Hierarchical organization and early hematopoietic specification of the developing HSC lineage in the AGM region
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Publication Year 2011-06-06,Volume 208,Issue #6,Page 1305-1315
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Publication Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The aorta-gonad-mesonephros region plays an important role in hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) development during mouse embryogenesis. The vascular endothelial cadherin(+) CD45(+) (VE-cad(+)CD45(+)) population contains the major type of immature pre-HSCs capable of developing into long-term repopulating definitive HSCs. In this study, we developed a new coaggregation culture system, which supports maturation of a novel population of CD45-negative (VE-cad(+)CD45(-)CD41(+)) pre-HSCs into definitive HSCs. The appearance of these pre-HSCs precedes development of the VE-cad(+)CD45(+) pre-HSCs (termed here type I and type II pre-HSCs, respectively), thus establishing a hierarchical directionality in the developing HSC lineage. By labeling the luminal surface of the dorsal aorta, we show that both type I and type II pre-HSCs are distributed broadly within the endothelial and subendothelial aortic layers, in contrast to mature definitive HSCs which localize to the aortic endothelial layer. In agreement with expression of CD41 in pre-HSCs, in vivo CD41-Cre-mediated genetic tagging occurs in embryonic pre-HSCs and persists in all lymphomyeloid lineages of the adult animal.
Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
Keywords
EMBRYONIC STEM-CELLS; MURINE YOLK-SAC; ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS; MOUSE EMBRYO; DEFINITIVE HEMATOPOIESIS; AORTIC ENDOTHELIUM; LYMPHOHEMATOPOIETIC CELLS; HAEMOGENIC ENDOTHELIUM; GENERATION; EXPRESSION
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Creation Date: 2011-06-06 12:00:00
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