Cabral TM et al. (JUL 2012)
Journal of Virological Methods 183 1 25--33
Development and characterization of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against the pandemic H1N1 virus (2009).
The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic was a major international public health crisis which caused considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. The goal of this study was to produce anti-H1 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) for improving diagnostic immunological assays and to develop potential immunotherapeutics. Nine MAbs were produced after immunizing mice with recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) protein from A/California/06/09. Two spleenocyte myeloma fusions yielded 1588 hybridoma cultures. After screening the hybridoma culture supernatants for antibody reactivity to rHA,nine clones were selected for further characterization. Cross-reactivity studies of the anti-rHA antibodies against a panel of influenza viruses (H1-H16) revealed eight out of nine MAbs were specific to the pandemic H1 subtype,except for MAb F256G2sc1 which also cross-reacted with H5 subtype virus. All MAbs were of the IgG1κ isotype,except F256G2sc1 which was IgG2aκ. The anti-rHA MAbs had binding affinities to rHA that ranged from a K(D) (disassociation constant) of 1.34×10(-9)M (F255G7sc1) to the weakest affinity of 4.60×10(-8)M (F255G4sc1). Interestingly,in a plaque reduction neutralization assay,all MAbs except F255G3sc1 demonstrated neutralizing ability. Furthermore,all MAbs except F255G3sc1 and F255G9sc1 exhibited anti-hemagglutinin activity against pandemic H1N1 viruses,but not against classical North American swine influenza viruses of the same subtype. Immunofluorescence assay (IFA) demonstrated that all MAbs except F255G1sc1 and F255G3sc1 were able to detect 2009 pandemic H1N1 (2009) virus- infected MDCK cells. The MAbs were also evaluated for potential use in competitive ELISA (cELISA),and with the exception of F255G3sc1,all MAbs showed competitive activity with serum collected from pigs infected with pandemic H1N1 virus (2009). The developed MAbs have demonstrated utility as immunodiagnostic and research reagents,and their neutralizing capabilities also hold potential for designing antiviral drugs against pandemic influenza.
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ClonaCell™-HY杂交瘤试剂盒
ClonaCell™-HY培养基A
ClonaCell™-HY 培养基 B
ClonaCell™-HY 培养基 C
ClonaCell™-HY 培养基 D
ClonaCell™-HY 培养基 E
ClonaCell™-HY PEG
Jaremko KL and Marikawa Y (MAY 2013)
Stem cell research 10 3 489--502
Regulation of developmental competence and commitment towards the definitive endoderm lineage in human embryonic stem cells.
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can self-renew and become all three germ layers. Nodal/Activin signaling specifies developmental status in hESCs: moderate Nodal/Activin signaling maintains pluripotency,while enhancement and inhibition promote definitive endoderm (DE) and neuroectoderm (NE) development,respectively. However,how modulation of Nodal/Activin signaling influences developmental competence and commitment toward specific lineages is still unclear. Here,we showed that enhancement of Nodal/Activin signaling for 4 days was necessary and sufficient to upregulate DE markers,while it diminished the upregulation of NE markers by inhibition of Nodal/Activin signaling. This suggests that after 4 days of enhanced Nodal/Activin signaling,hESCs are committed to the DE lineage and have lost competence toward the NE lineage. In contrast,inhibition of Nodal/Activin signaling using LY364947 for 2 days was sufficient to impair competence toward the DE lineage,although cells were still able to activate LEFTY1 and NODAL,direct targets of Nodal/Activin signaling. Expression analyses indicated that the levels of pluripotency regulators NANOG and POU5F1 were significantly diminished by 2 days of LY364947 treatment,although the expression of NANOG,but not POU5F1,was restored immediately upon Activin A treatment. Thus,downregulation of POU5F1 coincided with the abrogation of DE competence caused by inhibition of Nodal/Activin signaling.
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LY364947
mTeSR™1
mTeSR™1
Dalley AJ et al. (JAN 2013)
Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology 42 1 37--46
Organotypic culture of normal, dysplastic and squamous cell carcinoma-derived oral cell lines reveals loss of spatial regulation of CD44 and p75 NTR in malignancy.
Oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) often arise from dysplastic lesions. The role of cancer stem cells in tumour initiation is widely accepted,yet the potential existence of pre-cancerous stem cells in dysplastic tissue has received little attention. Cell lines from oral diseases ranging in severity from dysplasia to malignancy provide opportunity to investigate the involvement of stem cells in malignant progression from dysplasia. Stem cells are functionally defined by their ability to generate hierarchical tissue structures in consortium with spatial regulation. Organotypic cultures readily display tissue hierarchy in vitro; hence,in this study,we compared hierarchical expression of stem cell-associated markers in dermis-based organotypic cultures of oral epithelial cells from normal tissue (OKF6-TERT2),mild dysplasia (DOK),severe dysplasia (POE-9n) and OSCC (PE/CA P J15). Expression of CD44,p75(NTR),CD24 and ALDH was studied in monolayers by flow cytometry and in organotypic cultures by immunohistochemistry. Spatial regulation of CD44 and p75(NTR) was evident for organotypic cultures of normal (OKF6-TERT2) and dysplasia (DOK and POE-9n) but was lacking for OSCC (PE/CA PJ15)-derived cells. Spatial regulation of CD24 was not evident. All monolayer cultures exhibited CD44,p75(NTR),CD24 antigens and ALDH activity (ALDEFLUOR(®) assay),with a trend towards loss of population heterogeneity that mirrored disease severity. In monolayer,increased FOXA1 and decreased FOXA2 expression correlated with disease severity,but OCT3/4,Sox2 and NANOG did not. We conclude that dermis-based organotypic cultures give opportunity to investigate the mechanisms that underlie loss of spatial regulation of stem cell markers seen with OSCC-derived cells.
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ALDEFLUOR™ 试剂盒
ALDEFLUOR™ DEAB试剂, 1.5 mM, 1 mL
ALDEFLUOR™检测缓冲液
Stratford AL et al. (JUL 2012)
Stem cells (Dayton,Ohio) 30 7 1338--48
Targeting p90 ribosomal S6 kinase eliminates tumor-initiating cells by inactivating Y-box binding protein-1 in triple-negative breast cancers.
Y-box binding protein-1 (YB-1) is the first reported oncogenic transcription factor to induce the tumor-initiating cell (TIC) surface marker CD44 in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells. In order for CD44 to be induced,YB-1 must be phosphorylated at S102 by p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (RSK). We therefore questioned whether RSK might be a tractable molecular target to eliminate TICs. In support of this idea,injection of MDA-MB-231 cells expressing Flag-YB-1 into mice increased tumor growth as well as enhanced CD44 expression. Despite enrichment for TICs,these cells were sensitive to RSK inhibition when treated ex vivo with BI-D1870. Targeting RSK2 with small interfering RNA (siRNA) or small molecule RSK kinase inhibitors (SL0101 and BI-D1870) blocked TNBC monolayer cell growth by ∼100%. In a diverse panel of breast tumor cell line models RSK2 siRNA predominantly targeted models of TNBC. RSK2 inhibition decreased CD44 promoter activity,CD44 mRNA,protein expression,and mammosphere formation. CD44(+) cells had higher P-RSK(S221/227),P-YB-1(S102),and mitotic activity relative to CD44(-) cells. Importantly,RSK2 inhibition specifically suppressed the growth of TICs and triggered cell death. Moreover,silencing RSK2 delayed tumor initiation in mice. In patients,RSK2 mRNA was associated with poor disease-free survival in a cohort of 244 women with breast cancer that had not received adjuvant treatment,and its expression was highest in the basal-like breast cancer subtype. Taking this further,we report that P-RSK(S221/227) is present in primary TNBCs and correlates with P-YB-1(S102) as well as CD44. In conclusion,RSK2 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic avenue for TNBC and holds the promise of eliminating TICs.
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72712
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MammoCult™ 人源培养基套装
BI-D1870
Wang J et al. (SEP 2012)
International journal of oncology 41 3 1101--9
Sirtinol, a class III HDAC inhibitor, induces apoptotic and autophagic cell death in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.
