Self-Renewal of the Long-Term Reconstituting Subset of Hematopoietic Stem Cells is Regulated by Ikaros
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2009
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Papathanasiou, Peter
Attema, Joanne L.
Karsunky, Holger
Hosen, Naoki
Sontani, Yovina
Hoyne, Gerard
Tunningley, Robert
Smale, Stephen T
Weissman, Irving L.
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AlphaMed Press Inc
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Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are rare, ancestral cells that underlie the development, homeostasis, aging, and regeneration of the blood. Here we show that the chromatin-associated protein Ikaros is a crucial self-renewal regulator of the long-term (LT) reconstituting subset of HSCs. Ikaros, and associated family member proteins, are highly expressed in self-renewing populations of stem cells. Ikaros point mutant mice initially develop LT-HSCs with the surface phenotype cKit+Thy1.1(lo)Lin(-/lo)Sca1+Flk2-CD150+ during fetal ontogeny but are unable to maintain this pool, rapidly losing it within two days of embryonic development. A synchronous loss of megakaryocyte/erythrocyte progenitors results, along with a fatal, fetal anemia. At this time, mutation of Ikaros exerts a differentiation defect upon common lymphoid progenitors that cannot be rescued with an ectopic Notch signal in vitro, with hematopoietic cells preferentially committing to the NK lineage. Although-dispensable for the initial embryonic development of blood, Ikaros is clearly needed for maintenance of this tissue. Achieving successful clinical tissue regeneration necessitates understanding degeneration, and these data provide a striking example by a discrete genetic lesion in the cells underpinning tissue integrity during a pivotal timeframe of organogenesis.
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Keywords: CD150 antigen; Ikaros transcription factor; Notch receptor; stem cell antigen 1; stem cell factor receptor; anemia; animal cell; animal experiment; article; cell lineage; cell renewal; controlled study; embryo development; erythrocyte; gene expression; ge Fetal liver; Hematopoietic stem cells; Ikaros
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