This research was carried out to: Test the effects of umbilical cord extracts on proliferation of human keratinocyte and activity of enzyme responsible for melaline production of human melaninocyte in vitro.
Trang 1EFFECTS OF UMBILICAL CORD EXCTRACTS ON PROLIFERATION OF HUMAN KERATINOCYTE AND EXPRESSION OF TYROSINE KINASE GENE OF
MELANINOCYTE IN VITRO
Phan Kim Ngoc*; Pham Van Phuc*; Dang Thi Tung Loan*
Dinh Thanh Uyen**; Le Van Dong***
summary
Skin aging is a contuinuous process influenced by many factors such as free redicals, sun exposure etc This process is characterized with changes in many skin components, primarily affected by three main cell types: fibroblast, keratinocyte and melaninocyte Decreased number of keratinocytes leads to less soften skin; while increase or decrease melanine production will lead to imbalance of skin color leading to either backhead or vitiligo This suty evaluates the effects of umbilical cord exctracts on proliferation of human keratinocyte and melaline production of melaninocyte in vitro 25 preparations made of 4 types of extracts included: extracellular exctract of cord tissue; intracellular extract of cord cells; mixtures of these two extracts; intracellular extract of umbilical cord stem cells, were supplemented to culture media of human skin keratinocyte and melaninocyte Keratinocyte cell proliferation was evalutaetd by MTT technique; melanine production was indirectly evaluated via tyrosine kinase gene expression by Realtime RT-PCR technique The results show that supplementation of 7.5% of preparation 3-5 containing a combination of both extra- and intra-cellular extracts of umbilical cord led to the highest cell proliferation of k eratinocyte However, at this concentration, the 3-5 preparation did not inhibite the expression of tyrosine kinase gene in melaninocyte These data suggests that umbilical cord extract would be a potential source of material for skin softening product but not brightening one
* Key words: Skin aging; Skin softening; Skin brightening; Stem cell; Umbilical cord extract
INTRODUCTION
Skin aging is known to be caused mainly
by exposure to light, mostly important is
sunlight UV Aging affects three main skin
cell types: fibroblast, keratinocyte and
melaninocyte Among them, skin softness
and brightness are mainly determined by
keratinocyte
Keratinocyte is the main type of dermis,
accounting for about 90% of dermis cells,
works as barrier to protect skin from harmful
factors from environment such as pathologic
microbes (bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses), heat, UV light or dehydration [5] Once a pathogen comes to contact to skin, keratinocyte may react by secreting inflamation mediators such as chemokines CXCL10, CCL2 to attract white blood cells to the invasion places Keratinocyte plays an important role in filling up the defects of injured skin Once a wound happened, keratinocytes from hair bulb will migrate in
to fix the wound temporally the keratincytes from epithelial will replace them [3, 4]
* Hochiminh City Nationnal University
** Mekostem Stem Cell Bank
*** Vietnam Military Medical University
Address correspondence to Le Van Dong: Vietnam Military Medical University
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Melaninocytes are cells which help produce
skin pigment - melanin, to form skin color
By melanogenesis process, melaninocyte
produces melanin for skin, eye and hair
In human, melanogenesis is classified into
two types: basal melanogenesis and activated
melanogenesis In general, people who have
bright skin have low basal melanogenesis
Exposure to UV-B radiation will increase
activated melanogenesis The purpose of
melanogenesis is to protect dermis layers
as UV can damage DNA Melanin absorbs
UV very well and prevents it from penetration
to dermis [2] Melanogenesis require amino
acid tyrosine as material and enzyme
tyrosinase, by which tyrosinase convert
tyrosine to melanin
Recently, stem cells and its extract have
been extensively studied to demonstrate
that they have stimulating effects on skin
regeneration and rejuvenation, especially
skin softening and brightening It is postulated
that stem cells and stem cell-derived factors
directly and/or indirectly affect on keratinocyte
proliferation and inhibit melanogenesis
process in melaninocyte Since then, this
research was carried out to: Test the effects
of umbilical cord extracts on proliferation of
human keratinocyte and activity of enzyme
responsible for melaline production of human
melaninocyte in vitro
MATERIAL AND METHODS
1 Isolation of human keratinocyte and
melaninocyte
Adult human skin keratinocytes and
melaninocytes were isolated and cultured
following routine procedures which have
been standardized in our previous study Human skin samples, which were voluntarily donated after plastic surgery, were obtained from Cho Ray Hospital Skin samples were kept in PBS supplemented with penicillin-streptomycin and anti-mycotic and transferred
to the laboratory In the lab, skin samples were washed with 1X antibiotic-mycotic two times followed two times with D-PBS, and then placed on petri dish to remove fat tissue with blade and scissors Cleaned skin was cut into small pieces of 0.5x0.5 cm then incubated
in dispase II solution 0.5% (Sigma-Aldrich,
St Louis, CA) at 370C for 2 hours Finally, separate dermis and epidermis layers out
of each others and used them for the next experiments
In order to isolate keratinocyte, the dermis layer was cut into small pieces of 2 - 3 mm2 and then placed in flask T-25 (Nunc, Denmark) with 5 - 10 pieces per flask 2 mL medium Stemline Keratinocyte medium (Sigma-Aldrich,
St Louis, CA) supplemented with HKGS (Life Technologies, USA) was then added to the flask for culturing at 37oC, 5% CO2 in an incubator The medium was replaced every four days Sub-culture was done when the cells reached 70 - 80% confluence using trypsin/EDTA 0.25% (GeneWorld, Hochiminh City, Vietnam) During subculturing, protease inhibitor (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, CA) was used for neutralization of eccess trypsin
In order to isolate melininocyte, the epidermis layer was cut into small pieces of
2 - 3 mm2 and then placed in flask T-25 (Nunc, Denmark) with 5 - 10 pieces per flask
2 mL medium 254CF supplemented with HMGS-2 (Invitrogen, USA) was then added
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in an incubator The medium was replaced
every four days Sub-culture was done when
the cells reached 70 - 80% confluence using
trypsin/EDTA 0.25% (GeneWorld, Hochiminh
City, Vietnam)
Keratinocytes and melaninocytes of the
3rd passage were analyzed for expression
of specific markers, CD24 for keratinocyte
and CD117 for melaninocyte with the following
protocol Once the cells reached 70% confluence,
they were treated with trypsin/EDTA 0.25%
(GeneWorld, Hochiminh City, Vietnam) then
collect the single cell suspension 106 cells
were stained with specific antibody for 30
minutes in dark at 40C The antibody stained
cells were then washed two times with
FACS flow to remove unbound antibody then
resuspened in 500 µL FACSflow The cells
were then analyzed with FacsCalibur system
(BD Bioscience) All data were analyzed by
CellQuest Pro with 10.000 cells
2 Umbilical cord stem cell sorting
Umbilical cord tissues were processed
mechanically to cell suspension Stem cells
were sorted by fluorescence activated cell
sorting (FACS) method on FACSJazz system
(BD Bioscience, USA) Each stem cell type
was sorted as it stained with antibody to a
specific marker: CD90 for mesenchymal
stem cell; CD117 for epithelial stem cell;
CD113 for vascular endothelial stem cell
3 Preparation of cord cell and tissue
extracts
* Umbilical cord collection and storage:
130 newborn umbilical cords samples that voluntarily donated by biological mothers were collected for research purpose Mothers and the cords were selected following a strictly screening tests followed NetCord standards and had negative results to all HIV, HBV, HCV, CMV as described in our previous paper [1] After collection in hospitals and transferred to the lab, each cord was taken a portion with the length ranging from
18 to 22 cm The cords were then stored at -800C till further usage
* Preparation of extracellular extract:
Frozen cords were defrosted in the 37oC water bath then washed with physiological saline; sliced, add buffer (saline supplemented with protease inhibitor, Sigma-Aldrich, USA)
to protect protein from hydrolysis during the preparation process The mixture was milled thoroughly then centrifuged at 3,000 rpm for
20 minutes at 4oC The supernatant (namely as cord tissue extract or extracellular extract) was then serially diluted to different concentrations and kept at -80oC till the next usage
* Preparation of cellular extract:
The pellet obtained from above was quickly frozen with liquid nitrogen and defrosted with warm buffer (saline supplemented with protease inhibitor) then centrifuged at 3,000 rpm for 20 minutes at 4oC The supernatant obtained after this step (namely as cord cellular extract or intracellular extract) was then serially diluted to different concentrations and kept
at -80oC till the next usage The cord tissue extract and cord cellular extract were mixed
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formulas for further activity testing
* Preparation of stem cell extract:
Stem cell cellular extract was also prepared
as described above
* Cord extracts combinations:
5 main preparations were formulated: cord
tissue extract, total cord cellular extract, cord
stem cell extract, mixture of cord tissue and
cord cellular extracts, control (physiological
saline) Each preparation was diluted into
five different concentrations and form 25
testing formulas coded as followed: Cord
tissue extract: solution 1-1; 1-2; 1-3; 1-4;
1-5; Cord cellular extract: solution 2-1; 2-2;
2-3; 2-4; 2-5; Mixture of cord tissue and
cord cellular extracts: solution 3-1; 3-2; 3-3;
3-4; 3-5; Cord stem cell extract: solution
4-1; 4-2; 4-3; 4-4; 4-5; Control: solution 5-1;
5-2; 5-3; 5-4; 5-5
4 Cell proliferation assessment by MTT
assay
The cell proliferation was evaluated following
the instruction of manufacturer (Cell proliferating
kit, GeneWorld, Hochiminh City, Vietnam)
as followed: Take the 96 well cell culture
plates out of the incubator and move to the
clean cell culture area, add sterile MTT
equal to 10% of final volume, put the 96 well
cell culture plates back into the incubator for
another 3 - 4 hours; after the incubation,
take the plates out of the incubator and
dissolved the MTT formazan crystals by
adding equal volume of solvent The absorbent
was measured within 1 hour after adding
the solvent with a spectrometer (Multimode
Reader DTX880, Beckman-Coulter, USA)
570 nm (measure wavelength) and 690 nm (referent wavelength)
5 Realtime RT-PCR analysis
Total RNA was extracted as described
in our previous study [6] The Real-time RT-PCR analysis was performed on Eppendorf gradient S thermal Cycler system
(Eppendorf-AG, Hamburg, Germany)
6 Data analysis
All tests were repeated three times Value
p ≤ 0.05 is considered as statistical significant Data was analyzed by Statgraphics software 7.0 (Statgraphics Graphics System, Warrenton, VA)
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
1 Effects of different extraction formulas
on the proliferation of keratinocyte
Skin softening is one of the properties in the modern beauty products While wrinkle
is results of structural breakdown of skin extracellular proteins, large hair bulb micro scar leading to rough skin, skin softening will stimulate keratinocytes of epidermis to develop to fill up micro defects on skin With the aim to develop a product, which has skin softening effetc, we test the effects
of main ingredient on the proliferation of keratinocyte
After testing the effects of 25 formulas and identified that supplementation of 7.5%
of formula 3-5 having anti-wrinkle effect in vitro Based of that data, we continue to test
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Targeting for a skin care product that has
both anti-wrinkle and skin softening effects,
we then selected to supplement to the
culture medium 7.5% of each of all 25 formulas Data on keratinocyte proliferation are shown in figure 1
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(0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 days from left to right)
Data from figure 1 show that supplementation
of 25 formulas have different effects on
keratinocyte proliferation In general, it is
different from the effects on fibroblast, some
formulas has no clear effect on keratinocyte
in comparison to control group, esspecially
some formulas including 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 2-1,
2-3, 2-5, 4-1, 4-3, 4-4 inhibite the proliferation
of keratinocyte Among 25 formulas tested,
formula 3-5 also shows most positive effects
in stimulation the proliferation of human
keratinocyte
Similar to the effects of umbilical cord
extracts on fibroblast, keratinocytes also
requires both extracellular and intracellular
proteins in order to get optimum proliferation
rate in comparison to just adding either
extracellular or intracellular extract
2 Evaluation of concentration of formula
3-5 melanin production in melaninocyte
Melanin is natural pigment of skin, produced
by melaninocyte Skin pigments make skin
darker; increasement of melanin production
in some places make black spots on skin
Consequently, black spots are condition
caused by over melanin production
All melanin are made from polyacetylene
Most of them are products of tyrosine amino
acid Melanin synthesis from tyrosin requires
enzyme tyrosine kinase Since then in evaluation of skin brightness we indirectly test the ability to inhibit enzyme tyrosine kinase by RT-PCR The data show that supplementation of formula 3-5 at 7.5% to melaninocyte culture medium; the expression
of tyrosine kinase gene did not decrease as compared to control (repeated three times,
p > 0,5) (Figure 2.) It is clear that formula
3-5 did not inhibit the expression of tyrosine kinase gene; in the other words it did not reduce melanin production in melaninocyte
Figure 2: Comparison of tyrosine kinase gene
expression between control and formula
3-5 supplemented group
In short, formula 3-5 from umbilical crod cells/tissue lack of factor that reduce melanin production In order to produce a brightening skin care product, one may think of adding
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melanin production or stimulation of melanin
breakdown
CONCLUSION
This in vitro study demonstrates that
umbilical cord extracts have some effetcs
on human skin keratinocyte Especially, formula
3-5 which is mixture of cord tissue and
cellular extracts, keratinocyte got strongest
stimulation effect at 7.5% However, at this
concentration, no inhibition on melanin
production was observed These data suggest
that umbilical cord extracts can be used for
development of skin softening but not
brightening product
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This research was partially financially
supported by research project “Development
and evaluation the effects of beauty product
from umbilical cord stem cell” Code:
188-2010 sponsored by Department of Science
and Technology of Hochiminh City
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