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BLOOD ADVANCES
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 796-811Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003096
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- California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Major Facilities [FA1-00607]
- Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health [S10 OD026929]
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive andKidney Diseases [7K01DK115661, R03DK125661]
- Iowa State University
- FundacionSeneca
- Agencia deCiencia y Tecnologia de la Region de Murcia
- American Heart Association [16POST30690005]
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Granulin is a multifunctional protein involved in inflammation, wound healing, neurodegenerative disease, and tumorigenesis, with a newly discovered role in myeloid cell differentiation. Studies using a zebrafish model of granulin deficiency revealed impaired differentiation of myeloid progenitors in the absence of granulin, affecting wound healing and gene expression. The findings demonstrate functional conservation between mammalian granulin and the zebrafish ortholog grna, highlighting potential implications for treating myeloid disorders.
Granulin is a pleiotropic protein involved in inflammation, wound healing, neurodegenerative disease, and tumorigenesis. These roles in human health have prompted research efforts to use granulin to treat rheumatoid arthritis and frontotemporal dementia and to enhance wound healing. But how granulin contributes to each of these diverse biological functions remains largely unknown. Here, we have uncovered a new role for granulin during myeloid cell differentiation. We have taken advantage of the tissue-specific segregation of the zebrafish granulin paralogues to assess the functional role of granulin in hematopoiesis without perturbing other tissues. By using our zebrafish model of granulin deficiency, we revealed that during normal and emergency myelopoiesis, myeloid progenitors are unable to terminally differentiate into neutrophils and macrophages in the absence of granulin a (grna), failing to express the myeloid-specific genes cebpa, rgs2, lyz, mpx, mpeg1, mfap4, and apoeb. Functionally, macrophages fail to recruit to the wound, resulting in abnormal healing. Our CUT&RUN experiments identify Pu.1, which together with Irf8, positively regulates grna expression. In vivo imaging and RNA sequencing experiments show that grna inhibits the expression of gata1, leading to the repression of the erythroid program. Importantly, we demonstrated functional conservation between the mammalian granulin and the zebrafish ortholog grna. Our findings uncover a previously unrecognized role for granulin during myeloid cell differentiation, which opens a new field of study that can potentially have an impact on different aspects of human health and expand the therapeutic options for treating myeloid disorders such as neutropenia or myeloid leukemia.
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