Cultivation and differentiation change nuclear localization of chromosome centromeres in human mesenchymal stem cells

PLoS One. 2015 Mar 16;10(3):e0118350. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118350. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Chromosome arrangement in the interphase nucleus is not accidental. Strong evidences support that nuclear localization is an important mechanism of epigenetic regulation of gene expression. The purpose of this research was to identify differences in the localization of centromeres of chromosomes 6, 12, 18 and X in human mesenchymal stem cells depending on differentiation and cultivating time. We analyzed centromere positions in more than 4000 nuclei in 19 mesenchymal stem cell cultures before and after prolonged cultivation and after differentiation into osteogenic and adipogenic directions. We found a centromere reposition of HSAX at late passages and after differentiation in osteogenic direction as well as of HSA12 and HSA18 after adipogenic differentiation. The observed changes of the nuclear structure are new nuclear characteristics of the studied cells which may reflect regulatory changes of gene expression during the studied processes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cell Differentiation / genetics
  • Cell Nucleus / metabolism*
  • Cell Nucleus / ultrastructure
  • Centromere / metabolism*
  • Centromere / ultrastructure
  • Chromosomes, Human, 6-12 and X
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
  • Epigenesis, Genetic
  • Female
  • Humans
  • In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
  • Male
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / cytology
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / metabolism
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / ultrastructure*
  • Primary Cell Culture

Grants and funding

This work was funded by Contract No. 02-740-11-0779 of Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (http://fasi.gov.ru/) - AVL and Grant №27/2013 from OPTEK (http://www.optecgroup.com/) - YIV. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.