Abstract:
Objective
The purpose of this study was to investigate theexpression of pluripotency markers Sox2, c-Myc and hTert in the subpopulations of human bone marrow stromal cells with in vitro culture.
Methods
Human BMSCs were culture with limiting dilution method, 3 samples were selected from fast-, slow-growing clones and mixed culture BMSCs respectively. The expression of Sox2, c-Myc and hTert was investigated by immunofluorescent staining and quantitative Realtime PCR analysis. Statistics analysis was applied.
Results
Sox2 showed positive nucleus expression in fastgrowing clones, and cytoplasm expression in other groups. Sox2 mRNA displayed significantly higher expression level compared with other groups (P<0.05). c-Myc and hTert showed similar expression pattern which demonstrated a nucleus location in fast-growing clones and mixed cultured BMSCs,albeit cytoplasm staining in slow-growing clones. Whereas the c-Myc and hTert mRNA showed no difference among three groups (P>0.05).
Conclusions
BMSCs from fast-growing clones demonstrated higher expression of reprogramming markers compared with slow-growing clones, indicating that colony forming efficiency may be related with the pluripotency and reprogramming capability of BMSCs. c-Myc and hTert may interact cooperatively during this process.
Key words:
Bone marrow stromal cells,
Subpopulations,
Pluripotency markers
Lu LIU, Xi WEI, Jun-qi LING, Zheng-jun PENG, Li-ping WU. The expression of pluripotency markers in the subpopulations of human bone marrow stromal cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Stomatological Research(Electronic Edition), 2012, 6(05): 405-409.