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CELL
Volume 109, Issue 1, Pages 29-37Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00680-3
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA86991] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK59279] Funding Source: Medline
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The extent to which primitive embryonic blood progenitors contribute to definitive lymphoid-myeloid hematopoiesis In the adult remains uncertain. In an effort to characterize factors that distinguish the definitive adult hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) and primitive progenitors derived from yolk sac or embryonic stem (ES) cells, we examined the effect of ectopic expression of HoxB4, a homeotic selector gene implicated in self-renewal of definitive HSCs. Expression of HoxB4 in primitive progenitors combined with culture on hematopoietic stroma induces a switch to the definitive HSC phenotype. These progenitors engraft lethally irradiated adults and contribute to long-term, multilineage hematopoiesis in primary and secondary recipients. Our results suggest that primitive HSCs are poised to become definitive HSCs and that this transition can be promoted by HoxB4 expression. This strategy for blood engraftment enables modeling of hematopoietic transplantation from ES cells.
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