期刊
HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
卷 152, 期 6, 页码 397-413出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-019-01818-z
关键词
Thymus; Branching morphogenesis; Tubulogenesis; Thymic epithelium; FoxN1
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [BFU201341112-R]
- Cell Therapy Network from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [RD 16/0011/0002]
The mechanisms that determine the commitment of thymic epithelial precursors to the two major thymic epithelial cell lineages, cTECs and mTECs, remain unknown. Here we show that FoxN1 nu mutation, which abolishes thymic epithelium differentiation, results in the formation of a tubular branched structure according to a typical branching morphogenesis and tubulogenesis developmental pattern. In the presence of FoxN1, in alymphoid NSG and fetal Ikaros-/-thymi, there is no lumen formation and only partial apical differentiation. This initiates cortex-medulla differentiation inducing expression of medullary genes in the apically differentiating cells and of cortical genes in the non-apically differentiating cells, which will definitely differentiate in wt and postnatal Ikaros-/- mice. Therefore, the thymus development is based on a branching morphogenesis and tubulogenesis developmental pattern: FoxN1 expression in the thymic primordium inhibits tubulogenesis and induces the expression of genes involved in TEC differentiation, which culminates with the expression of functional cell markers, i.e., MHCII, CD80, Aire in both postnatal Ikaros-/- and WT thymi after arrival of lymphoid progenitor cells.
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