The Potential Use of Intestinal Stem Cells to Treat Patients with Intestinal Failure
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by eScholarship - University of California UCLA UCLA Previously Published Works Title Concise Review: The Potential Use of Intestinal Stem Cells to Treat Patients With Intestinal Failure. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qr6h03t Journal Stem cells translational medicine, 6(2) ISSN 2157-6564 Authors Hong, Sung Noh Dunn, James CY Stelzner, Matthias et al. Publication Date 2016-09-16 DOI 10.5966/sctm.2016-0153 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Concise Review: Review: The The Potential Potential Use Use of of Intestinal Intestinal Stem Stem Cells to to Treat Treat Patients Patients with With Intestinal Intestinal Failure Failure aDivision of Gastroenterology SUNG NOH HONG,a,b JAMES C.Y. DUNN,c MATTHIAS STELZNER,d,e MART´IN G. MART´INa and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Key Words. Intestinal failure x Congenital diarrhea x Microvillus inclusion disease x x Hospital and David Geffen Congenital tufting enteropathy Intestinal stem cell School of Medicine, University of California Los ABSTRACT Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; bDepartment Intestinal failure is a rare life-threatening condition that results in the inability to maintain normal of Medicine, Samsung growth and hydration status by enteral nutrition alone. Although parenteral nutrition and whole or- Medical Center, gan allogeneic transplantation have improved the survival of these patients, current therapies are associated with a high risk for morbidity and mortality. Development of methods to propagate adult Sungkyunkwan University human intestinal stem cells (ISCs) and pluripotent stem cells raises the possibility of using stem cell- School of Medicine, Seoul, c based therapy for patients with monogenic and polygenic forms of intestinal failure. Organoids have Republic of Korea; Division of demonstrated the capacity to proliferate indefinitely and differentiate into the various cellular line- Pediatric Surgery, ages of the gut. Genome-editing techniques, including the overexpression of the corrected form of the Department of Surgery, and defective gene, or the use of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 dDepartment of Surgery, to selectively correct the monogenic disease-causing variant within the stem cell, make autologous David Geffen School of ISC transplantation a feasible approach. However, numerous techniques still need to be further op- Medicine, University of timized, including more robust ex vivo ISC expansion, native ISC ablation, and engraftment protocols. California Los Angeles, Los Large-animal models can to be used to develop such techniques and protocols and to establish the Angeles, California, USA; safety of autologous ISC transplantation because outcomes in such models can be extrapolated more readily to humans. STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2016;5:12017;6:666–676–11 eDepartment of Surgery, Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Health SIGNIFICANCEIGNIFICANCESTATEMENT System, Los Angeles, California, USA The field of intestinal stem cell biology has exploded over the past 5 years with discoveries related to in vivo and in vitro stem cell identity and function. The goal of this review article is to highlight the Correspondence: Mart´ınG. potential use of these cells to treat various epithelial disorders of the gut and discuss the various road- Mart´ın, M.D., M.P.P., Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, blocks that will be encountered in the coming years. Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital and David Geffen School of Medicine, 10833 area despite a normal-length bowel. A growing LeConte Avenue, Box 951752, INTRODUCTION University of California Los number of congenital disorders of the gut epithe- Angeles, Los Angeles, California Intestinal failure (IF) is a rare multifactorial clinical lium result in a generalized loss of nutrient absorp- 90095, USA. Telephone: 310-794- condition that results in patients’ inability to sus- tion capacity (Table 1). Among the disorders that 5532;e E-Mail:-mail: mmartin mmartin@mednet.@mednet. tain normal growth and nutritional and hydration ucla.edu alter the villus-crypt axis and lead to a decline in sur- ucla.edu status without the use of parenteral nutrition Received March 21, 2016; face area are microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) Receivedaccepted forMarch publication 21, 2016; August (PN) [1, 2]. The patients with IF can be classified [3] and congenital tufting enteropathy (CTE) [4, accepted10, 2016; forpublished publicationOnline AugustFirst by whether the small bowel is reduced or of nor- 5]. Several disorders that alter intestinal endocrine 10, 2016. on September 16, 2016. mal length. Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is the cells differentiation or function lead to IF despite a ©AlphaMed Press most common cause of IF, and it usually results normal surface area[1, 6, 7]. Patients with nonepi- 1066-5099/2016/$20.00/0 from extensive bowel resection, frequently due thelial forms of IF also include a broad group of http://dx.doi.org/ to necrotizing enterocolitis, congenital anomaly those with severe dysmotility disorders, such as 10.5966/sctm.2016-0153 (e.g., gastroschisis or intestinal atresia), and is- Hirschsprung’s disease and chronic intestinal This is an open access article chemia from malrotation and volvulus [2]. In pseudo-obstruction syndrome, that have vari- under the terms of the Creative adults and older children, SBS is commonly asso- ous abnormalities in smooth muscle and enteric Commons Attribution License, ciated with Crohn’s disease, resulting in severe neuronal cell differentiation or function [7]. Simi- which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, transmural inflammation that necessitates surgi- larly, an ever-expanding number of immunologic provided the original work is cal resection. Therefore, SBS-associated IF occurs disorders, such as IPEX (immune dysfunction, poly- properly cited. across the age spectrum and is generally associ- endocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked), can lead ated with prematurity and polygenetic disorders. to IF, and immunomodulatory treatment or bone In contrast, patients with the non-SBS form of marrow transplantation are efficacious in a limited IF have normal or reduced small bowel surface number of patients [3]. Most non-SBS forms of IF STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2017;6:666–6762016;5:1–11 www.StemCellsTM.comwww.StemCellsTM.com ©AlphaMedOc 2016 PressThe Authors 2016 STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of AlphaMed Press ID: srinivasanv Time: 19:36 I Path: //chenas03/Cenpro/ApplicationFiles/Journals/Wiley/SCTM/Vol00602/170025/Comp/APPFile/JW-SCTM170025 2Hong, Dunn, Stelzner et al. Clinical Use of ISCs667 Table 1. Causes of intestinal failure due to congenital disorders of the gut epithelium Inheritance Clinical disorder MIM no. pattern Gene Epithelial Congenital tufting 613217 AR EpCAM enteropathy Microvillus inclusion 251850; 600876 AR MYO5b; STX3 disease DGAT1 deficiency 615863 AR DGAT1 Syndromic secretory 270420 AR SPINT2 diarrhea Netherton syndrome 256500 AR SPINT5 Trichohepatoenteric 222470; 614602 AR TTC37; SKIV2L syndrome Neonatal inflammation skin 614328 AR ADAM17 and bowel Kabuki syndrome 602113 AD MML2 Dyskeratosis congenita 613989 AD TERT GUCY2 dominant negative 614616 AD GUCY2C Endocrine Enteric anendocrinosis 610370 AR NEUROG3 Enteric dysendocrinosis 600955 AR PCSK1 X-linked lissencephaly and 300215 X-linked ARX mental retardation Mitchell-Riley syndrome 615710 AR RFX6 Autoimmune enteropathy IPEX syndrome 304790 X-linked FOXP3 CD25 deficiency 606367 AR CD25 STAT5B deficiency 245590 AR STAT5B Interleukin-10 (ligand/ 613148 AR IL10; IL10RA/B receptors) deficiencies MALT1 deficiency 615468 AR MALT1 Abbreviations: AD, autosomal dominant; AR, autosomal recessive; IPEX, immune dysfunction, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked; MIM, Mendelian Inheritance in Man. are caused by a monogenic disorder, which may be amendable to involved in self-renewal and differentiation during homeostatic stem cell-based therapy. and stressed conditions [14]. Various methods can be used to iso- Current management of patients with IF involves close dietary late and expand both human somatic ISCs and induced pluripotent modulation of PN and enteral feeds, medical therapy, and surgical stem cells (iPSCs) in intestinal organoids that recapitulate the na- intervention. Parenteral nutrition is the mainstay of therapy for pa- tive epithelium and can be grown on various extracellular matrices tients with IF; however, its long-term use is associated with various in a two- (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) configuration [15, 16]. significant limitations, including IF-associated liver disease [8], Concurrent development of gene-editing techniques has also catheter-related infections [9], and central venous thrombosis made treatment of monogenic disorders more likely. Indeed, the [10]. In selected patients with specific features that may shorten first functional restoration experiments have been performed in survival or complicate PN, allogeneic intestinal and/or liver trans- ISCs derived from patients with cystic fibrosis using CRISPR (clus- plantation is potentially a life-saving therapeutic alternative [11]. tered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)/Cas9 However, intestinal