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BLOOD
Volume 111, Issue 1, Pages 122-131Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-04-084186
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL077923, R01 HL77923] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL077923] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) provide an important means to effectively study soluble and cell-bound mediators that regulate development of early blood and endothelial cells in a human model system. Here, several complementary methods are used to demonstrate canonical Writ signaling is important for development of hESC-derived cells with both hematopoietic and endothelial potential. Analyses using both standard flow cytometry, as well the more detailed high-throughput image scanning flow cytometry, characterizes sequential development of distinct early developing CD34(bright)CD31(+)Flk1(+) cells and a later population of CD34(dim)CD45(+) cells. While the CD34(bright)CD31(+)Flk1(+) have a more complex morphology and can develop into both endothelial cells and hematopoietic cells, the CD34(dim)CD45(+) cells have a simpler morphology and give rise to only hematopoietic cells. Treatment with dickkopf1 to inhibit Wnt signaling results in a dramatic decrease in development of cells with hematoendothelial potential. In addition, activation of the canonical Writ signaling pathway in hESCs by coculture with stromal cells that express Wnt1, but not use of noncanonical Wnt5-expressing stromal cells, results in an accelerated differentiation and higher percentage of CD34(bright)CD31(+)Flk1(+) cells at earlier stages of differentiation. These studies effectively demonstrate the importance of canonical Wnt signaling to mediate development of early hematoendothelial progenitors during human development.
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