Method of culturing wild-type hepatitis a virus using induced differentiated pluripotent stem cells derived hepatocytes

Abstract

A method of culturing wild-type hepatitis A virus (wtHAV) using induced differentiated pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes. Specifically, iPSCs were used to differentiate into definitive endodermal (DE) cell, and then the DE cells were differentiated into four stages of hepatocyte progenitor (HpSC), hepatoblasts (HB), immature hepatocytes (immHep), and derived hepatocytes (dHep), and each stage cells were inoculated with wtHAV, and it was confirmed that all cells could be cultured more than the initial inoculation amount and the culture reproducibility. In addition, it was confirmed that the differentiated cells of each stage of the present invention can function as sufficient infection hosts, as the number of HAV gene copies increased after 3 days after inoculation. And thus, by inoculating HAV at each stage of differentiation and selecting the optimal time point of culture, it is possible to shorten the culture period and establish an efficient culture system with optimal effect.

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