Endothelial cells are essential for the self-renewal and repopulation of Notch-dependent hematopoietic stem cells. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Bone marrow endothelial cells (ECs) are essential for reconstitution of hematopoiesis, but their role in self-renewal of long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) is unknown. We have developed angiogenic models to demonstrate that EC-derived angiocrine growth factors support in vitro self-renewal and in vivo repopulation of authentic LT-HSCs. In serum/cytokine-free cocultures, ECs, through direct cellular contact, stimulated incremental expansion of repopulating CD34(-)Flt3(-)cKit(+)Lineage(-)Sca1(+) LT-HSCs, which retained their self-renewal ability, as determined by single-cell and serial transplantation assays. Angiocrine expression of Notch ligands by ECs promoted proliferation and prevented exhaustion of LT-HSCs derived from wild-type, but not Notch1/Notch2-deficient, mice. In transgenic notch-reporter (TNR.Gfp) mice, regenerating TNR.Gfp(+) LT-HSCs were detected in cellular contact with sinusoidal ECs. Interference with angiocrine, but not perfusion, function of SECs impaired repopulation of TNR.Gfp(+) LT-HSCs. ECs establish an instructive vascular niche for clinical-scale expansion of LT-HSCs and a cellular platform to identify stem cell-active trophogens.

publication date

  • March 5, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Endothelial Cells
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells
  • Signal Transduction

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2866527

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77449121923

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.stem.2010.02.001

PubMed ID

  • 20207228

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 6

issue

  • 3