A human beta cell line with drug inducible excision of immortalizing transgenes

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Beitragende

  • Marion Benazra - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Sorbonne Université (Autor:in)
  • Marie José Lecomte - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Autor:in)
  • Claire Colace - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Sorbonne Université (Autor:in)
  • Andreas Müller - , Molekulare Diabetologie, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung (DZD e.V.) (Autor:in)
  • Cécile Machado - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Autor:in)
  • Severine Pechberty - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Autor:in)
  • Emilie Bricout-Neveu - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Autor:in)
  • Maud Grenier-Godard - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Autor:in)
  • Michele Solimena - , Molekulare Diabetologie, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung (DZD e.V.), Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Autor:in)
  • Raphaël Scharfmann - , INSERM - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Autor:in)
  • Paul Czernichow - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (Autor:in)
  • Philippe Ravassard - , Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Sorbonne Université (Autor:in)

Abstract

Objectives: Access to immortalized human pancreatic beta cell lines that are phenotypically close to genuine adult beta cells, represent a major tool to better understand human beta cell physiology and develop new therapeutics for Diabetes. Here we derived a new conditionally immortalized human beta cell line, EndoC-βH3 in which immortalizing transgene can be efficiently removed by simple addition of tamoxifen. Methods: We used lentiviral mediated gene transfer to stably integrate a tamoxifen inducible form of CRE (CRE-ERT2) into the recently developed conditionally immortalized EndoC βH2 line. The resulting EndoC-βH3 line was characterized before and after tamoxifen treatment for cell proliferation, insulin content and insulin secretion. Results: We showed that EndoC-βH3 expressing CRE-ERT2 can be massively amplified in culture. We established an optimized tamoxifen treatment to efficiently excise the immortalizing transgenes resulting in proliferation arrest. In addition, insulin expression raised by 12 fold and insulin content increased by 23 fold reaching 2 μg of insulin per million cells. Such massive increase was accompanied by enhanced insulin secretion upon glucose stimulation. We further observed that tamoxifen treated cells maintained a stable function for 5 weeks in culture. Conclusions: EndoC βH3 cell line represents a powerful tool that allows, using a simple and efficient procedure, the massive production of functional non-proliferative human beta cells. Such cells are close to genuine human beta cells and maintain a stable phenotype for 5 weeks in culture.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)916-925
Seitenumfang10
FachzeitschriftMolecular metabolism
Jahrgang4
Ausgabenummer12
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2015
Peer-Review-StatusJa

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ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Schlagwörter

  • Cell engineering, Conditional immortalization, Human beta cell function, Human pancreatic beta cell line, Tamoxifen inducible CRE

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