神经生长因子促进兔骨髓间充质干细胞软骨分化并抑制肥大分化

Nerve growth factor promotes chondrogenic differentiation and inhibits hypertrophic differentiation of rabbit bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

背景:神经生长因子是一种诱导神经生长的蛋白质,能调节间充质干细胞的增殖、分化等生物学行为。目的:探讨神经生长因子对骨髓间充质干细胞成软骨分化的促进作用。方法:分离培养兔骨髓间充质干细胞,将神经生长因子通过慢病毒转染的方式转染到骨髓间充质干细胞,以转染空载病毒为对照,CCK-8法、细胞划痕实验、茜素红染色、Western blot检测神经生长因子对骨髓间充质干细胞增殖、迁移、肥大分化、成软骨分化的影响。为进一步探讨神经生长因子对骨髓间充质干细胞成软骨分化的促进作用,转染空载病毒和转染神经生长因子的骨髓间充质干细胞分别加入白细胞介素1β诱导培养14 d,Western blot检测成软骨分化、肥大分化相关蛋白的表达。结果与结论:(1)CCK-8检测结果表明神经生长因子对骨髓间充质干细胞增殖没有明显影响;(2)与对照组相比,过表达神经生长因子后细胞迁移能力增强,成软骨相关蛋白Ⅱ型胶原、SOX9的表达上调(P<0.05),肥大相关蛋白Ⅹ型胶原、RUNX2的表达下调(P<0.05);(3)与空载病毒+白细胞介素1β组相比,过表达神经生长因子+白细胞介素1β组成软骨相关蛋白Ⅱ型胶原、SOX9的表达上调(P<0.05),肥大相关蛋白Ⅹ型胶原、RUNX2的表达下调(P<0.05);(4)结果表明,神经生长因子可促进骨髓间充质干细胞成软骨分化。

BACKGROUND:Nerve growth factor is a protein that induces nerve growth and regulates biological behaviors such as proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells.OBJECTIVE:To investigate the promoting effect of nerve growth factor on chondrogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.METHODS:Rabbit bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were isolated and cultured,and nerve growth factor was transfected into bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells by lentiviral transfection.The effects of nerve growth factor on the proliferation,migration,hypertrophic differentiation,and chondrogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were detected by CCK-8 assay,cell scratch assay,alizarin red staining,and western blot assay,using the transfected null-loaded virus as control.To further investigate the promoting effect of nerve growth factor on the chondrogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells,interleukin 1βwas added in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells transfected with empty virus and nerve growth factor for 14 days.The expression of proteins related to chondrogenic differentiation and hypertrophic differentiation was detected by western blot assay.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1)CCK-8 assay results showed that nerve growth factor had no significant effect on the proliferation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.(2)Compared with the control group,overexpression of nerve growth factor enhanced the migration ability of the cells,and the expression of cartilage-associated proteins type II collagen and SOX9 was up-regulated(P<0.05),while the expression of hypertrophic-associated proteins type X collagen and Runx2 was down-regulated(P<0.05).(3)Compared with the empty virus+interleukin 1βgroup,the expression of cartilage-associated proteins type II collagen and Sox9 was up-regulated(P<0.05),and the expression of hypertrophy-associated proteins type X collagen and Runx2 was down-regulated after overexpression of nerve growth factor(P<0.05).(4)The results indicated that nerve growth factor could promote the chondrogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.