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Title: | Organoids from human tooth showing epithelial stemness phenotype and differentiation potential | Authors: | HEMERYCK, Lara HERMANS, Florian Chappell, Joel Kobayashi, Hiroto Lambrechts, Diether LAMBRICHTS, Ivo BRONCKAERS, Annelies Vankelecom, Hugo |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | Springer | Source: | CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES, 79 (3) (Art N° 153) | Abstract: | Insight into human tooth epithelial stem cells and their biology is sparse. Tissue-derived organoid models typically replicate the tissue's epithelial stem cell compartment. Here, we developed a first-in-time epithelial organoid model starting from human tooth. Dental follicle (DF) tissue, isolated from unerupted wisdom teeth, efficiently generated epithelial organoids that were long-term expandable. The organoids displayed a tooth epithelial stemness phenotype similar to the DF's epithelial cell rests of Malassez (ERM), a compartment containing dental epithelial stem cells. Single-cell transcriptomics reinforced this organoid-ERM congruence, and uncovered novel, mouse-mirroring stem cell features. Exposure of the organoids to epidermal growth factor induced transient proliferation and eventual epithelial-mesenchymal transition, highly mimicking events taking place in the ERM in vivo. Moreover, the ERM stemness organoids were able to unfold an ameloblast differentiation process, further enhanced by transforming growth factor-beta (TGF beta) and abrogated by TGF beta receptor inhibition, thereby reproducing TGF beta's known key position in amelogenesis. Interestingly, by creating a mesenchymal-epithelial composite organoid (assembloid) model, we demonstrated that the presence of dental mesenchymal cells (i.e. pulp stem cells) triggered ameloblast differentiation in the epithelial stem cells, thus replicating the known importance of mesenchyme-epithelium interaction in tooth development and amelogenesis. Also here, differentiation was abrogated by TGF beta receptor inhibition. Together, we developed novel organoid models empowering the exploration of human tooth epithelial stem cell biology and function as well as their interplay with dental mesenchyme, all at present only poorly defined in humans. Moreover, the new models may pave the way to future tooth-regenerative perspectives. | Keywords: | Tooth;Organoids;Stem cells;Ameloblasts;Assembloids;TGF beta | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/36908 | ISSN: | 1420-682X | e-ISSN: | 1420-9071 | DOI: | 10.1007/s00018-022-04183-8 | ISI #: | WOS:000761959200003 | Rights: | The Author(s) 2022 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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