Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (6): 841-846.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.06.004

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Autophagy-related gene Beclin-1 expression in neuron-like differentiation of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Yang Yi, Ding Wen-jing, Dong Wan-li   

  1. The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu Province, China
  • Revised:2014-01-10 Online:2014-02-05 Published:2014-02-05
  • Contact: Dong Wan-li, M.D., Professor, Chief physician, Master’s supervisor, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu Province, China
  • About author:Yang Yi, Studying for master’s degree, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu Province, China Ding Wen-jing, Studying for master’s degree, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu Province, China Yang Yi and Ding Wen-jing contributed equally to this paper.
  • Supported by:

    the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, No. SBK201123617

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells have potential to self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation. But after a long period of culture in vitro, the proliferation and differentiation capacities of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells gradually loss, the mechanism underlying which is not clear now.

OBJECTIVE: To observe the expression of autophagy-related gene Beclin-1 in differentiation from human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into neuron-like cells in vitro.
METHODS: The changes of morphological characteristics of neuron-like cells differentiated from human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells induced by epidermal growth factor were observed. The expression of neuron-specific enolase and glial fibrillary acidic protein in treated and untreated human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were detected using immunocytochemistry. The Beclin-1 protein expressions were detected by western blot before and after induction.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: After being induced, human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells presented classical neuron-like morphology; the expressions of neuron-specific enolase and glial fibrillary acidic protein were 78.7% and 8.1%, respectively. The expression of Beclin-1 protein was changed correspondingly during the induction, which increased after 30 minutes of induction and decreased gradually after 1 hour of induction. Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells could be induced into neuron-like cells in vitro by epidermal growth factor. Autophagy-related gene was highly expressed in the induction of early differentiation and the expression gradually reduced until it remained at a low level during the differentiation.


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Key words: autophagy, cell differentiation, mesenchymal stem cells, glial fibrillary acidic protein, neurons

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