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DEVELOPMENT
Volume 150, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.201690
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Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell; Primitive RBC; Iron homeostasis; Ferroptosis; Zebrafish
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Deficiencies in primitive red blood cells have detrimental effects on the survival and development of HSPCs, potentially leading to hematological malignancies.
The crosstalk between hematopoietic lineages is important for developmental hematopoiesis. However, the role of primitive red blood cells (RBCs) in the formation of definitive hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) is largely unknown. Primitive RBC deficiencies in mammals always lead to early embryonic lethality, but zebrafish lines with RBC deficiencies can survive to larval stage. By taking advantage of a zebrafish model, we find that the survival of nascent HSPCs is impaired in alas2- or alad-deficient embryos with aberrant heme biosynthesis in RBCs. Heme-deficient primitive RBCs induce ferroptosis of HSPCs through the disruption of iron homeostasis. Mechanistically, heme-deficient primitive RBCs cause blood iron-overload via Slc40a1, and an HSPC iron sensor, oxidative stress stimulates the lipid peroxidation, which directly leads to HSPC ferroptosis. Anti-ferroptotic treatments efficiently reverse HSPC defects in alas2 or alad mutants. HSPC transplantation assay reveals that the attenuated erythroid reconstitution efficiency may result from the ferroptosis of erythrocyte-biased HSPCs. Together, these results illustrate that heme-deficient primitive RBCs are detrimental to HSPC production and may provide potential implications for iron dysregulation-induced hematological malignancies.
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