Lmo2 and GATA-3 associated expression in intraembryonic hemogenic sites

Development ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 643-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Manaia ◽  
V. Lemarchandel ◽  
M. Klaine ◽  
I. Max-Audit ◽  
P. Romeo ◽  
...  

It is now widely accepted that hemopoietic cells born intraembryonically are the best candidates for the seeding of definitive hemopoietic organs. To further understand the mechanisms involved in the generation of definitive hemopoietic stem cells, we analysed the expression of the hemopoietic-related transcription factors Lmo2 and GATA-3 during the early steps of mouse development (7-12 dpc), with a particular emphasis on intraembryonic hemogenic sites. We show here that both Lmo2 and GATA-3 are present in the intraembryonic regions known to give rise to hemopoietic precursors in vitro and in vivo, suggesting that they act together at key points of hemopoietic development. (1) Lmo2 and GATA-3 are expressed in the caudal mesoderm during the phase of intraembryonic precursors determination. (2) A highly transient concomitant expression is observed in the caudal intraembryonic definitive endoderm, suggesting that these factors are involved in the specification of intraembryonic hemopoietic precursors. (3) Lmo2 and GATA-3 are expressed within the hemopoietic clusters located in the aortic floor during fetal liver colonisation. Furthermore, a strong GATA-3 signal allowed us to uncover previously unreported mesodermal aggregates beneath the aorta. A combined in situ and immunocytological analysis strongly suggests that ventral mesodermal GATA-3 patches are involved in the process of intraembryonic stem cell generation.

1994 ◽  
Vol 179 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Bacchetta ◽  
M Bigler ◽  
J L Touraine ◽  
R Parkman ◽  
P A Tovo ◽  
...  

Transplantation of HLA mismatched hematopoietic stem cells in patients with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) can result in a selective engraftment of T cells of donor origin with complete immunologic reconstitution and in vivo tolerance. The latter may occur in the absence of clonal deletion of donor T lymphocytes able to recognize the host HLA antigens. The activity of these host-reactive T cells is suppressed in vivo, since no graft-vs. -host disease is observed in these human chimeras. Here it is shown that the CD4+ host-reactive T cell clones isolated from a SCID patient transplanted with fetal liver stem cells produce unusually high quantities of interleukin 10 (IL-10) and very low amounts of IL-2 after antigen-specific stimulation in vitro. The specific proliferative responses of the host-reactive T cell clones were considerably enhanced in the presence of neutralizing concentrations of an anti-IL-10 monoclonal antibody, suggesting that high levels of endogenous IL-10 suppress the activity of these cells. These in vitro data correlate with observations made in vivo. Semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis carried out on freshly isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of the patient indicated that the levels of IL-10 messenger RNA (mRNA) expression were strongly enhanced, whereas IL-2 mRNA expression was much lower than that in PBMC of healthy donors. In vivo IL-10 mRNA expression was not only high in the T cells, but also in the non-T cell fraction, indicating that host cells also contributed to the high levels of IL-10 in vivo. Patient-derived monocytes were found to be major IL-10 producers. Although no circulating IL-10 could be detected, freshly isolated monocytes of the patient showed a reduced expression of class II HLA antigens. However, their capacity to stimulate T cells of normal donors in primary mixed lymphocyte cultures was within the normal range. Interestingly, similar high in vivo IL-10 mRNA expressions in the T and non-T cell compartment were also observed in three SCID patients transplanted with fetal liver stem cells and in four SCID patients transplanted with T cell-depleted haploidentical bone marrow stem cells. Taken together, these data indicate that high endogenous IL-10 production is a general phenomenon in SCID patients in whom allogenic stem cell transplantation results in immunologic reconstitution and induction of tolerance. Both donor T cells and host accessory cells contribute to these high levels of IL-10, which would suppress the activity of host-reactive T cell in vivo.


Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 855-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. J. Oostendorp ◽  
Julie Audet ◽  
Connie J. Eaves

