METHOD FOR PRODUCING PANCREATIC HORMONE-PRODUCING CELL, PANCREATIC HORMONE-PRODUCING CELL, AND DIFFERENTIATION/INDUCTION PROMOTER

摘要

The method for producing a pancreatic hormone-producing cell according to the present invention is characterized in that a specific differentiation/induction promoter is added to a culture medium in the process of differentiating/inducing of a pluripotent stem cell or a pancreatic tissue stem/progenitor cell into the pancreatic hormone-producing cell. The differentiation/induction promoter to be used is: a polypeptide which comprises an amino acid sequence encoded by DNA comprising the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or a variant thereof; or a culture supernatant of a cell into which DNA comprising the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or DNA capable of hybridizing with DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence complementary to the aforementioned DNA under stringent conditions is integrated as a foreign gene.