The present invention relates to artificial skin using fibroblasts and keratinocytes, and more particularly, to a manufacturing method of artificial skin using cells differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
Until now, a possibility of making artificial skin by culturing fibroblasts or culturing keratinocytes from stem cells has been known through several academic papers. For this purpose, primary cultured cells are also able to be actually purchased from a commercial company (ATCC, USA).
However, these primary cultured cells have limitations in proliferation and vary greatly by object (LOT). For example, primary cultured cells once purchased could make six artificial skins through proliferation, but the primary cultured cells need to be purchased again for additional production. However, the characteristics of the artificial skins produced were not constant due to a large change in the characteristics of each primary cultured cell. This is because the change in the characteristics depends on which donor the primary cultured cells were received from.
Accordingly, the research and development of technology capable of mass-producing artificial skins having predetermined characteristics are required.
Therefore, the present invention has been derived to solve the problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing method of artificial skin using fibroblasts and keratinocytes differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells.
Meanwhile, the technical objects to be achieved in the present invention are not limited to the aforementioned technical objects, and other technical objects, which are not mentioned above, will be apparently understood to a person having ordinary skill in the art from the following description.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a manufacturing method of artificial skin using cells differentiated from iPSCs including the steps of: preparing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) of a donor (S100): performing differentiating fibroblasts from the iPSCs (S140) and differentiating keratinocytes from the iPSCs (S120) simultaneously or sequentially: injecting the fibroblasts and the keratinocytes using a 3D printer (S160); and manufacturing artificial skin by co-culturing the injected fibroblasts and keratinocytes (S160).
In addition, the donor may be one person.
In addition, in the injecting step (S160), the fibroblasts and the keratinocytes may be injected in pattern forms.
In addition, the differentiating step (S140) of the fibroblasts may be performed by adding at least one of fetal bovine serum (FBS), insulin, epidermal growth factor (EGF), bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4), and non essential amino acid (NEAA) in a Dulbecco's modified eagle medium (DMEM).
In addition, the DMEM may be a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 3:1 from the differentiation start day to day 6, a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 1:1 from day 7 to day 13, and a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 3:1 from day 14 to day 21.
In addition, the DMEM may be added with 5% of the FBS from the differentiation start day to day 21, 5 μ/ml of the insulin and 10 ng/ml of the EGF from the differentiation start day to day 6, and 5 μg/ml of the insulin and 10 ng/ml of the EGF from day 14 to day 21, 25 ng/ml of the BMP4 from day 4 to day 6, and 1% of the NEAA from day 7 to day 13, respectively.
In addition, the differentiating step (S120) of the keratinocytes may be performed by adding at least one of FBS, insulin, EGF, BMP4, NEAA, retinol acid, and CaCl2 to the DMEM medium or dkSFM culture medium.
In addition, the DMEM may be a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 3:1 from the differentiation start day to day 7, and the dkSFM culture medium may be used from day 8 to day 21.
In addition, the medium may be added with 2% of the FBS from the differentiation start day to day 7, 5 μg/ml of the insulin from the differentiation start day to day 21, 25 ng/ml of the EGF from the differentiation start day to day 7, 20 ng/ml of the EGF from day 8 to day 21, 25 ng/ml of the BMP4 from the differentiation start day to day 7, 20 ng/ml of the BMP4 from day 8 to day 15, 10 ng/ml of the BMP4 from day 16 to day 21, 1 g/ml of the retinol acid from the differentiation start day to day 15, and 1.2 mM of CaCl2 from day 18 to day 21, respectively.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, since skin cells are prepared using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) donated from a single donor, there is an advantage that there is no limit to proliferation, there is a small difference in characteristics between the prepared cells, and the quality is constant.
Effects which can be obtained in the present invention are not limited to the aforementioned effects and other unmentioned effects will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.
