重组腺病毒介导突变型低氧诱导因子1α基因转染脂肪间充质干细胞并促进其增殖

Recombinant adenovirus-mediated hypoxia inducible factor 1alpha mutant promotes proliferation of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells

BACKGROUND:To improve the survival rate of transplanted tissue, most scholars focus on cell therapy, particularly cell-assisted fat grafting. OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effect of recombinant adenovirus-mediated hypoxia inducible factor 1alpha (HIF1α) mutant on survival rate of transplanted fat particles through transfection of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells. METHODS:Recombinant adenovirus-mediated triple-mutant HIF1α was inserted into an adenovirus pAdEasy-1 system, followed by viral packaging and titer determination. Human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells were cultured, passaged and identified, and subsequently transfected with three kinds of viruses and blank vector (experimental group with transfection of the triple mutant of HIF1α; positive control group; negative control group; blank control group). Transfection efficiency was determined using enhanced green fluorescent protein labeling. Additionally, MTT assay was used to detect cell proliferation. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The recombinant adenovirus was successfully constructed and packaged in line with transfection requirements. Moreover, adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells were successfully identified by adipogenic, osteogenic and chondrogenic induction and could be used as seed cells for subsequent experiments. RT-PCR results showed that HIF1α mRNA expression in the experimental group and positive control group was significantly higher than that in the other two groups(P < 0.05). Western blot analysis showed that the relative absorbance value in the experimental group was significantly higher than that in the other three groups (P < 0.05). A significant increase in the cell proliferation was found in the experimental group, significantly different from the other three groups (P < 0.05). Therefore, our findings indicate that transfection of adenovirus-mediated triple-mutant HIF1α not only can sustain the expression of target protein in transfected adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells under normoxic conditions, but also can promote the proliferation of transfected adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells.