[Establishment of induced pluripotent stem cells from adipose tissue-derived stem cells for dendritic cell-based...

Recently, studies on regenerative stem cell therapy are being encouraged, and efforts to generate dendritic cells, which play important roles in cancer immunotherapy, from stem cells are being made in the field of tumor immunology. Therapeutic acquisition of stem cells has important clinical applications. Studies on induced pluripotent stem(iPS)cells generated from somatic cells with pluripotent genes have advanced in recent years. Stem cells are reported to be found in adipose tissue (adipose-derived stem cells, ADSC). Our goal is to develop a new cancer vaccine by using dendritic cells generated from ADSC. In a preliminary study, we examined whether iPS cells can be generated from ADSC to serve as a source of dendritic cells.We introduced a plasmid with pluripotent genes(OCT3/4, KLF4, SOX2, L-MYC, LIN28, p53-shRNA)into an ADSC strain derived from adipose tissue by electroporation and subsequently cultured the cells for further examination. A colony sugges- tive of iPS cells from ADSC was observed. OCT3/4, KLF4, SOX2, L-MYC, and LIN28 mRNAs were expressed in the cultured cells, as confirmed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR). On the basis of these results, we confirmed that iPS cells were generated from ADSC. The method of inducing dendritic cells from iPS cells has already been reported, and the results of this study suggest that ADSC is a potential source of dendritic cells.