The accompanying drawings of this specification exemplify a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the spirit of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and thus it will be understood that the present invention is not limited to only contents illustrated in the accompanying drawings:
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail so as to be easily implemented by those skilled in the art, with reference to the accompanying drawings. A description of the present invention is merely an embodiment for a structural or functional description and the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited by embodiments described in a text. That is, since the embodiment can be variously changed and have various forms, the scope of the present invention should be understood to include equivalents capable of realizing the technical spirit. Further, since a specific embodiment does not necessarily mean that it should include all objects or effects or include only the effect, it should not be understood that the scope of the present invention is limited by the object or effect.
Meanings of terms described in the present invention should be understood as follows.
The terms “first”, “second”, and the like are used to differentiate a certain component from other components, but the scope of rights should not be construed to be limited by the terms. For example, a first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may be referred to as the first component. It should be understood that, when it is described that a component is “connected to” the other component, the component may be directly connected to the other component or another component may be present therebetween. In contrast, it should be understood that when it is described that a component is “directly connected to” the other component, another component is not present therebetween. Meanwhile, other expressions describing the relationship between the components, that is, expressions such as “between” and “directly between” or “adjacent to” and “directly adjacent to” should be similarly interpreted.
It should be understood that the singular expression encompasses a plurality of expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise and it should be understood that term “including” or “having” indicates that a feature, a number, a step, an operation, a component, a part or the combination thereof described in the specification is present, but does not exclude a possibility of presence or addition of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts or combinations thereof, in advance.
If it is not contrarily defined, all terms used herein have the same meanings as those generally understood by those skilled in the art. Terms which are defined in a generally used dictionary should be interpreted to have the same meaning as the meaning in the context of the related art, and are not interpreted as an ideal meaning or excessively formal meanings unless clearly defined in the present invention.
In order to verify the pluripotency of reprogrammed BJ-iPSC cells, alkaline phosphatase staining is performed, and the staining is confirmed in all iPSC colonies as shown in
Next, differentiating fibroblasts from iPSCs (S140) and differentiating keratinocytes from iPSCs (S120) are performed independently at the same time or sequentially.
Hereinafter, the differentiating of fibroblasts (S140) will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Next, on the differentiation start day (D0), a Dulbecco's modified eagle medium (DMEM) is a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 3:1 from the differentiation start day to day 6, a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 1:1 from day 7 to day 13, and a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 3:1 from day 14 to day 21. Specifically, 55 embryoid bodies (hiPSCs-EBs) are seeded in a 60-mm dish.
In addition, the medium is added with 5% fetal bovine serum (FBS) from the differentiation start day (DO) to day 21 (D21), 5 μg/ml of insulin and 10 ng/ml of epidermal growth factor (EGF) from the differentiation start day (DO) to day 6 (D6), 5μg/ml of insulin and 10 ng/ml of EGF from day 14 (D14) (subculture) to day 21 (D21), 25 ng/ml of bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) from day 4 (D4) to day 6 (D6), and 1% non essential amino acid (NEAA) from day 7 (D7) to day 13 (D13), respectively. In addition, the medium is subcultured on day 18 (D18).
At this time, as an extracellular matrix (ECM), a dish coated with hESC-qualified Matrigel (1:100) is used from day 3 (D-3) before the start of differentiation (D-3) to day 12 (D12), and a dish coated with from Type I collagen is used between day 13 (D13) to day 21 (D21). Through this process, the differentiation of fibroblasts is completed on the day 21 (D21).
In addition,
To confirm whether fibroblast markers are expressed in differentiated fibroblasts and whether specific mRNAs are expressed in differentiated fibroblasts, fluorescence staining is performed.
Hereinafter, the differentiating of the keratinocytes (S120) will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The DMEM medium is a DMEM/F12 medium with a composition of 3:1 from the differentiation start day (D0) to day 7 (D7), and a dkSFM culture medium is used from day 8 (D8) to day 21 (D21).
