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Synapse Formation and Establishment of Neuronal Polarity by PI9 Embryonic Carcinoma Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells The Journal of Neuroscience, February 1, 1996, 16(3):1056-1065 Synapse Formation and Establishment of Neuronal Polarity by PI9 Embryonic Carcinoma Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells Michael F. A. Finley, Nita Kulkarni, and James E. Huettner Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and Program in Neuroscience, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri 63 110 A number of different cell lines that exhibit a partial neuronal growth-associated protein-43 and microtubule-associated phenotype have been identified, but in many cases the full protein-2 revealed segregation of immunoreactivity into sepa- extent of their neuronal differentiation has not been directly rate axonal and somato-dendritic compartments, respectively. addressed by functional studies. We have used electrophysi- Consistent with our physiological evidence for synapse forma- ology and immunofluorescence to examine the formation of tion, intense punctate staining was observed with antibodies to synapses and the development of neuronal polarity by murine the synaptic vesicle proteins synapsin, SV2, and synaptophy- embryonic stem (ES) cells and the mouse PI9 embryonic car- sin. These results demonstrate the in vitro acquisition by pluri- cinoma cell line. Within 2-3 weeks after induction by retinoic potent cell lines of neuronal polarity and functional synaptic acid, subsets of P19 and ES cells formed excitatory synapses, transmission that is characteristic of CNS neurons. mediated by glutamate receptors, or inhibitory synapses, me- diated by receptors for GABA or glycine. In ES-cell cultures, Key words: embryonic stem cells: embryonic carcinoma cells; both NMDA and non-NMDA receptors contributed to the exci- neuronal differentiation; synaptic transmission; neuronal polar- tatory postsynaptic response. Staining with antibodies to ity; NMDA receptors Because CNS neurons differentiate in a complex environment that of native neurons. Two steps in the differentiation of CNS neurons is largely inaccessible to experimental manipulation, relatively that might serve as benchmarks for assessing the phenotype of little is known about the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that deter- neurons derived from cell lines or precursor cells are the estab- mine their ultimate phenotype. To address this question, a num- lishment of polarity and the formation of synaptic connections. ber of systems that undergo all or part of the differentiation Neurons, both in vivo and in culture, develop separate axonal and process in vitro have been explored. Several groups have isolated dendritic compartments that can be distinguished by their unique neuronal precursors from embryonic brain or have produced morphology, ultrastructure, and protein components (for review, immortalized ccl1 lines by introducing oncogenes into dividing see Craig and Banker, 1994). The establishment of polarity has cells from the early CNS (for review, see Gage et al., 1995). A been demonstrated for NTera-2 cells (Pleasure et al., 1992) but separate line of research has focused on the induction of neuronal has not been directly examined for most other lines. differentiation in pluripotent cells derived from very early em- Several cell lines that resemble peripheral nervous system neu- bryos. Acquisition of neuronal properties has been demonstrated rons have been shown to form cholinergic synapses onto cocul- for embryonic carcinoma cells, including mouse P19 cells (Jones- tured primary muscle cells (Nelson et al., 1976; Schubert et al., Villeneuve et al., 1982; McBurney et al., 1988) and human 1977). Many closely related lines do not share this property NTera-2 cells (Andrews, 1984; Pleasure et al., 1992) and, more (Nelson, 1976; Nirenberg et al., 1983) however, which suggests recently, for embryonic stem cells (Bain et al., 1995), the totipo- that cell lines differ widely in their ability to differentiate in vitro tent cells that are used to generate transgenic mice (Capecchi, (Schubert et al., 1974; Fischbach and Nelson, 1977). For cell lines 1989). that resemble CNS neurons, relatively littlc is known about their For any cell type that differentiates in vitro, it is important to ask ability to form synapses in vitro. Ultrastructural demonstration of how far the cells progress along a given developmental pathway synaptic profiles has been presented for the P19 cell line (McBur- and how closely their final differentiated state corresponds to that ney et al., 1988) but physiological evidence for synaptic transmis- sion has not been reported for lines with a CNS phenotype. Received Sept. 6, lYY5: rcviscd Nov. 8, lYY5; accepted Nov. 10, IYYS Although synapses mediated by glutamate receptors are among Thia work