Prolonged maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells that escape from thrombopoietin deprivation

Autor: Makiko Mochizuki-Kashio, Deng Jianwen, Toshio Suda, Takayoshi Matsumura, Desmond Wai Loon Chin, Darren Qiancheng Tan, Ayako Nakamura-Ishizu
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Blood
ISSN: 1528-0020
0006-4971
Popis: Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) rarely divide, rest in quiescence, and proliferate only upon stress hematopoiesis. The cytokine thrombopoietin (Thpo) has been perplexingly described to induce quiescence and promote self-renewal divisions in HSCs. To clarify the contradictory effect of Thpo, we conducted a detailed analysis on conventional (Thpo−/−) and liver-specific (Thpofl/fl;AlbCre+/−) Thpo-deletion models. Thpo−/− HSCs exhibited profound loss of quiescence, impaired cell cycle progression, and increased apoptosis. Thpo−/− HSCs also exhibited diminished mitochondrial mass and impaired mitochondrial bioenergetics. Abnormal HSC phenotypes in Thpo−/− mice were reversible after HSC transplantation into wild-type recipients. Moreover, Thpo−/− HSCs acquired quiescence with extended administration of a Thpo receptor agonist, romiplostim, and were prone to subsequent stem cell exhaustion during competitive bone marrow transplantation. Thpofl/fl;AlbCre+/− HSCs exhibited similar stem cell phenotypes but to a lesser degree compared with Thpo−/− HSCs. HSCs that survive Thpo deficiency acquire quiescence in a dose-dependent manner through the modification of their metabolic state.
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