In addition, the medium is added with 2% FBS from the differentiation start day (D0) to day 7 (D7), 5 μg/ml of insulin from the differentiation start day (D0) to day 21 (D21), 25 ng/ml of EGF from the differentiation start day (D0) to day 7 (D7), 20 ng/ml of EGF from day 8 (D8) to day 21 (D21), 25 ng/ml of BMP4 from the differentiation start day (DO) to day 7 (D7), 20 ng/ml of BMP4 from day 8 (D8) to day 15 (D15), 10 ng/ml of BMP4 from day 16 (D16) to day 21 (D21), 1 μg/ml of retinol acid from the differentiation start day (D0) to day 15 (D15), and 1.2 mM CaCl2 from day 18 (D18) to day 21 (D21), respectively.
At this time, as the ECM, a dish coated with hESC-qualified Matrigel (1:100) is used from day 3 (D-3) before the start of differentiation to 21 days (D21). Through this process, the differentiation of the keratinocytes is completed on day 21 (D21).
Hereinafter, a manufacturing process of artificial skin will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Differentiated keratinocytes and fibroblasts are injected in specific patterns by a 3D printer (S160).
An X-axis driver 182 is installed on the transfer stage 181 to reciprocate a Y-axis driver 184 and a mounting table 110 in an X-axis direction. The Y-axis driver 184 is installed on the X-axis driver 182 to reciprocate the mounting table 110 in the Y-axis direction. To this end, servomotors and driving circuits are embedded in the X, Y, and Z-axis drivers 182, 184, and 185.
A flat plate 120 is fixed on the mounting table 110, and deposited with a keratinocyte liquid and a fibroblast liquid.
In a keratinocyte liquid container 140, the keratinocytes differentiated according to the present invention are mixed with a liquid, and in a fibroblast container 150, the fibroblasts differentiated according to the present invention are mixed with a liquid.
A first transfer pipe 145 is connected between the keratinocyte liquid container 140 and an injection device 160, and transfers the keratinocyte liquid to the injection device 160 by a suction force of a pump (not illustrated). A second transfer pipe 155 is connected between the fibroblast liquid container 150 and the injection device 160, and transfers the fibroblast liquid to the injection device 160 by the suction force of the pump (not illustrated).
First and second nozzles 125 are independently positioned at the lower end of the injection device 160 and intermittently inject the liquid toward the flat plate 120.
To implement artificial skin, the keratinocyte liquid and the fibroblast liquid may be selectively injected to form a plurality of layers. In addition, the 3D printer 100 may inject the keratinocyte liquid and the fibroblast liquid in pre-programmed specific patterns (wrinkle shapes, wavy patterns, fingerprints, etc.).
The injected flat plate 120 is co-cultured to complete artificial skin (S180).
The X, Y, and Z-axis drivers 182, 184, and 185 of the present invention may also be implemented by X, Y, and Z-axis Cartesian robots. In addition, the present invention may be used for the formation and culture of mimics of various human tissues such as comeas and tumors, artificial organs, artificial tissues, etc., in addition to artificial skin.
Detailed descriptions of the preferred embodiments of the present invention disclosed as described above are provided so as for those skilled in the art to implement and execute the present invention. The present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, but those skilled in the art will understand that the present invention can be variously modified and changed without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, those skilled in the art may use the respective components disclosed in the embodiments by combining the respective components with each other. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein, but intends to grant the widest range which is coherent with the principles and new features disclosed herein.
The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit and essential characteristics of the present invention. Accordingly, the aforementioned detailed description should not be construed as restrictive in all terms and should be exemplarily considered. The scope of the present invention should be determined by rational construing of the appended claims and all modifications within an equivalent scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention. The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein, but intends to grant the widest range which is coherent with the principles and new features presented herein. Further, the claims that are not expressly cited in the claims are combined to form an embodiment or be included in a new claim by an amendment after the application.
The present invention relates to artificial skin using fibroblasts and keratinocytes, and more particularly, to a manufacturing method of artificial skin using cells differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
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10-2022-0083339 | Jul 2022 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/KR2023/009095 | 6/29/2023 | WO |