Generation of pancreatic islet cells from human embryonic stem cells  

作　　者：ZHANG DongHui1,2,JIANG Wei1,SHI Yan2 & DENG HongKui1,2 1 Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation of the Ministry of Education,College of Life Sciences,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China 2 Laboratory of Chemical Genomics,Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University,Shenzhen 518055,China 

出　　处：《Science China(Life Sciences)》2009年第7期615-621,共7页中国科学（生命科学英文版）

基　　金：Spported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2006AA02A113);the Science and Technology Plan of Beijing Municipal Government (Grant No. D07050701350705);the Gongjian Project of Beijing Municipal Education Commission, the National Basic Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2007CB947900 and 2009CB941200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30830061);the 111 Project to H Deng

摘　　要：Efficiently obtaining functional pancreatic islet cells derived from human embryonic stem(hES) cells not only provides great potential to solve the shortage of islets sources for type I diabetes cell therapy,but also benefits the study of the development of the human pancreas and diabetes pathology.In 2001,hES cells were reported to have the capacity to generate insulin-producing cells by spontaneous differentiation in vitro.Since then,many strategies(such as overexpression of key transcription factors,delivery of key proteins for pancreatic development,co-transplantation of differentiated hES cells along with fetal pancreas,stepwise differentiation by mimicking in vivo pancreatic development) have been employed in order to induce the differentiation of pancreatic islet cells from hES cells.Moreover,patient-specific induced pluripotent stem(iPS) cells can be generated by reprogramming somatic cells.iPS cells have characteristics similar to those of ES cells and offer a new cell source for type I diabetes cell therapy that reduces the risk of immunologic rejection.In this review,we summarize the recent progress made in the differentiation of hES and iPS cells into functional pancreatic islet cells and discuss the challenges for their future study.Efficiently obtaining functional pancreatic islet cells derived from human embryonic stem(hES) cells not only provides great potential to solve the shortage of islets sources for type I diabetes cell therapy,but also benefits the study of the development of the human pancreas and diabetes pathology.In 2001,hES cells were reported to have the capacity to generate insulin-producing cells by spontaneous differentiation in vitro.Since then,many strategies(such as overexpression of key transcription factors,delivery of key proteins for pancreatic development,co-transplantation of differentiated hES cells along with fetal pancreas,stepwise differentiation by mimicking in vivo pancreatic development) have been employed in order to induce the differentiation of pancreatic islet cells from hES cells.Moreover,patient-specific induced pluripotent stem(iPS) cells can be generated by reprogramming somatic cells.iPS cells have characteristics similar to those of ES cells and offer a new cell source for type I diabetes cell therapy that reduces the risk of immunologic rejection.In this review,we summarize the recent progress made in the differentiation of hES and iPS cells into functional pancreatic islet cells and discuss the challenges for their future study.

关 键 词：human EMBRYONIC stem(hES) PANCREATIC ISLET CELLS differentiation induced PLURIPOTENT stem(iPS) CELLS 

分 类 号：Q813[生物学—生物工程]