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Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reversibly Switch from Dormancy to Self-Renewal during Homeostasis and Repair

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Wilson, Anne, Laurenti, Elisa, Oser, Gabriela, van der Wath, Richard C., Blanco-Bose, William, Jaworski, Maike, Offner, Sandra, Dunant, Cyrille F. +5 more·2008·Cell

Abstract

Bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are crucial to maintain lifelong production of all blood cells. Although HSCs divide infrequently, it is thought that the entire HSC pool turns over every few weeks, suggesting that HSCs regularly enter and exit cell cycle. Here, we combine flow cytometry with label-retaining assays (BrdU and histone H2B-GFP) to identify a population of dormant mouse HSCs (d-HSCs) within the lin(-)Sca1+cKit+CD150+CD48(-)CD34(-) population. Computational modeling suggests that d-HSCs divide about every 145 days, or five times per lifetime. d-HSCs harbor the vast majority of multilineage long-term self-renewal activity. While they form a silent reservoir of the most potent HSCs during homeostasis, they are efficiently activated to self-renew in response to bone marrow injury or G-CSF stimulation. After re-establishment of homeostasis, activated HSCs return to dormancy, suggesting that HSCs are not stochastically entering the cell cycle but reversibly switch from dormancy to self-renewal under conditions of hematopoietic stress.

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  • Loss of quiescence is a major factor leading to erosion of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal.

    “Loss of quiescence is a major factor leading to erosion of HSC self-renewal (31,32).”
  • Because many HSCs remain quiescent for much of adult life, continuing DNA damage accumulation may eventually exceed a threshold that impairs stem cell function in aged animals.

    “Thus, as many HSCs remain quiescent for much of adult life54,55, the continuing accumulation of damage in these cells may eventually exceed a threshold that impairs stem cell function in aged animals.”
  • In the mouse hematopoietic system, both cycling and quiescent HSC subpopulations were correctly predicted to be less differentiated, but only proliferative HSCs were significantly ranked above early progenitors.

    “Although both cycling and quiescent hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) subpopulations (34) were correctly predicted to be less differentiated, only proliferative HSCs were significantly ranked above early progenitors (Fig. 3C).”

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  1. Graf, T., and Trumpp, A. (2007). Poster: Haematopoietic stem cells, niches and differentiation pathways. Nature Reviews Immunology, www.nature.com/nri/ posters/hsc/index.html.

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Wilson, A., Laurenti, E., Oser, G., van der Wath, R. C., Blanco-Bose, W., Jaworski, M., Offner, S., Dunant, C. F., Eshkind, L., Bockamp, E., Lió, P., MacDonald, H. R., & Trumpp, A.
Affiliations
  • Ludwig Cancer Research (CH)
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
  • German Cancer Research Center (DE)
Corresponding author
Trumpp, Andreas
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-12
Volume
135
Issue
6
Pages
1118-1129
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2070154483
Cited by
1,908
References
68
Citations by year
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FWCI
57.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2009-07-10)
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Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
  • Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • IRIS (submittedVersion)
  • SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
  • Bradlow Foundation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Genetics › Mesenchymal stem cell research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Blood disorders and treatments
Keywords
hematopoietic stem cells, stem cell quiescence, self-renewal, HSC quiescence, cell cycle, label-retaining cells, bromodeoxyuridine, bone marrow damage, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, hematopoietic homeostasis, computational modeling, multilineage reconstitution
MeSH terms
Animals, Antigens, Differentiation, Bone Marrow, Bromouracil, Fluorouracil, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Homeostasis, Mice, Transgenic, Uridine, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Mice, Adult Stem Cells

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