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BLOOD
Volume 120, Issue 26, Pages E105-E116Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-06-440636
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- National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health
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We demonstrate a methodology for tracing the clonal history of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) behavior in live tissues in 4 dimensions (4D). This integrates genetic combinatorial marking using lentiviral vectors encoding various fluorescent proteins (FPs) with advanced imaging methods. Five FPs: Cerulean, EGFP, Venus, tdTomato, and mCherry were concurrently used to create a diverse palette of color-marked cells. A key advantage of imaging using a confocal/2-photon hybrid microscopy approach is the simultaneous assessment of uniquely 5FP-marked cells in conjunction with structural components of the tissues at high resolution. Volumetric analyses revealed that spectrally coded HSPC-derived cells can be detected noninvasively in various intact tissues, including the bone marrow, for extensive periods of time after transplantation. Live studies combining video-rate multiphoton and confocal imaging in 4D demonstrate the possibility of dynamic cellular and clonal tracking in a quantitative manner. This methodology has applications in the understanding of clonal architecture in normal and perturbed hematopoiesis. (Blood. 2012; 120(26): e105-e116)
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