Enhanced placental stem cells and uses thereof
Provided herein are placental stem cells that exhibit increased survival (“enhanced placental stem cells”), compositions comprising such placental stem cells, and methods of using such placental stem cells and compositions.
1. An isolated placental stem cell, wherein said placental stem cell has been modified to comprise or express miR-16 or miR-424, and wherein said placental stem cell demonstrates increased survival relative to corresponding unmodified placental stem cells when cultured under one or more conditions that cause cell death.
2. The isolated placental stem cell of claim 1 , wherein said miR-16 or said miR-424 causes said placental stem cell to express Cyclin D3 and/or Cyclin E at a reduced level as compared to a corresponding unmodified placental stem cell.
3. The isolated placental stem cell of claim 2 , wherein said placental stem cell exhibits (i) decreased expression of caspase 3/7, (ii) increased mitochondrial membrane potential, and/or (iii) increased metabolic activity when cultured under one or more conditions that cause cell death as compared to corresponding unmodified placental stem cells cultured under the same condition(s).
4. An isolated population of cells, wherein at least 50% of the cells in said population are the cell of claim 2 .
5. The population of cells of claim 4 , wherein said placental stem cells in said population are C10 + , CD34 − , CD105 + CD200 + placental stem cells.
6. The isolated population of cells of claim 4 , wherein at least 90% of the cells in said population of cells are the cell of claim 2 .
7. A composition comprising the isolated placental stem cell of claim 2 .
8. The composition of claim 7 , wherein said placental stem cells are C10 + , CD34 − , CD105 + CD200 + placental stem cells.
9. The composition of claim 7 , wherein said miR-16 or said miR-424 comprises the sequence AGCAGCA.
10. The placental stem cell of claim 2 , wherein said placental stem cell is a C10 + , CD34 − , CD105 + CD200 + placental stem cell.
11. The isolated placental stem cell of claim 1 , wherein said miR-16 or said miR-424 comprises the sequence AGCAGCA.
12. A method of producing placental stem cells that comprise or express miR-16 or miR-424, wherein said placental stem cells demonstrate increased survival relative to corresponding unmodified placental stem cells when cultured under one or more conditions that cause cell death, said method comprising contacting a population of placental stem cells with an effective amount of miR-16 or miR-424, such that said placental stem cells, after having been contacted with said miR-16 or miR-424 express Cyclin D3 or Cyclin E at a decreased level as compared to the expression of Cyclin D3 or Cyclin E in an equivalent amount of placental stem cells not contacted with said miR-16 or miR-424.
13. An isolated placental stem cell or population thereof produced by the method of claim 12 .
14. A composition comprising an isolated placental stem cell produced by the method of claim 12 .
15. The composition of claim 14 , wherein said miR-16 or said miR-424 comprises the sequence AGCAGCA.
16. The method of claim 12 , wherein said placental stem cells care C10 + , CD34 − , CD105 + CD200 + placental stem cells.
17. The method of claim 12 , wherein said miR-16 or said miR-424 comprises the sequence AGCAGCA.