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Recapitulating endocrine cell clustering in culture promotes maturation of human stem-cell-derived β cells
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Despite advances in the differentiation of insulin-producing cells from human embryonic stem cells, the generation of mature functional β cells in vitro has remained elusive. To accomplish this goal, we have developed cell culture conditions to closely mimic events occurring during pancreatic islet organogenesis and β cell maturation. In particular, we have focused on recapitulating endocrine cell clustering by isolating and reaggregating immature β-like cells to form islet-sized enriched β-clusters (eBCs). eBCs display physiological properties analogous to primary human β cells, including robust dynamic insulin secretion, increased calcium signalling in response to secretagogues, and improved mitochondrial energization. Notably, endocrine cell clustering induces metabolic maturation by driving mitochondrial oxidative respiration, a process central to stimulus-secretion coupling in mature β cells. eBCs display glucose-stimulated insulin secretion as early as three days after transplantation in mice. In summary, replicating aspects of endocrine cell clustering permits the generation of stem-cell-derived β cells that resemble their endogenous counterparts.
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- Authors
- Nair, G. G., Liu, J. S., Russ, H. A., Tran, S., Saxton, M. S., Chen, R., Juang, C., Li, M.-L., Nguyen, V. Q., Giacometti, S., Puri, S., Xing, Y., Wang, Y., Szot, G. L., Oberholzer, J., Bhushan, A., & Hebrok, M.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hebrok, Matthias
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Cell Biology
- Published
- 2019-02
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 263-274
- ISSN
- 1465-7392 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4679
- PMC
- PMC6746427
- OpenAlex
- W2913837249
- Cited by
- 472
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 39 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 69 · 2022: 73 · 2021: 85 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 31
- FWCI
- 59.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2019-03-26)
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Cell Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (DK108666)
- University of California, San Francisco
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK108666, P30DK063720, R01DK105831)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Pancreatic function and diabetes
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Diabetes and associated disorders
- Keywords
- beta cell maturation, stem cell-derived beta cells, human embryonic stem cells, insulin secretion, calcium signaling, glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, islet transplantation
- MeSH terms
- Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Insulin Secretion, Animals, Cell Differentiation, Cells, Cultured, Fibroblasts, Glucose, Humans, Islets of Langerhans, Mitochondria, Insulin-Secreting Cells, Mice, Embryonic Stem Cells, Endocrine Cells
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