Chi Yanan, Yang Guanheng, Guo Chuanliang, Zhang Shaoqing, Hong Lei, Tang Huixiang, Sang Xiao, Wang Jie, Ma Ji, Xue Yan, Zeng Fanyi
Department of Histo-Embryology, Genetics and Developmental Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200040, China.
Life (Basel). 2023 Nov 2;13(11):2157. doi: 10.3390/life13112157.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are stem cells that can differentiate into various blood cells and have long-term self-renewal capacity. At present, HSC transplantation is an effective therapeutic means for many malignant hematological diseases, such as aplastic hematological diseases and autoimmune diseases. The hematopoietic microenvironment affects the proliferation, differentiation, and homeostasis of HSCs. The regulatory effect of the hematopoietic microenvironment on HSCs is complex and has not been thoroughly studied yet. In this study, we focused on mononuclear cells (MNCs), which provided an important microenvironment for HSCs and established a methodological system for identifying cellular composition by means of multiple technologies and methods. First, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology was used to investigate the cellular composition of cells originating from different microenvironments during different stages of hematopoiesis, including mouse fetal liver mononuclear cells (FL-MNCs), bone marrow mononuclear cells (BM-MNCs), and -cultured fetal liver stromal cells. Second, bioinformatics analysis showed a higher proportion and stronger proliferation of the HSCs in FL-MNCs than those in BM-MNCs. On the other hand, macrophages in -cultured fetal liver stromal cells were enriched to about 76%. Differential gene expression analysis and Gene Ontology (GO) functional enrichment analysis demonstrated that fetal liver macrophages have strong cell migration and actin skeleton formation capabilities, allowing them to participate in the hematopoietic homeostasis through endocytosis and exocytosis. Last, various validation experiments such as quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR), ELISA, and confocal image assays were performed on randomly selected target genes or proteins secreted by fetal liver macrophages to further demonstrate the potential relationship between HSCs and the cells inhabiting their microenvironment. This system, which integrates multiple methods, could be used to better understand the fate of these specific cells by determining regulation mechanism of both HSCs and macrophages and could also be extended to studies in other cellular models.
造血干细胞(HSCs)是一类能够分化为各种血细胞并具有长期自我更新能力的干细胞。目前,造血干细胞移植是治疗多种恶性血液疾病(如再生障碍性血液疾病和自身免疫性疾病)的有效手段。造血微环境影响造血干细胞的增殖、分化和稳态。造血微环境对造血干细胞的调节作用复杂,尚未得到充分研究。在本研究中,我们聚焦于单核细胞(MNCs),其为造血干细胞提供了重要的微环境,并建立了一套利用多种技术和方法鉴定细胞组成的方法体系。首先,使用单细胞RNA测序(scRNA-seq)技术研究造血不同阶段源自不同微环境的细胞的细胞组成,包括小鼠胎肝单核细胞(FL-MNCs)、骨髓单核细胞(BM-MNCs)和培养的胎肝基质细胞。其次,生物信息学分析表明,FL-MNCs中造血干细胞的比例更高且增殖更强,而BM-MNCs中的则不然。另一方面,培养的胎肝基质细胞中的巨噬细胞富集至约76%。差异基因表达分析和基因本体(GO)功能富集分析表明,胎肝巨噬细胞具有强大的细胞迁移和肌动蛋白骨架形成能力,使其能够通过胞吞作用和胞吐作用参与造血稳态。最后,对胎肝巨噬细胞分泌的随机选择的靶基因或蛋白质进行了各种验证实验,如定量实时PCR(qRT-PCR)、ELISA和共聚焦图像分析,以进一步证明造血干细胞与其微环境中细胞之间的潜在关系。这个整合多种方法的体系可用于通过确定造血干细胞和巨噬细胞的调节机制来更好地理解这些特定细胞的命运,也可扩展到其他细胞模型的研究中。
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