The application discloses application of MST1 interfering
RNA in promoting in-vitro differentiation of ESCs into
insulin-secreting cells, and belongs to the technical field of
biotechnology. In the process of in-vitro directional differentiation of rat ESCs into beta cells, the application infects by using an MST1 shRNA
lentivirus vector, and indexes are detected and functions are determined by using
cell biology and
molecular biology methods, and it is found for the first time that the efficiency of inducing ESCs to differentiate into
beta cell-like cells can be improved by reducing the expression of MST1. Meanwhile, how MST1 realizes the regulation of
beta cell maturation by means of PDX1 in the process of directional differentiation of rat ESCs into beta cells is described, the reason affecting in-vitro maturation of beta cells is discussed, and thus the
system of directional differentiation of ESCs into mature beta cells is optimized, which has important significance for obtaining beta cells with normal
insulin secretion function in-vitro.