Adult Cancer Program, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Department of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Nat Cell Biol. 2022 Aug;24(8):1211-1225. doi: 10.1038/s41556-022-00955-3. Epub 2022 Jul 28.
Mouse haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) first emerge at embryonic day 10.5 (E10.5), on the ventral surface of the dorsal aorta, by endothelial-to-haematopoietic transition. We investigated whether mesenchymal stem cells, which provide an essential niche for long-term HSCs (LT-HSCs) in the bone marrow, reside in the aorta-gonad-mesonephros and contribute to the development of the dorsal aorta and endothelial-to-haematopoietic transition. Here we show that mesoderm-derived PDGFRA stromal cells (Mesp1 PSCs) contribute to the haemogenic endothelium of the dorsal aorta and populate the E10.5-E11.5 aorta-gonad-mesonephros but by E13.5 were replaced by neural-crest-derived PSCs (Wnt1 PSCs). Co-aggregating non-haemogenic endothelial cells with Mesp1 PSCs but not Wnt1 PSCs resulted in activation of a haematopoietic transcriptional programme in endothelial cells and generation of LT-HSCs. Dose-dependent inhibition of PDGFRA or BMP, WNT and NOTCH signalling interrupted this reprogramming event. Together, aorta-gonad-mesonephros Mesp1 PSCs could potentially be harnessed to manufacture LT-HSCs from endothelium.
小鼠造血干细胞(HSCs)最早于胚胎第 10.5 天(E10.5)在背主动脉的腹侧表面通过内皮细胞向造血细胞的转变而出现。我们研究了骨髓中长时程造血干细胞(LT-HSCs)的重要龛位是否存在于中胚层衍生的血小板衍生生长因子受体α基质细胞(Mesp1 PSCs)中,以及它们是否参与背主动脉的发育和内皮细胞向造血细胞的转变。在这里,我们显示中胚层衍生的血小板衍生生长因子受体α基质细胞(Mesp1 PSCs)有助于背主动脉的造血内皮细胞的形成,并在 E10.5-E11.5 时期占据主动脉-性腺-中肾,但到 E13.5 时被神经嵴衍生的 PSCs(Wnt1 PSCs)所取代。将非造血内皮细胞与 Mesp1 PSCs 而非 Wnt1 PSCs 共同聚集,可导致内皮细胞中造血转录程序的激活,并产生 LT-HSCs。PDGFRA 或 BMP、WNT 和 NOTCH 信号的剂量依赖性抑制中断了这种重编程事件。总之,来自中肾-性腺-中肾的 Mesp1 PSCs 可能被用来从内皮细胞制造 LT-HSCs。