Human visceral adipose tissue microvascular endothelial cell isolation and establishment of co-culture with white adipocytes to analyze cell-cell communication

Chaurasiya, Vaishali, Pham, Dan Duc, Harju, Jukka, Juuti, Anne, Penttilä, Anne, Emmagouni, Sharath Kumar Goud, Nguyen, Van Dien, Zhang, Birong, Perttunen, Sanni, Keskitalo, Salla, Zhou, You ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1743-1291, Pietiläinen, Kirsi H., Haridas, P.A. Nidhina and Olkkonen, Vesa M. 2023. Human visceral adipose tissue microvascular endothelial cell isolation and establishment of co-culture with white adipocytes to analyze cell-cell communication. Experimental Cell Research 433 (2) , 113819. 10.1016/j.yexcr.2023.113819

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Abstract

Communication between adipocytes and endothelial cells (EC) is suggested to play an important role in the metabolic function of white adipose tissue. In order to generate tools to investigate in detail the physiology and communication of EC and adipocytes, a method for isolation of adipose microvascular EC from visceral adipose tissue (VAT) biopsies of subjects with obesity was developed. Moreover, mature white adipocytes were isolated from the VAT biopsies by a method adapted from a previously published Membrane aggregate adipocytes culture (MAAC) protocol. The identity and functionality of the cultivated and isolated adipose microvascular EC (AMvEC) was validated by imaging their morphology, analyses of mRNA expression, fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS), immunostaining, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) uptake, and in vitro angiogenesis assays. Finally, we established a new trans filter co-culture system (membrane aggregate adipocyte and endothelial co-culture, MAAECC) for the analysis of communication between the two cell types. EC-adipocyte communication in this system was validated by omics analyses, revealing several altered proteins belonging to pathways such as metabolism, intracellular transport and signal transduction in adipocytes co-cultured with AMvEC. In reverse experiments, induction of several pathways including endothelial development and functions was found in AMvEC co-cultured with adipocytes. In conclusion, we developed a robust method to isolate EC from small quantities of human VAT. Furthermore, the MAAECC system established during the study enables one to study the communication between primary white adipocytes and EC or vice-versa and could also be employed for drug screening.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0014-4827
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 December 2023
Date of Acceptance:	12 October 2023
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2024 16:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/164599

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