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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 38, 期 7, 页码 1788-1794出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200738118
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development; stem cell; thymus; Wnt signaling
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- Intramural NIH HHS [Z01 AG000768-04] Funding Source: Medline
The evolutionarily conserved canonical Wnt-p-catenin-T cell factor (TCF)/Iymphocyte enhancer binding factor (LEF) signaling pathway regulates key checkpoints in the development of various tissues. Therefore, it is not surprising that a large body of gain-of-function and loss-of-function studies implicate Wnt-beta-catenin signaling in lymphopoiesis and hematopoiesis. In contrast, recent papers have reported that Mx-Cre-mediated conditional deletion of beta-catenin and/or its homolog gamma-catenin (plakoglobin) did not impair hernatopoiesis or lymphopoiesis. However, these studies also report that TCF reporter activity remains active in beta-catenin- and gamma-catenin-deficient hernatopoietic stem cells and all cells derived from these precursors, indicating that the canonical Wnt signaling pathway was not abrogated. Therefore, these studies in fact show that the canonical Wnt signaling pathway is important in hernatopoiesis and lymphopoiesis, even though the molecular basis for the induction of the reporter activity is currently unknown. In this perspective, we provide a broad background to the field with a discussion of the available data and create a framework within which the available and future studies may be evaluated.
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