was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (M.F.A.F.), B Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowship (N.K.), National the most common in the nervous system, it has not been estab- Institutes of Health Grant NS3OXXX (J.E.H.), and the McDonnell Center for Cellular lished whether any cell line can form functional glutamatergic and Molecular Neurobiology. We are grateful to Dave Gottlieb for advice and synapses in vitro. Indeed, only recently have cell lines that express encouragement throughout the course of this study. WC also thank the following individuals for providing research materials: Kathy Buckley, Dave Gottlieb, David functional glutamate receptors been identified, including NTera-2 James, Bob Wilkinson, and Mark Willard. We are also grateful to Audrey Ettinger, (Younkin et al., 1993), P19 (Turetsky et al., 1993) and embryonic Chris Lee. Tim Wilding, and Dave Gottlieb for critical reading of this manuscript, to Stcvc Mennerick for advice on qetting up microisland cultures, and to Min Yao for stem (ES) cells (Bain et al., 1995). Thus, a major unanswered help with ES-cell induction procedures. question remains: whether pluripotent stem cells undergo suffi- Corresoondence should he addressed to Dr. James E. Huettner, Washineton cient differentiation in vitro to form functional synapses with University Medical School, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, 660 S&h Euclid Avenue, Box 8228, St. Louis, MO 631 IO. properties expected of CNS neurons, or whether their in vi&~ Copyright Q lYY6 Society for Neuroscience 0270.h474/Yh/161056-lO$OS,O~~/O development comes to a halt well short of this milestone. Finley et al. l Synapse Formation by Pluripotent Stem Cells J. Neurosci., February 1, 1996, 76(3):1056-1065 1057 We have examined this question using paired recordings from Evoked postsynaptic responses were obtained by recording simulta- P19 or ES cells maintained in microisland cultures. In both cell neously from two adjacent cells. One recording was obtained under current clamp with a Getting microelectrode amplifier, and the other was types, subpopulations of cells formed excitatory synapses, medi- achieved with an Axopatch 200A patch-clamp amplifier in the whole-cell ated by glutamate receptors, whereas other cells formed inhibitory mode (Axon Instruments, Foster City, CA). Brief, depolarizing current synapses mediated by receptors for GABA or glycine. Immun- steps were injected with the Getting amplifier at 0.1-l Hz while holding ofluorescent double labeling revealed the establishment of neu- current in the follower cell was monitored for inward or outward deflec- tions. Postsynaptic currents that reliably followed the presynaptic action ronal polarity by both cell types, as well as the localization of potential with a delay of l-5 msec were considered to arise from mono- synaptic vesicle antigens to presumptive sites of synaptic contact. synaptic connections. The follower cell was often clamped at -20 mV to better detect outward, IPSCs. If no postsynaptic current was observed MATERIALS AND METHODS with the Axopatch amplifier, the stimulus paradigm was reversed. A brief step to 0 mV was applied with the Axopatch amplifier as membrane CeN culrure. PI9 cells were induced to differentiate using a slight modi- potential was monitored with the Getting amplifier for depolarizing or fication of procedures described by Turetsky et al. (1993). Briefly, undif- hyperpolarizing deflections that were locked to the presynaptic stimulus. ferentiated cells from the American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, Output from the two amplifiers was digitized at 3-17 kHz with an MD) were propagated in minim% essential medium (MEM), IDA12120 computer interface (Indec Systems, Capitola, CA) controlled ol-formulation (Gibco, Grand Island. NY). suunlemented with 10% fetal by in-house software using the Basic-Fastlab environment. Whole-cell bovine serum (‘FBS; JRH Biosciences, L&cx:d: KS). For differentiation, currents were filtered at l-5 kHz (~3 dB, 4-pole Bessel). Membrane -4 x IO” cells were suspended in 10 ml of (Y-MEM containing 5% FBS potentials recorded under voltage clamp were corrected for the junction and 500 nM retinoic acid and seeded onto a 10 cm bacteriological culture potential between the internal solution and the bath solution. This dish. After 4 d (or in a few cases, 5 d) of retinoic acid treatment, potential was - 10 mV for pipettes containing CsCH,SO, and - I3 mV aggregated cells were dissociated with Protease XXIII (1 mgiml, Sigma, for pipettes containing KCH,SO,. Peak amplitudes of evoked and spon- St. Louis, MO) in Earle’s salt solution (Gibco), which lacked CaZi and taneous synaptic currents were determined by averaging three to five Mg’+ but contained 200 WM EDTA, 20 7IIM glucose, and 25 7TIM NaHCO,. points around the peak or, in some cases, all points within 90%>
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