Comment[ArrayExpressAccession] E-GEOD-47921 MAGE-TAB Version 1.1 Public Release Date 2016-06-10 Investigation Title Human adult white matter progenitor cells are multipotent neuroprogenitors identical to adult hippocampal progenitors Comment[Submitted Name] Human adult white matter progenitor cells are multipotent neuroprogenitors identical to adult hippocampal progenitors Experiment Description Adult neural progenitor cells (aNPCs) are a potential autologous cell source for cell replacement in neurologic diseases such as Parkinson’s disease or stroke or for cell-based gene therapy for neurometabolic diseases. Easy accessibility, long-term expandability and detailed characterization of NPC properties are important requisites for their future translational/clinical applications. aNPC can be isolated from different regions of the adult human brain including the accessible subcortical white matter (aNPCWM), but systematic studies comparing long-term expanded aNPCWM with aNPC from neurogenic brain regions to check for their NPC characteristics and performance are not available. Freshly isolated cells from subcortical white matter and hippocampus (aNPCHIP) expressed oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) markers such as A2B5, NG2 and OLIG2 in ~20% of cells but no neural stem cell (NSC) markers such CD133 (Prominin1), NESTIN, SOX2 or PAX6. The EGF receptor (EGFR) protein was expressed in 18% of aNPCWM and 7% of aNPCHIP, but only a small fraction of 1 cell out 694 cells from white matter and only 1 out of 1,331 hippocampal cells were able to generate neurospheres. Studies comparing subcortical aNPCWM with their hippocampal counterparts showed that both NPC types expressed mainly markers of glial origin such as NG2, A2B5 and OLIG2, and the NSC/NPC marker Nestin, but no pericyte markers. Both NPC types were able to produce fully mature neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in comparable amounts to fetal NSC. Whole transcriptome analyses finally confirmed the strong similarity of aNPCWM with aNPCHIP. Our data show that aNPCWM are multipotent NPC with long-term expandability capacity similar to NPC from hippocampus making them an easily accessible source for possible autologous NPC-based treatment strategies. Isolation and propagation of multipotent NPCs. Adult human hippocampal (hip) and subcortical white matter (wm) tissue was obtained from routine epilepsy surgery procedures following informed consent of the subjects. All procedures were in accordance with the Helsinki convention and approved by the Ethical Committee of the University of Dresden (No. 47032006). All subjects underwent high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging excluding tumors and were screened for the presence of infectious disease. In all cases the neuropathological examinations did not reveal evidences for tumor formation. Gene expression Single-channel oligonucleotide microarray analysis. For the gene expression microarray analysis we used the Affimetrix U133A chips containing 22.215 probe sets representing at least 12.905 individual genes. The whole procedure was performed following the manufacturer’s standard protocol (Affimetrix, Santa Clara, CA). For the data processing, normalization was calculated with the GCRMA (GC content corrected Robust Multi-array Analysis) algorithm. fNSC: Human fetal neural stem cells, 2 biological rep aNPChip: Human adult neural progenitor cells isolated from hippocampus, 3 biological rep aNPCwm: Human adult neural progenitor cells isolated from white matter, 2 biological rep Term Source Name ArrayExpress EFO Term Source File http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/ http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl Person Last Name Araúzo-Bravo Lojewski Hermann Wegner Arauzo-Bravo Hallmeyer-Elgner Kirsch Schwarz Schoeler Storch Person First Name Marcos Xenia Andreas Florian Marcos Susanne Matthias Johannes Hans Alexander Person Mid Initials J J R Person Email mararabra@yahoo.co.uk Person Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine Person Phone +49 251 70365 326 Person Address Cell and Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Rontgenstr. 20, Muenster, Germany Person Roles submitter Protocol Name P-GSE47921-1 P-GSE47921-3 P-GSE47921-4 P-GSE47921-2 P-GSE47921-5 Protocol Description CEL files were processed using the BioConductor software package (www.bioconductor.org). Normalization was done employing GCRMA. Scatter plots were performed using in-house developed functions in Matlab. ID_REF = VALUE = GCRMA normalized Biotin labeling and fragmentation were performed according to the Affymetrix user manual. cRNA was hybridized to HG-U133A GeneChip expression arrays (Affymetrix). RNA was extracted using the RNeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). The arrays were washed and stained and stained automatically on a GeneChip Fluidics station 450 (Affymetrix) and scanned in a GeneChip scanner 3000 (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA). Protocol Type normalization data transformation protocol labelling protocol hybridization protocol nucleic acid extraction protocol array scanning protocol Experimental Factor Name cell type origin Experimental Factor Type cell type origin Comment[SecondaryAccession] GSE47921 Comment[GEOReleaseDate] 2016-06-10 Comment[ArrayExpressSubmissionDate] 2013-06-13 Comment[GEOLastUpdateDate] 2016-06-10 Comment[AEExperimentType] transcription profiling by array SDRF File E-GEOD-47921.sdrf.txt