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  • Title: Enhancement of differentiation of human lens epithelium in tissue culture by changes in cell-substrate adhesion.
    Author: Arita T, Lin LR, Susan SR, Reddy VN.
    Journal: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci; 1990 Nov; 31(11):2395-404. PubMed ID: 2243005.
    Abstract:
    Differentiation of human lens epithelial (HLE) cells cultured in vitro was drastically accelerated when the cells were cultured on cell-substrate adhesion-free surfaces. Spontaneous differentiation of the lens epithelial cells in monolayer cultures could be recognized with the appearance of lentoid bodies after 40-50 days if maintained without further passage. Although dissociated HLE cells reconstituted into monolayers consistently on the haptotactic substrates (either gold-coated biopore membrane or regular plastic dishes), the cells from the same batches exclusively formed cell aggregates when cultured on either biopore membrane or agarose-coated plastic dishes (nonhaptotactic). The cells on nonadhesion substrate first aggregate, then synchronously develop into lentoids by the 10th day of culture. The differentiation of HLE cells into lentoid structures with lens-fiber characteristics was documented by both ultrastructural and biochemical markers, such as loss of cytoplasmic organelles, formation of gap junctions, and the expression of gamma-crystallin and MP26. The system, in which differentiation of epithelial cells can be induced predictably in a short period of time, provides an excellent model for the study of differentiation and gene expression in human lens cells cultured in vitro.
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