Sirtuins (SIRTs),NAD+-dependent class III histone deacetylases (HDACs),play an important role in the regulation of cell division,survival and senescence. Although a number of effective SIRT inhibitors have been developed,little is known about the specific mechanisms of their anticancer activity. In this study,we investigated the anticancer effects of sirtinol,a SIRT inhibitor,on MCF-7 human breast cancer cells. Apoptotic and autophagic cell death were measured. Sirtinol significantly inhibited the proliferation of MCF-7 cells in a concentration-dependent manner. The IC50 values of sirtinol were 48.6 µM (24 h) and 43.5 µM (48 h) in MCF-7 cells. As expected,sirtinol significantly increased the acetylation of p53,which has been reported to be a target of SIRT1/2. Flow cyto-metry analysis revealed that sirtinol significantly increased the G1 phase of the cell cycle. The upregulation of Bax,downregulation of Bcl-2 and cytochrome c release into the cytoplasm,which are considered as mechanisms of apoptotic cell death,were observed in the MCF-7 cells treated with sirtinol. The annexin V-FITC assay was used to confirm sirtinol-induced apoptotic cell death. Furthermore,the expression of LC3-II,an autophagy-related molecule,was significantly increased in MCF-7 cells after sirtinol treatment. Autophagic cell death was confirmed by acridine orange and monodansylcadaverine (MDC) staining. Of note,pre-treatment with 3-methyladenine (3-MA) increased the sirtinol-induced MCF-7 cell cytotoxicity,which is associated with blocking autophagic cell death and increasing apoptotic cell death. Based on our results,the downregulation of SIRT1/2 expression may play an important role in the regulation of breast cancer cell death; thus,SIRT1/2 may be a novel molecular target for cancer therapy and these findings may provide a molecular basis for targeting SIRT1/2 in future cancer therapy.
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73822
73824
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西尔替诺(Sirtinol)
Peng Y et al. (NOV 2012)
Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 6 10 e74----86
Human fibroblast matrices bio-assembled under macromolecular crowding support stable propagation of human embryonic stem cells.
Stable pluripotent feeder-free propagation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) prior to their therapeutic applications remains a major challenge. Matrigel™ (BD Singapore) is a murine sarcoma-derived extracellular matrix (ECM) widely used as a cell-free support combined with conditioned or chemically defined media; however,inherent xenogenic and immunological threats invalidate it for clinical applications. Using human fibrogenic cells to generate ECM is promising but currently suffers from inefficient and time-consuming deposition in vitro. We recently showed that macromolecular crowding (MMC) accelerated ECM deposition substantially in vitro. In the current study,we used dextran sulfate 500 kDa as a macromolecular crowder to induce WI-38 fetal human lung fibroblasts at 0.5% serum condition to deposit human ECM in three days. After decellularization,the generated ECMs allowed stable propagation of H9 hESCs over 20 passages in chemically-defined medium (mTEsR1) with an overall improved outcome compared to Matrigel in terms of population doubling while retaining teratoma formation and differentiation capacity. Of significance,only ECMs generated by MMC allowed the successful propagation of hESCs. ECMs were highly complex and in contrast to Matrigel,contained no vitronectin but did contain collagen XII,ig-h3 and novel for hESC-supporting human matrices,substantial amounts of transglutaminase 2. Genome-wide analysis of promoter DNA methylation states revealed high overall similarity between human ECM- and Matrigel-cultured hESCs; however,distinct differences were observed with 49 genes associated with a variety of cellular functions. Thus,human ECMs deposited by MMC by selected fibroblast lines are a suitable human microenvironment for stable hESC propagation and clinically translational settings.
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Dispase (1 U/mL)
mTeSR™1
mTeSR™1
Zhang CC et al. (SEP 2012)
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 18 18 5008--5019
Biomarker and pharmacologic evaluation of the $$-secretase inhibitor PF-03084014 in breast cancer models.
PURPOSE We aimed to assess the biologic activity of PF-03084014 in breast xenograft models. The biomarkers for mechanism and patient stratification were also explored. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The in vitro and in vivo properties of PF-03084014 were investigated. The mRNA expressions of 40 key Notch pathway genes at baseline or after treatment were analyzed to link with the antitumor efficacy of PF-03084014 in a panel of breast cancer xenograft models. RESULTS In vitro,PF-03084014 exhibited activity against tumor cell migration,endothelial cell tube formation,and mammosphere formation. In vivo,we observed apoptosis,antiproliferation,reduced tumor cell self-renewal ability,impaired tumor vasculature,and decreased metastasis activity after the treatment of PF-03084014. PF-03084014 treatment displayed significant antitumor activity in 10 of the 18 breast xenograft models. However,the antitumor efficacy in most models did not correlate with the in vitro antiproliferation results in the corresponding cell lines,suggesting the critical involvement of tumor microenvironment during Notch activation. In the tested breast xenograft models,the baseline expressions of the Notch receptors,ligands,and the cleaved Notch1 failed to predict the antitumor response to PF-03084014,whereas several Notch pathway target genes,including HEY2,HES4,and HES3,strongly corresponded with the response with a P value less than 0.01. Many of the best molecular predictors of response were also significantly modulated following PF-03084014 treatment. CONCLUSIONS PF-03084014 showed antitumor and antimetastatic properties via pleiotropic mechanisms. The Notch pathway downstream genes may be used to predict the antitumor activity of PF-03084014 and enrich for responders among breast cancer patients.
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05620
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MammoCult™ 人源培养基套装
Behar RZ et al. (NOV 2012)
Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods 66 3 238--245
A method for rapid dose-response screening of environmental chemicals using human embryonic stem cells
Introduction: Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) provide an invaluable model for assessing the effects of environmental chemicals and drugs on human prenatal development. However,hESC are difficult to adapt to 96-well plate screening assays,because they survive best when plated as colonies,which are difficult to count and plate accurately. The purpose of this study is to present an experimental method and analysis procedure to accomplish reliable screening of toxicants using hESC. Methods: We present a method developed to rapidly and easily determine the number of cells in small colonies of hESC spectrophotometerically and then accurately dispense equivalent numbers of cells in 96-well plates. The MTT assay was used to evaluate plating accuracy,and the method was tested using known toxicants. Results: The quality of the plate set-up and analysis procedure was evaluated with NIH plate validation and assessment software. All statistical parameters measured by the software were acceptable,and no drift or edge effects were observed. The 96-well plate MTT assay with hESC was tested by performing a dose-response screen of commercial products,which contain a variety of chemicals. The screen was done using single wells/dose,and the reliability of this method was demonstrated in a subsequent screen of the same products repeated three times. The single and triple screens were in good agreement,and NOAELs and IC50s could be determined from the single screen. The effects of vapor from volatile chemicals were studied,and methods to monitor and avoid vapor effects were incorporated into the assay. Discussion: Our method overcomes the difficulty of using hESC for reliable quantitative 96-well plate assays. It enables rapid dose-response screening using equipment that is commonly available in laboratories that culture hESC. This method could have a broad application in studies of environmental chemicals and drugs using hESC as models of prenatal development. ?? 2012 Elsevier Inc.
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mTeSR™1
mTeSR™1
Raouf A and Sun YJ ( 2013)
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton,N.J.) 946 363--381
In vitro methods to culture primary human breast epithelial cells.
Current evidence suggests that much like leukemia,breast tumors are maintained by a small subpopulation of tumor cells that have stem cell properties. These cancer stem cells are envisaged to be responsible for tumor formation and relapse. Therefore,knowledge about their nature will provide a platform to develop therapies to eliminate these breast cancer stem cells. This concept highlights the need to understand the mechanisms that regulate the normal functions of the breast stem cells and their immediate progeny as alterations to these same mechanisms can cause these primitive cells to act as cancer stem cells. The study of the primitive cell functions relies on the ability to isolate them from primary sources of breast tissue. This chapter describes processing of discarded tissue from reduction mammoplasty samples as sources of normal primary human breast epithelial cells and describes cell culture systems to grow single-cell suspensions prepared from these reduction samples in vitro.
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05620
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MammoCult™ 人源培养基套装
Pond AC et al. ( 2013)
Stem cells (Dayton,Ohio) 31 1 10.1002/stem.1266
Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Is Essential for Normal Mammary Gland Development and Stem Cell Function
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling plays an important role in embryonic stem cells and adult tissue homeostasis,but the function of FGFs in mammary gland stem cells is less well defined. Both FGFR1 and FGFR2 are expressed in basal and luminal mammary epithelial cells (MECs),suggesting that together they might play a role in mammary gland development and stem cell dynamics. Previous studies have demonstrated that the deletion of FGFR2 resulted only in transient developmental defects in branching morphogenesis. Using a conditional deletion strategy,we investigated the consequences of FGFR1 deletion alone and then the simultaneous deletion of both FGFR1 and FGFR2 in the mammary epithelium. FGFR1 deletion using a keratin 14 promoter-driven Cre-recombinase resulted in an early,yet transient delay in development. However,no reduction in functional outgrowth potential was observed following limiting dilution transplantation analysis. In contrast,a significant reduction in outgrowth potential was observed upon the deletion of both FGFR1 and FGFR2 in MECs using adenovirus-Cre. Additionally,using a fluorescent reporter mouse model to monitor Cre-mediated recombination,we observed a competitive disadvantage following transplantation of both FGFR1/R2-null MECs,most prominently in the basal epithelial cells. This correlated with the complete loss of the mammary stem cell repopulating population in the FGFR1/R2-attenuated epithelium. FGFR1/R2-null MECs were partially rescued in chimeric outgrowths containing wild-type MECs,suggesting the potential importance of paracrine mechanisms involved in the maintenance of the basal epithelial stem cells. These studies document the requirement for functional FGFR signaling in mammary stem cells during development.
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抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,APC
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Biotin
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Biotin
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PE
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PE
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PerCP-Cy5.5
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PerCP-Cy5.5
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,APC
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Biotin
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,FITC
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,PE
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,PE
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Pacific Blue™
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Pacific Blue™
Pino CJ et al. (FEB 2013)
Nephrology,dialysis,transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 28 2 296--302
Cell-based approaches for the treatment of systemic inflammation.
Acute and chronic solid organ failures are costly disease processes with high mortality rates. Inflammation plays a central role in both acute and chronic organ failure,including heart,lung and kidney. In this regard,new therapies for these disorders have focused on inhibiting the mediators of inflammation,including cytokines and free radicals,with little or no success in clinical studies. Recent novel treatment strategies have been directed to cell-based rather than mediator-based approaches,designed to immunomodulate the deleterious effects of inflammation on organ function. One approach,cell therapy,replaces cells that were damaged in the acute or chronic disease process with stem/progenitor technology,to rebalance excessive inflammatory states. As an example of this approach,the use of an immunomodulatory role of renal epithelial progenitor cells to treat acute renal failure (ARF) and multiorgan failure arising from acute kidney injury is reviewed. A second therapeutic pathway,cell processing,does not incorporate stem/progenitor cells in the device,but rather biomimetic materials that remove and modulate the primary cellular components,which promote the worsening organ tissue injury associated with inflammation. The use of an immunomodulating leukocyte selective cytopheretic inhibitory device is also reviewed as an example of this cell processing approach. Both of these unconventional strategies have shown early clinical efficacy in pilot clinical trials and may transform the therapeutic approach to organ failure disorders.
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100-1061
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CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
Behar RZ et al. (NOV 2012)
Current protocols in stem cell biology 1 SUPPL.23 Unit 1C.13
Adaptation of stem cells to 96-well plate assays: use of human embryonic and mouse neural stem cells in the MTT assay.
Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) are difficult to adapt to 96-well plate assays,such as the MTT assay,because they survive best when plated as colonies,which are not easily counted and plated accurately. Two methods were developed to address this problem. In the first,ROCK inhibitor (ROCKi) was used,which allows accurate counting and plating of single hESC. In the second,small colonies were plated without ROCKi but with adaptations for accurate counting and plating. The MTT assay was also adapted for use with mouse neural stem cells. These methods allow the MTT assay to be conducted rapidly and accurately with high reproducibility between replicate experiments. When screening volatile chemicals in a 96-well plate,vapor effects may occur and dose ranges must be carefully defined. The methods were validated using the NIH assay guidance tool. These methodss could readily be translated to other 96-well plate assay.
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