TY - JOUR
T1 - Overexpression of FOXQ1 enhances anti-senescence and migration effects of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells in vitro and in vivo
AU - Zhang, Tao
AU - Wang, Pan
AU - Liu, Yanxia
AU - Zhou, Jiankang
AU - Shi, Zhenqing
AU - Cheng, Kang
AU - Huang, Tuanjie
AU - Wang, Xinxin
AU - Yang, Greta Luyuan
AU - Yang, Bo
AU - Ma, Shanshan
AU - Guan, Fangxia
N1 - Funding Information:
All plasmids (Framework plasmid pHBLV-puro and packaging plasmids psPAX2, pMD2.G) were gifts from the Peking University Research Center on Aging, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Professor Tanjun Tong. This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 81471306 and 81501200), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M572122), Innovative Research Team in Science and Technology of the University of Henan Province (15IRTSTHN022), the Plan for Scientific Innovation Talent of Henan Province (154200510008), the Key Research Project of Higher Education of Henan Province (17A310012) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20114101110004). T.Z. and P.W. equally contributed to this work. FX.G. and SS.M. jointly supervised this work. FX.G. is the first corresponding author. Author Disclosure Statement. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 81471306 and 81501200), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M572122), Innovative Research Team in Science and Technology of the University of Henan Province (15IRTSTHN022), the Plan for Scientific Innovation Talent of Henan Province (154200510008), the Key Research Project of Higher Education of Henan Province (17A310012) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20114101110004).
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PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are unique precursor cells characterized by active self-renewal and differentiation potential. These cells offer the advantages of ease of isolation and limited ethical issues as a resource and represent a promising cell therapy for neurodegenerative diseases. However, replicative senescence during cell culture as well as low efficiency of cell migration and differentiation after transplantation are major obstacles. In our previous study, we found that FOXQ1 binds directly to the SIRT1 promoter to regulate cellular senescence and also promotes cell proliferation and migration in many tumor cell lines. Currently, little is known about the effects of FOXQ1 on normal somatic cells. Therefore, we examine the effects of FOXQ1 on senescence and migration of MSCs. Lentiviral vector-mediated overexpression of FOXQ1 in human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) resulted in enhanced cell proliferation and viability. Furthermore, the expression of proteins and markers positively associated with senescence (p16, p21, p53) was reduced, whereas expression of proteins negatively associated with senescence (SIRT1, PCNA) was promoted. Following transplantation of hUC-MSCs overexpressing FOXQ1 in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease (APPV717I transgenic mice) resulted in amelioration of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on cognitive function and pathological senescence accompanied the increased numbers of hUC-MSCs in the AD brain. In conclusion, FOXQ1 overexpression promotes anti-senescence and migration of hUC-MSCs in vitro and in vivo. These findings also suggest that this strategy may contribute to optimization of the efficiency of stem cell therapy.
AB - Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are unique precursor cells characterized by active self-renewal and differentiation potential. These cells offer the advantages of ease of isolation and limited ethical issues as a resource and represent a promising cell therapy for neurodegenerative diseases. However, replicative senescence during cell culture as well as low efficiency of cell migration and differentiation after transplantation are major obstacles. In our previous study, we found that FOXQ1 binds directly to the SIRT1 promoter to regulate cellular senescence and also promotes cell proliferation and migration in many tumor cell lines. Currently, little is known about the effects of FOXQ1 on normal somatic cells. Therefore, we examine the effects of FOXQ1 on senescence and migration of MSCs. Lentiviral vector-mediated overexpression of FOXQ1 in human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) resulted in enhanced cell proliferation and viability. Furthermore, the expression of proteins and markers positively associated with senescence (p16, p21, p53) was reduced, whereas expression of proteins negatively associated with senescence (SIRT1, PCNA) was promoted. Following transplantation of hUC-MSCs overexpressing FOXQ1 in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease (APPV717I transgenic mice) resulted in amelioration of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on cognitive function and pathological senescence accompanied the increased numbers of hUC-MSCs in the AD brain. In conclusion, FOXQ1 overexpression promotes anti-senescence and migration of hUC-MSCs in vitro and in vivo. These findings also suggest that this strategy may contribute to optimization of the efficiency of stem cell therapy.
KW - Anti-senescence
KW - FOXQ1
KW - Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells
KW - Migration
KW - Overexpression
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U2 - 10.1007/s00441-018-2815-0
DO - 10.1007/s00441-018-2815-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 29500491
AN - SCOPUS:85045027567
VL - 373
SP - 379
EP - 393
JO - Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und mikroskopische Anatomie (Vienna, Austria : 1948)
JF - Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und mikroskopische Anatomie (Vienna, Austria : 1948)
SN - 0302-766X
IS - 2
ER -
