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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
卷 34, 期 11, 页码 1976-1990出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01485-13
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- Global COE grant Cell Fate Regulation Research and Education Unit
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- CREST
- JST
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Joint Usage/Research project of the Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26440118, 24591381, 13J07573, 22130008] Funding Source: KAKEN
During mouse development, definitive hematopoiesis is first detected around embryonic day 10.5 (E10.5) in the aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region, which exhibits intra-aortic cell clusters. These clusters are known to contain hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). On the other hand, it is not clear how the cells in such clusters maintain their HSC phenotype and how they are triggered to differentiate. Here we found that an endodermal transcription factor marker, Sox17, and other F-group (SoxF) proteins, Sox7 and Sox18, were expressed in E10.5 intra-aortic cell clusters. Forced expression of any of these SoxF proteins, particularly Sox17, in E10.5AGM CD45(low) c-Kit(high) cells, which are the major component of intra-aortic clusters, led to consistent formation of cell clusters in vitro during several passages of cocultures with stromal cells. Cluster-forming cells with constitutive Sox17 expression retained long-term bone marrow reconstitution activity in vivo. Notably, shutdown of exogenously introduced Sox17 gene expression resulted in immediate hematopoietic differentiation. These results indicate that SoxF proteins, especially Sox17, contribute to the maintenance of cell clusters containing HSCs in the midgestation AGM region. Furthermore, SoxF proteins play a pivotal role in controlling the HSC fate decision between indefinite self-renewal and differentiation during fetal hematopoiesis.
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