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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29675-w
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- Jane Hodge Foundation
- UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/S017097/1]
- Francis Crick Institute
- Cancer Research UK [FC0010045]
- UK Medical Research Council [FC0010045]
- Wellcome Trust [FC001045]
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This study reveals an uncharacterized population of human CD34(+) HSCs, referred to as EPCR+ HSCs, which exhibit high repopulation and self-renewal abilities. Their unique transcriptomic wiring, associated with gene modules related to differentiated cell lineages, allows them to exhibit multilineage lineage output.
The heterogeneous nature of human CD34(+) hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) has hampered our understanding of the cellular and molecular trajectories that HSCs navigate during lineage commitment. Using various platforms including single cell RNA-sequencing and extensive xenotransplantation, we have uncovered an uncharacterized human CD34(+) HSC population. These CD34(+)EPCR(+)(CD38/CD45RA)(-) (simply as EPCR+) HSCs have a high repopulating and self-renewal abilities, reaching a stem cell frequency of similar to 1 in 3 cells, the highest described to date. Their unique transcriptomic wiring in which many gene modules associated with differentiated cell lineages confers their multilineage lineage output both in vivo and in vitro. At the single cell level, EPCR+ HSCs are the most transcriptomically and functionally homogenous human HSC population defined to date and can also be easily identified in post-natal tissues. Therefore, this EPCR+ population not only offers a high human HSC resolution but also a well-structured human hematopoietic hierarchical organization at the most primitive level.
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