期刊
IMMUNOLOGY
卷 121, 期 1, 页码 94-104出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2007.02541.x
关键词
bone morphogenetic protein; human thymus; thymic epithelial cells; thymocytes
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T-cell differentiation is driven by a complex network of signals mainly derived from the thymic epithelium. In this study we demonstrate in the human thymus that cortical epithelial cells produce bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) and BMP4 and that both thymocytes and thymic epithelium express all the molecular machinery required for a response to these proteins. BMP receptors, BMPRIA and BMPRII, are mainly expressed by cortical thymocytes while BMPRIB is expressed in the majority of the human thymocytes. Some thymic epithelial cells from cortical and medullary areas express BMP receptors, being also cell targets for in vivo BMP2/4 signalling. The treatment with BMP4 of chimeric human-mouse fetal thymic organ cultures seeded with CD34(+) human thymic progenitors results in reduced cell recovery and inhibition of the differentiation of human thymocytes from CD4(-) CD8(-) to CD4(+) CD8(+) cell stages. These results support a role for BMP2/4 signalling in human T-cell differentiation.
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