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A novel feeder-free system for human embryonic stem cells and characterization of their sublines with autogenic and allogenic cultivation

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We developed a feeder-free system for human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) based on extracellular matrix protein (ECM) as the substrate. ECM was synthesized by mesenchymal stem cells (SC5-MSC) derived from an original ESC line, SC5. The ECM proteins fibronectin and laminin facilitate ESC growth in the feeder-free system. An important component of this system is a conditioned medium from SC5-MSC cells. Two ESC sublines were obtained: SC5-FF cells were cultured in an autogenic, and SC7-FF in an allogenic, feeder-free system. SC5-FF and SC7-FF underwent more than 300 and 115 population doublings, respectively, and retain a normal diploid karyotype. Histochemical and immunofluorescence assays showed that both sublines express undifferentiated ESC markers—alkaline phosphatase, Oct-4, SSEA-4, and TRA-1-81—as well as multidrug resistance transporter ABCG2. PCR assay revealed that undifferentiated SC5-FF cells, like the original SC5 line, maintained on feeder cells express OCT4 and NANOG genes common for somatic cells and DPPA3/STELLA and DAZL genes common for germ line cells. Expression of these genes was gradually diminished during differentiation of embryoid bodies, whereas expression of genes specific for early differentiated cells increased: GATA4, AFP (extraembryonic and embryonic endoderm), PAX6 (neuroectoderm), and BRY (mesoderm). ESC properties (karyotype structure, average time of population doubling, undifferentiated cell number in population) of the SC5 and SC7 and SC5-FF and SC7-FF sublines derived from original ESCs were not altered. It shows that the feeder-free systems, which are more stable than any feeder systems, maintain key ESC properties and may be recommended for fundamental, biomedical, and pharmacological studies performed with human ESCs.

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    A. M. Koltsova, I. V. Voronkina, V. V. Zenin, A. S. Musorina, L. V. Smagina, T. K. Jakovleva & G. G. Poljanskaya

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Koltsova, A.M., Voronkina, I.V., Gordeeva, O.F. et al. A novel feeder-free system for human embryonic stem cells and characterization of their sublines with autogenic and allogenic cultivation. Cell Tiss. Biol. 7, 1–14 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990519X13010094

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