Lavon Neta, Narwani Kavita, Golan-Lev Tamar, Buehler Nicole, Hill David, Benvenisty Nissim
The International Stem Cell Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Stem Cells. 2008 Jul;26(7):1874-82. doi: 10.1634/stemcells.2008-0156. Epub 2008 May 1.
Human embryonic stem cells (HESCs) are pluripotent cells derived from the inner cell mass of preimplantation embryos. In this study, to isolate new lines of HESCs, we used blastocyst-stage embryos diagnosed as aneuploid in preimplantation genetic screening (PGS). During in vitro fertilization treatments, PGS is widely applied to identify chromosomal aneuploidies, especially in cases of advanced maternal age. Embryos that are detected as carrying aneuploidies are destined to be discarded unless donated for research. From 74 fresh PGS-defined aneuploid embryos, we derived seven HESC lines. Most of the embryos were left to hatch spontaneously through the hole created for blastomere biopsy and further treated by immunosurgery. The seven HESC lines exhibited morphology and markers typical of HESCs and the capacity for long-term proliferation. The derived HESC lines manifested pluripotent differentiation potential both in vivo and in vitro. Surprisingly, karyotype analysis of the HESC lines that were derived from these aneuploid embryos showed that the cell lines carry a normal euploid karyotype. We show that the euploidy was not achieved through chromosome duplication. Alternatively, we suggest that the euploid HESC lines originated from mosaic embryos consisting of aneuploid and euploid cells, and in vitro selection occurred to favor euploid cells. We assume that aneuploid HESC lines could be isolated mostly from embryos that are uniform for the aneuploidy. These results led us to conclude that the aneuploid mosaic embryos that are destined to be discarded can serve as an alternative source for normal euploid HESC lines.
人类胚胎干细胞(HESCs)是源自植入前胚胎内细胞团的多能细胞。在本研究中,为了分离新的HESC系,我们使用了在植入前基因筛查(PGS)中被诊断为非整倍体的囊胚期胚胎。在体外受精治疗期间,PGS被广泛应用于识别染色体非整倍体,尤其是在高龄产妇的情况下。被检测出携带非整倍体的胚胎,除非捐赠用于研究,否则注定会被丢弃。从74个新鲜的经PGS定义的非整倍体胚胎中,我们获得了7个HESC系。大多数胚胎通过为卵裂球活检创建的孔自发孵化,并进一步通过免疫手术进行处理。这7个HESC系表现出HESCs典型的形态和标志物以及长期增殖能力。所获得的HESC系在体内和体外均表现出多能分化潜能。令人惊讶的是,对源自这些非整倍体胚胎的HESC系进行核型分析表明,这些细胞系具有正常的整倍体核型。我们表明,整倍体并非通过染色体复制实现。或者,我们认为整倍体HESC系起源于由非整倍体细胞和整倍体细胞组成的嵌合胚胎,并且在体外选择有利于整倍体细胞。我们假设非整倍体HESC系大多可以从非整倍体一致的胚胎中分离出来。这些结果使我们得出结论,注定要被丢弃的非整倍体嵌合胚胎可以作为正常整倍体HESC系的替代来源。