Gardner, Oliver FW;
Zhang, Yadan;
Khan, Ilyas M;
(2023)
BMP9 is a potent inducer of chondrogenesis, volumetric expansion and collagen type II accumulation in bovine auricular cartilage chondroprogenitors.
PLoS ONE
, 18
(11)
, Article e0294761. 10.1371/journal.pone.0294761.
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Abstract
Reconstruction of the outer ear currently requires harvesting of cartilage from the posterior of the auricle or ribs leading to pain and donor site morbidity. An alternative source for auricular reconstruction is in vitro tissue engineered cartilage using stem/progenitor cells. Several candidate cell-types have been studied with tissue-specific auricular cartilage progenitor cells (AuCPC) of particular interest. Whilst chondrogenic differentiation of competent stem cells using growth factor TGFβ1 produces cartilage this tissue is frequently fibrocartilaginous and lacks the morphological features of hyaline cartilage. Recent work has shown that growth factor BMP9 is a potent chondrogenic and morphogenetic factor for articular cartilage progenitor cells, and we hypothesised that this property extends to cartilage-derived progenitors from other tissues. In this study we show monoclonal populations of AuCPCs from immature and mature bovine cartilage cultured with BMP9 produced cartilage pellets have 3-5-fold greater surface area in sections than those grown with TGFβ1. Increased volumetric growth using BMP9 was due to greater sGAG deposition in immature pellets and significantly greater collagen accumulation in both immature and mature progenitor pellets. Polarised light microscopy and immunohistochemical analyses revealed that the organisation of collagen fibrils within pellets is an important factor in the growth of pellets. Additionally, chondrocytes in BMP9 stimulated cell pellets had larger lacunae and were more evenly dispersed throughout the extracellular matrix. Interestingly, BMP9 tended to normalise the response of immature AuCPC monoclonal cell lines to differentiation cues whereas cells exhibited more variation under TGFβ1. In conclusion, BMP9 appears to be a potent inducer of chondrogenesis and volumetric growth for AuCPCs a property that can be exploited for tissue engineering strategies for reconstructive surgery though with the caveat of negligible elastin production following 21-day treatment with either growth factor.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | BMP9 is a potent inducer of chondrogenesis, volumetric expansion and collagen type II accumulation in bovine auricular cartilage chondroprogenitors |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0294761 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294761 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 Gardner et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Developmental Biology and Cancer Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182805 |
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