El jueves 8 de febrero de 2018 se realizó en la Fundación Ramón Areces un Ciclo de Conferencias sobre células madre y organoides, en colaboración con Springer Nature.
Meritxell Huch - Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Universidad de Cambridge, Cambridge, Reino Unido.
1. Meritxell Huch, Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Beit Prize Fellow
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Fundacion Ramon Areces/Springer Nature. Madrid 2018
Adult liver and pancreas organoids:
present and future of their biomedical
utility
2. Huch and Koo, Development, 2015
Generation of functional tissue ex-vivo:
Pluripotent Stem Cell
ESC, iPSC
3. Generation of functional tissue ex-vivo:
Adult tissue cells/ stem / progenitors
Barker & Huch et al.,
Cell Stem Cell 2010
Karthous et al., Cell 2014
Lee et al., Cell 2014
Hisha et al., Sci Rep 2013
Huch et al., Cell 2015
Sato et al., Nature 2009
Huch et al., Nature 2013
Huch et al., EMBOJ 2013
Boj et al. Cell 2015
Dontu et al., G&D 2003
4. 70-85% of the liver's mass
Functions Detoxification, Digestion (bile
production), Storage (glycogen, aa…), Blood
glucose regulation…
Hepatocytes
Cholangiocytes Drain Bile
Liver anatomy
Endothelial
Mesenchymal
Resident Macrophages
Cholangiocyte
Hepatocyte
5. Mouse liver cells generate self-sustaining liver organoids in vitro
HGF/FGF/Wnt/nic
Huch et al.., Nature 2013
9. Human liver organoid cultures differentiate into
functional hepatocyte-like cells in vitro
EM DMDM
B LDL-uptaken storage
10. Can we model human liver diseases using
organoid culture technology?
√ A1AT Deficiency (rare monogenic disease)
√ Liver cancer (2nd most common worldwide)
11. Can we model Primary Liver Cancer using
patient-derived organoids?
Main subtypes of Primary Liver Cancer (PLC)
Hepatocellularcarcinoma
(HCC)
Cholangiocarcinoma
(CC)
Mixed subtype
(CHC)
Tumour organoids that retain the patient and subtype specific features?
?
12. Organoid
H&EBrightfield
Tissue
50 um 50 um50 um 50 um
100 um 100 um100 um 100 um
50 um 50 um50 um 50 um
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Type II: HCC/CCHealthy Type I: m/w HCC Type III: CC
Human Liver Tumouroids EXPAND long term in vitro while
retaining the histological architecture of the tumour sub-type
Broutier et al., Nature Medicine 2017
23. Why focus on the pancreas?
The pancreas is an exocrine and endocrine tissue.
Complications lead to debilitating diseases including Diabetes and Pancreatic cancer.
Endocrine cells secrete hormones (e.g.
insulin) that control blood sugar levels.
Exocrine cells produce enzymes
used to breakdown food.
24. Pancreas ducts grow into
pancreas organoids with ductal phenotype
Huch & Bonfanti & Boj et al., EMBO J 2013
DUCTAL
26. HUMAN Pancreas organoids derived from human
pancreas biopsies expand long term in culture
Passage 13 (130 days in culture)
Prior et al., Unpublished
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Old
medium
V1
medium
V2
medium
27. Summary
Long term expanded in vitro
Model
Primary Liver Cancer
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE?Healthy/
Tumor
biopsy
28. Collaborators
Acknowledgements
• Mikel McKie
• Luigi Aloia
• Gianmarco Mastrogiovani
• Olga Sidorova
• E Cuppen and R. Van Boxtel (Hubrecht)
• Kourosh Saeb Parsy, Nikitas G (Addenbrokes
hospital, Cambridge)
• Dr Susan Davies (Pathologist, Addenbrokes)
• L. vd Laan, Monique Verstegen (Erasmus MC)
• Steve Wigmore (Edinburgh)
Huch lab
• Laura Broutier • Lucia Cordero
• Robert Arnes
• Nicole Prior
Funding
29. Pancreas Morphogenetic assay:
Embryonic pancreas fully maturates into
adult pancreas lineages
Ductal cell INS + cell Acinar cell
Paola Bonfanti / Harry Heimberg
31. Ductal cells undergo a partial de-differentiation in their transition to a
proliferative/progenitor state
DUCTAL MARKERS
STEM CELL MARKERS
PROLIFERATION MARKERS
32. Etiology:
-acute or chronic liver damage
-massive hepatic necrosis
-hepatic fibrosis
-hepatic cirrhosis
Human liver disease is marked by a prominent ductular reaction
Krt19
As a final 3rd part of my I want to share with you the projects that are ongoing in the lab where we use this organoid technology to model human disease:
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Hepatology. 2013 Apr;57(4):1469-83. doi: 10.1002/hep.26159. Epub 2013 Mar 6.
Sal-like protein 4 (SALL4), a stem cell biomarker in liver cancers.
Oikawa T1, Kamiya A, Zeniya M, Chikada H, Hyuck AD, Yamazaki Y, Wauthier E, Tajiri H, Miller LD, Wang XW, Reid LM, Nakauchi H.
