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EXPERIMENTAL HEMATOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 46-58Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2013.09.010
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) operating grant [MOP 42420]
- HSC Foundation New Investigator Award
- CIHR-Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Adel S. Sedra Award of Excellence
- Dr. Joe Connolly Memorial OSOTF Award
- Government of Ontario/Dr. Dina Gordon Malkin Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
- Frank Fletcher Memorial OSOTF Award
- Canada Research Chair in Developmental Immunology
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We describe a novel role for the orphan nuclear receptor Ear-2 in regulating T cell development. Retrovirus-mediated overexpression of Ear-2 (EAR-2++) in a bone marrow (BM) transplantation assay resulted in limited T cell development and a greater than tenfold decrease in thymus size and cellularity relative to controls. Ear-2 transduced murine BM hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in OP9-DL1 cultures showed a proliferation deficit during days 1-5 after induction of differentiation, which corresponded to increased expression of the cell cycle regulators p21 (cdkn1a) and p27 (cdkn1b), as well as increased expression of Hes1, Notch3, Egr1, and Sc1 (Taf1) and decreased expression of Gli1, Gfi-1, HoxA9, PU.1, Nrarp, and Tcf1. In addition, there was a block in differentiation at the DN4 to double-positive (DP) transition accompanied by an increase in apoptosis, similar to the deficit seen in the ROR gamma t null mouse. Gene expression profiling revealed that, like the ROR gamma t-deficient mouse, EAR-2++ DP cells had decreased expression of Bcl(XL), and increased expression of the proapoptosis gene Bad. In addition, EAR-2++ DP cells had decreased expression of Bcl11b, PU.1, and HoxA9, and increased expression of Id2. Based on these findings, we conclude that EAR-2++ cells were able to migrate to, but not fully repopulate, the thymus because of a cell-intrinsic defect in the proliferation of DN1 cells followed by a block in differentiation from the DN4 to DP stage of T-cell development. We conclude that Ear-2 is a novel negative regulator of T-cell development and that downregulation of Ear-2 is indispensable for the proliferation of DN1 cells and the survival of DN4-DP cells. (C) 2014 ISEH - Society for Hematology and Stem Cells. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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