The kinetics of proliferation of primitive murine bone marrow (BM) cells stimulated either in vitro with growth factors (fetal liver tyrosine kinase ligand 3 [FL], Steel factor [SF], and interleukin-11 [IL-11], or hyper–IL-6) or in vivo by factors active in myeloablated recipients were examined. Cells were first labeled with 5- and 6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE) and then incubated overnight prior to isolating CFSE+ cells. After 2 more days in culture, more than 90% of the in vivo lymphomyeloid repopulating activity was associated with the most fluorescent CFSE+ cells (ie, cells that had not yet divided), although this accounted for only 25% of the repopulating stem cells measured in the CFSE+ “start” population. After a total of 4 days in culture (1 day later), 15-fold more stem cells were detected (ie, 4-fold more than the day 1 input number), and these had become (and thereafter remained) exclusively associated with cells that had divided at least once in vitro. Flow cytometric analysis of CFSE+ cells recovered from the BM of transplanted mice indicated that these cells proliferated slightly faster (up to 5 divisions completed within 2 days and up to 8 divisions completed within 3 days in vivo versus 5 and 7 divisions, respectively, in vitro). FL, SF, and ligands which activate gp130 are thus efficient stimulators of transplantable stem cell self-renewal divisions in vitro. The accompanying failure of these cells to accumulate rapidly indicates important changes in their engraftment potential independent of accompanying changes in their differentiation status.


Blood ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 125 (20) ◽  
pp. 3144-3152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Schinke ◽  
Orsolya Giricz ◽  
Weijuan Li ◽  
Aditi Shastri ◽  
Shanisha Gordon ◽  
...  

Key Points IL8-CXCR2 is overexpressed in purified stem cells from AML and MDS, and CXCR2 expression is associated with worse prognosis. Inhibition of CXCR2 by genetic and pharmacologic means leads to decreased viability in AML/MDS stem cells and in vitro and in vivo models.


Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 96 (12) ◽  
pp. 3757-3762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiang-Chun Hsu ◽  
Hideo Ema ◽  
Mitsujiro Osawa ◽  
Yukio Nakamura ◽  
Toshio Suda ◽  
...  

Tie-2 receptor tyrosine kinase expressed in endothelial and hematopoietic cells is believed to play a role in both angiogenesis and hematopoiesis during development of the mouse embryo. This article addressed whether Tie-2 is expressed on fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) at day 14 of gestation. With the use of anti–Tie-2 monoclonal antibody, its expression was detected in approximately 7% of an HSC population of Kit-positive, Sca-1–positive, lineage-negative or -low, and AA4.1-positive (KSLA) cells. These Tie-2–positive KSLA (T+ KSLA) cells represent 0.01% to 0.02% of fetal liver cells. In vitro colony and in vivo competitive repopulation assays were performed for T+ KSLA cells and Tie-2–negative KSLA (T− KSLA) cells. In the presence of stem cell factor, interleukin-3, and erythropoietin, 80% of T+ KSLA cells formed colonies in vitro, compared with 40% of T− KSLA cells. Long-term multilineage repopulating cells were detected in T+ KSLA cells, but not in T− KSLA cells. An in vivo limiting dilution analysis revealed that at least 1 of 8 T+ KSLA cells were such repopulating cells. The successful secondary transplantation initiated with a limited number of T+ KSLA cells suggests that these cells have self-renewal potential. In addition, engraftment of T+ KSLA cells in conditioned newborn mice indicates that these HSCs can be adapted equally by the adult and newborn hematopoietic environments. The data suggest that T+ KSLA cells represent HSCs in the murine fetal liver.


Blood ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 127 (23) ◽  
pp. 2867-2878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley S. Ma ◽  
Sarah M. Greenblatt ◽  
Courtney M. Shirley ◽  
Amy S. Duffield ◽  
J. Kyle Bruner ◽  
...  

Key Points ATRA and FLT3 TKIs have synergistic activity against FLT3/ITD+ AML cell lines and patient samples. Combination reduces the leukemia stem cell population and improves survival in genetic and xenograft AML mouse models.


Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon L. McKinney-Freeman ◽  
Olaia Naveiras ◽  
Frank Yates ◽  
Sabine Loewer ◽  
Marsha Philitas ◽  
...  

Abstract Surface antigens on hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) enable prospective isolation and characterization. Here, we compare the cell-surface phenotype of hematopoietic repopulating cells from murine yolk sac, aorta-gonad-mesonephros, placenta, fetal liver, and bone marrow with that of HSCs derived from the in vitro differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells (ESC-HSCs). Whereas c-Kit marks all HSC populations, CD41, CD45, CD34, and CD150 were developmentally regulated: the earliest embryonic HSCs express CD41 and CD34 and lack CD45 and CD150, whereas more mature HSCs lack CD41 and CD34 and express CD45 and CD150. ESC-HSCs express CD41 and CD150, lack CD34, and are heterogeneous for CD45. Finally, although CD48 was absent from all in vivo HSCs examined, ESC-HSCs were heterogeneous for the expression of this molecule. This unique phenotype signifies a developmentally immature population of cells with features of both primitive and mature HSC. The prospective fractionation of ESC-HSCs will facilitate studies of HSC maturation essential for normal functional engraftment in irradiated adults.


