踪触液神经元,后者成像原理是影像分子在触液神经元中表达的荧光素酶与相应底物反应后发出探针信号,通过小动物活体成像仪在体内示踪触液神经元。
触液神经元:是脊髓中央管内直接接触脑脊液并穿越实质的神经元亚群,100年前该细胞群被首次发现至今,其功能还不甚明了。以往研究认为其主要功能是机械和化学感受器,感受脑脊液的理化性质变化。课题组近期在体内、外首次发现触液神经元具有神经干细胞潜能。由于触液神经元在哺乳动物体内数量稀少,在脊髓中央管附近的细胞占比不超过5%,且目前尚无触液神经元细胞系的建立,因此需要获得纯度高且细胞活性好的触液神经元,同时获得的触液神经元能在体内、外被活体示踪,为将来运用触液神经元体内移植治疗脊髓损伤提供可靠细胞来源。

背景:最近研究发现位于脊髓中央管附近的接触脑脊液神经元(简称触液神经元)具有神经干细胞潜能,但触液神经元在体外研究中纯度不高,且目前尚无体外示踪技术证明其神经干细胞特性。
目的:通过多模态影像分子筛选并在体外验证触液神经元的神经干细胞特性。
方法:根据触液神经元特异性表达Pkd2l1基因,针对Pkd2l1基因上游启动子设计一种使触液神经元特异性表达绿色荧光蛋白(GFP)的多模态影像分子慢病毒(Lentivirus-Pkd2l1-GFP-puromycin-luciferase)。从出生24 h 内C57BL/6 小鼠延髓组织中提取出原代神经干细胞贴壁培养,用多模态影像分子病毒转染含有触液神经元的原代神经干细胞,通过嘌呤霉素筛选并纯化触液神经元。对筛选纯化的触液神经元进行体外悬浮培养并连续传代4代以上,免疫荧光检测第3代触液神经元与神经干细胞标记物Nestin、Sox2共表达情况。通过对第3代触液神经元诱导分化培养,免疫荧光检测触液神经元与神经元标记物NeuN、星形胶质细胞标记物S100β、少突胶质细胞标记物O4的共表达情况。

结果与结论:成功构建出多模态影像分子慢病毒,并且筛选纯化后的触液神经元能够存活、增殖并表达绿色荧光蛋白。绿色荧光蛋白阳性触液神经元能在体外连续传代4代以上,并表达神经干细胞标记物Nestin、Sox2。诱导分化后,绿色荧光蛋白阳性触液神经元表达神经元标记物NeuN、星形胶质细胞标记物S100β、少突胶质细胞标记物O4。结果表明:多模态影像分子病毒能特异性标记触液神经元,触液神经元在体外具有自我更新、多向分化能力,通过多模态影像分子在体外成功验证触液神经元具有神经干细胞特性。

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3259-2306 (罗张荣) 

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:生物材料;骨生物材料口腔生物材料纳米材料缓释材料材料相容性组织工程

关键词: 触液神经元, 神经干细胞, 多模态影像分子, 慢病毒, Pkd2l1

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Recently, it was found that cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons near the central canal of the spinal cord have the potential of neural stem cells, but the purity of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons in the in vitro research is not high, and there is no in vitro tracing technology to prove their neural stem cell characteristics.  
OBJECTIVE: To verify the characteristics of neural stem cells of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons by multimodal imaging molecules in vitro.
METHODS: According to the specific expression of the Pkd2l1 gene in cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons, a multimodal imaging molecular lentivirus was designed to specifically express a green fluorescent protein (GFP) in cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons according to the upstream promoter of Pkd2l1 gene. The primary neural stem cells were extracted from the medulla oblongata of C57BL/6 mice within 24 hours of birth, then the primary neural stem cells containing cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons were transfected with multimodal imaging molecular virus, and the cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons were screened and purified by puromycin. The screened and purified cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons were suspended in vitro and passaged continuously for more than four generations. Immunofluorescence was used to observe whether the third generation of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons co-expressed with neural stem cell markers Nestin and Sox2. The third generation of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons was induced to differentiate, and the co-expression of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons with neuronal marker NeuN, astrocyte marker S100 β and oligodendrocyte marker O4 was detected by immunofluorescence.  
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The multimodal imaging molecular lentivirus was successfully constructed, and the purified cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons could survive, proliferate and express GFP. GFP+ cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons could be passaged continuously for more than four generations in vitro, and express neural stem cell markers Nestin and Sox2. After induced differentiation, GFP+ cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons expressed neuron marker NeuN, astrocyte marker S100β and oligodendrocyte marker O4. It is concluded that cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons can be specifically labeled by multimodal image molecular viruses and show the ability of self-renewal and multidirectional differentiation, which adequately proves that cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons have the characteristics of neural stem cells in vitro.

Key words: cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neuron, neural stem cell, multimodal imaging molecule, lentivirus, Pkd2l1

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