Murre Cornelis
Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
Genes Dev. 2009 Oct 15;23(20):2366-70. doi: 10.1101/gad.1861709.
The paths that hematopoietic stem cells take to develop from multipotent, self-renewing cells into committed lymphocytes has been a topic of debate for some time. During early hematopoiesis, multiple branchpoints have been described in which progeny cells segregate into cell lineages with distinct developmental potentials. In this issue of Genes & Development, Inlay and colleagues (pp. 2376-2381) identify novel intermediate stages through which hematopoietic progenitor cells travel.
造血干细胞从多能、自我更新细胞发育为定向淋巴细胞所经历的途径,一段时间以来一直是争论的话题。在早期造血过程中,已描述了多个分支点,子代细胞在这些分支点处分离为具有不同发育潜能的细胞谱系。在本期《基因与发育》中,英莱及其同事(第2376 - 2381页)确定了造血祖细胞所经历的新的中间阶段。