Liver cancers, including hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), cholangiocarcinomas (CCs), and fibrolamellar HCCs (FL-HCCs) are among the most common cancers worldwide and are associated with a poor prognosis. Investigations of genes important in liver cancers have focused on Sal-like protein 4 (SALL4), a member of a family of zinc finger transcription factors. It is a regulator of embryogenesis, organogenesis, pluripotency, can elicit reprogramming of somatic cells, and is a marker of stem cells. We found it expressed in normal murine hepatoblasts, normal human hepatic stem cells, hepatoblasts and biliary tree stem cells, but not in mature parenchymal cells of liver or biliary tree. It was strongly expressed in surgical specimens of human HCCs, CCs, a combined hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma, a FL-HCC, and in derivative, transplantable tumor lines in immune-compromised hosts. Bioinformatics analyses indicated that elevated expression of SALL4 in tumors is associated with poor survival of HCC patients. Experimental manipulation of SALL4′s expression results in changes in proliferation versus differentiation in human HCC cell lines in vitro and in vivo in immune-compromised hosts. Virus-mediated gene transfer of SALL4 was used for gain- and loss-of-function analyses in the cell lines. Significant growth inhibition in vitro and in vivo, accompanied by an increase in differentiation occurred with down-regulation of SALL4. Overexpression of SALL4 resulted in increased cell proliferation in vitro, correlating with an increase in expression of cytokeratin19 (CK19), epithelial cell adhesion molecules (EpCAM), and adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette-G2 (ABCG2). Conclusion: SALL4′s expression is an indicator of stem cells, a prognostic marker in liver cancers, correlates with cell and tumor growth, with resistance to 5-FU, and its suppression results in differentiation and slowed tumor growth. SALL4 is a novel therapeutic target for liver cancers. (HEPATOLOGY 2013)
As a final 3rd part of my I want to share with you the projects that are ongoing in the lab where we use this organoid technology to model human disease:
Exogenous insulin can induce hypoglycaemic crises and does not prevent the onset of acute and chronic complications of T1D. These complications impair the health and life expectancy of patients with T1D. Only advanced therapies, which restore a functional mass of β-cells will fundamentally change the way T1D is treated and will come close to the long-sought cure of T1D. The advanced therapy with hPOs has the potential to cure T1D and relieve patients from insulin injections.
Pancreas islets transplantation restores a therapeutic pool of functional β-cells. The transplanted islets take over the precise
physiological control of blood glucose levels in a manner that is not achievable with insulin injections. Thus, T1D
patients transplanted with pancreas islets are relieved from injecting insulin. This fine-tuned glucose control allows
T1D patients to develop a healthier life. In addition to improving their quality of life, the long-term complications of
T1D are also expected to be diminished, thus significantly reducing morbidity and mortality. Pancreas islet transplantations have shown 1) that cellular therapy of T1D is feasible and 2) that cellular therapy of T1D is beneficial for the patient and the healthcare system.
However, the transplantation of human islets suffers from the lack of suitable donors, surgical complications and the
rejection of transplanted islets, which in turn requires continuous immunosuppression. Since it is currently not
possible to culture and expand pancreas islets in vitro, only fresh islets are used for transplantation.
Stem cells are an alternative source of functional islets. Several sources are available at present, from hESC/iPSC to
adult endogenous pancreas cells.
The use of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) presents serious ethical and regulatory issues.
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be utilized. iPSCs do not raise the ethical concerns of hESCs,
since they are reprogrammed from adult cells. However, iPSCs raise safety concerns, since iPSCs
reprogramming induces genetic and epigenetic changes to the cells. Thus, iPSC-derived β-cells potentially
lead to tumour (teratoma) formation once transplanted in the patient.
Adult endogenous stem cells (progenitor cells), from which the pancreas organoids are generated, do not
pose ethical dilemmas, as they are harvested from adult tissues. Endogenous stem cells are also safer
Now if we isolate this ductal structures, normal cells and put them in culture we can
generate similar organoids that are mainly single leyers epithelium of ductal like cells. And similarly to the liver, we can expand these in culture for many months splitiung 1:5-dilution.
We generated organoids from single Lgr5 cells expandem in vitro and transplanted into the mouse, and then we aske dthe question whether if our organoid cells can differentiate into proper hepatocytes in vivo, we should be able to detect FAH + cells in the FAH neg background of the host.
3 months after transplantation we detected positive FAH clones in the liver parenquima of the FAH KO mouse, indicating that single lgr5 cells expanded in vitro can generate functional hepatocytes also in vivo after transplantation.
To answer the question wether these were or not functional hepatocytes we lloked at the survial of themice and we saw that indeed, When we compare the survival of the mice that received cells and we could detec grafts (brown line) with the mice that received cells but we could not detect graft, blue line we observe a significant increase in the survivial of the mice.
indicates, this cells can make functional hepatocytes in vivo upon transplantation,
As a final 3rd part of my I want to share with you the projects that are ongoing in the lab where we use this organoid technology to model human disease: