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Methods for growth and maturation of ovarian follicles

a technology of ovarian follicles and growth methods, which is applied in the direction of viruses/bacteriophages, drug compositions, and genetically modified cells, can solve the problems of difficult isolation and characterization of these cells from differentiating escs, and achieve the effect of promoting the growth and maturation of mammalian oocytes

Active Publication Date: 2018-10-11
NORTHEASTERN UNIV
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The patent describes a method for promoting the growth and maturation of oocytes in a subject by culturing mammalian multi-potent cells and then contacting them with mammalian ovarian tissue containing granulosa cells. The multi-potent cells are engineered to contain a granulosa cell-specific reporter, which is used to identify and isolate the granulosa cells. The isolated granulosa cells or granulosa cell precursors are then administered to the subject, where they secrete steroidal hormones that promote the growth and maturation of the oocyte. The method can be used to treat infertility in humans.

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Additionally, increased expression of steroidogenic pathway genes, along with estrogen secretion into the culture medium, occurs concomitant with the formation of follicle-like structures from ESCs in vitro.
While these observations collectively support the notion that somatic cells of in vitro-derived follicle-like structures have features ultra-structurally and functionally similar to endogenous granulosa cells, isolation and characterization of these cells from differentiating ESCs has been difficult.

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Follicle-Like Structure Formation in Differentiating ESC Cultures

[0111]This example shows that differentiation of ESCs leads to the formation of follicle-like structures.

[0112]Materials and Methods

[0113]An undifferentiated mouse XX ESC line with germ cell lineage expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) was generated from TgOG2 (ΔPE-Pou5f1-Gfp) transgenic female mice using standard methods, essentially as described in Hubner et al., Science, 300: 1251-56 (2003).

[0114]Undifferentiated TgOG2 ESCs were maintained on a mitotically-inactivated mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) feeder layer in DMEM supplemented with 15% heat-inactivated ESC-grade fetal bovine serum (FBS; Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.), 1% sodium pyruvate, 1% non-essential amino acids, 1% penicillin-streptomycin (Invitrogen), 103 U / ml leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF; Millipore, Billerica, Mass.) and 0.1 mM β-mercaptoethanol (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Mo.). For differentiation, ESCs were separated from MEFs by differenti...

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Granulosa Cell Specification and Isolation

[0119]This example shows a method for tracking and identifying granulosa cells that differentiate from ESCs.

[0120]Materials and Methods

[0121]To identify and track ovarian somatic cells in differentiating ESC cultures, the expression of the early granulosa cell marker, Foxl2, in differentiating ESC cultures was mapped. The mapping revealed activation of the Foxl2 gene by day 5 (FIG. 2A). A 739 bp region of the Foxl2 gene promoter was identified using Genome Vista. The region was isolated from mouse genomic DNA and cloned into the pDsRed2-1 vector (Clontech, Mountain View, Calif.,) or the pLenti6 lentiviral construct containing the complete open reading frame of DsRed (Gateway Lentiviral System; Invitrogen), thus creating a DsRed expression vector under control of the Foxl2 gene promoter (FIG. 2B)

[0122]Promoter activity and specificity were verified using mouse granulosa cells as a positive control and 293 cells (Invitrogen) as a negative cont...

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Intraovarian Transplantation of Granulosa Cells

[0131]This example shows granulosa cells derived from multi-potent cells migrate to immature oocytes and developing follicles in neo-natal ovaries.

[0132]Materials and Methods

[0133]Wild-type C57BL / 6 female mice (Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, Mass., USA) were used in the following experiments.

[0134]Following differentiation of Foxl2-DsRed-expressing ESCs for 12 days, FACS was used to isolate DsRed-positive cells. For each experiment, 200-500 DsRed-positive cells were microinjected into a single neonatal (day 2-4 postpartum) wild-type mouse ovary using a Pneumatic PicoPump (World Precision Instruments, Sarasota, Fla.) (FIG. 6A-6B). Injected ovaries were then transplanted under kidney capsules of ovariectomized wild-type female mice at 6 weeks of age. At 8 days and 2 weeks post-transplantation, the grafted ovaries were removed and fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) for analysis.

[0135]Fixed ovaries were embedded in paraffin, serial...

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Abstract

The present technology provides for methods for generation and isolation of granulosa cells and / or granulosa cell precursors from multi-potent cells, wherein the granulosa cells and / or granulosa cell precursors are useful in methods for growth and maturation of follicles or follicle-like structures. Additionally, the present technology also provides for methods of increasing steroidal hormones in a subject in need thereof.

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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT[0001]The present technology was made with U.S. Government support under grant R37-AG012279 and F32-AG034809 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The U.S. Government has certain rights in the present technology.BACKGROUND[0002]Follicle-like structures formed by mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in vitro consist of a single oocyte-like cell, which can grow as large as 70 μm in diameter, surrounded by one or more layers of tightly-adherent somatic cells. Analogous to what is observed during normal follicle formation within the ovary, somatic cells within ESC-derived follicle-like structures are connected via intercellular bridges with their enclosed germ cells, which may serve to facilitate cell-to-cell interaction required for normal follicle development.SUMMARY[0003]In one aspect, the present technology provides a method to promote the growth and maturation of a mammalian oocyte in a subject. The method includes: engineering mammalian multi-potent cells to...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61K35/54C12N5/075
CPCA61K35/54C12N2506/02C12N5/0609A61K35/12A61P5/24A61P5/30A61P5/34A61P15/08C12N5/0605C12N2502/025C12N2510/00C12N2740/16043
Inventor TILLY, JONATHAN LEEWOODS, DORI COUSINS
Owner NORTHEASTERN UNIV
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