Blood ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 124 (9) ◽  
pp. 1492-1501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Gallipoli ◽  
Amy Cook ◽  
Susan Rhodes ◽  
Lisa Hopcroft ◽  
Helen Wheadon ◽  
...  

Key Points The JAK2/STAT5 pathway is a relevant therapeutic target in CML SPCs. Targeting the JAK2/STAT5 pathway by nilotinib and RUX in combination leads to enhanced eradication of primitive CML stem cells.


Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 96 (12) ◽  
pp. 3757-3762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiang-Chun Hsu ◽  
Hideo Ema ◽  
Mitsujiro Osawa ◽  
Yukio Nakamura ◽  
Toshio Suda ◽  
...  

Abstract Tie-2 receptor tyrosine kinase expressed in endothelial and hematopoietic cells is believed to play a role in both angiogenesis and hematopoiesis during development of the mouse embryo. This article addressed whether Tie-2 is expressed on fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) at day 14 of gestation. With the use of anti–Tie-2 monoclonal antibody, its expression was detected in approximately 7% of an HSC population of Kit-positive, Sca-1–positive, lineage-negative or -low, and AA4.1-positive (KSLA) cells. These Tie-2–positive KSLA (T+ KSLA) cells represent 0.01% to 0.02% of fetal liver cells. In vitro colony and in vivo competitive repopulation assays were performed for T+ KSLA cells and Tie-2–negative KSLA (T− KSLA) cells. In the presence of stem cell factor, interleukin-3, and erythropoietin, 80% of T+ KSLA cells formed colonies in vitro, compared with 40% of T− KSLA cells. Long-term multilineage repopulating cells were detected in T+ KSLA cells, but not in T− KSLA cells. An in vivo limiting dilution analysis revealed that at least 1 of 8 T+ KSLA cells were such repopulating cells. The successful secondary transplantation initiated with a limited number of T+ KSLA cells suggests that these cells have self-renewal potential. In addition, engraftment of T+ KSLA cells in conditioned newborn mice indicates that these HSCs can be adapted equally by the adult and newborn hematopoietic environments. The data suggest that T+ KSLA cells represent HSCs in the murine fetal liver.


Blood ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shai Erlich ◽  
Silvia R.P. Miranda ◽  
Jan W.M. Visser ◽  
Arie Dagan ◽  
Shimon Gatt ◽  
...  

Abstract The general utility of a novel, fluorescence-based procedure for assessing gene transfer and expression has been demonstrated using hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Lineage-depleted hematopoietic cells were isolated from the bone marrow or fetal livers of acid sphingomyelinase–deficient mice, and retrovirally transduced with amphotropic or ecotropic vectors encoding a normal acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) cDNA. Anti–c-Kit antibodies were then used to label stem- and progenitor-enriched cell populations, and the Bodipy fluorescence was analyzed in each group after incubation with a Bodipy-conjugated sphingomyelin. Only cells expressing the functional ASM (ie, transduced) could degrade the sphingomyelin, thereby reducing their Bodipy fluorescence as compared with nontransduced cells. The usefulness of this procedure for the in vitro assessment of gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells was evaluated, as well as its ability to provide an enrichment of transduced stem cells in vivo. To show the value of this method for in vitro analysis, the effects of retroviral transduction using ecotropic versus amphotropic vectors, various growth factor combinations, and adult bone marrow versus fetal liver stem cells were assessed. The results of these studies confirmed the fact that ecotropic vectors were much more efficient at transducing murine stem cells than amphotropic vectors, and that among the three most commonly used growth factors (stem cell factor [SCF] and interleukins 3 and 6 [IL-3 and IL-6]), SCF had the most significant effect on the transduction of stem cells, whereas IL-6 had the most significant effect on progenitor cells. In addition, it was determined that fetal liver stem cells were only approximately twofold more “transducible” than stem cells from adult bone marrow. Transplantation of Bodipy-selected bone marrow cells into lethally irradiated mice showed that the number of spleen colony-forming units that were positive for the retroviral vector (as determined by polymerase chain reaction) was 76%, as compared with 32% in animals that were transplanted with cells that were nonselected. The methods described within this manuscript are particularly useful for evaluating hematopoietic stem cell gene transfer in vivo because the marker gene used in the procedure (ASM) encodes a naturally occurring mammalian enzyme that has no known adverse effects, and the fluorescent compound used for selection (Bodipy sphingomyelin) is removed from the cells before transplantation.


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