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Hematopoietic stem cells count and remember self-renewal divisions

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Bernitz, Jeffrey M., Kim, Huen Suk, MacArthur, Ben, Sieburg, Hans, Moore, Kateri·2016·Cell

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The ability of cells to count and remember their divisions could underlie many alterations that occur during development, aging, and disease. We tracked the cumulative divisional history of slow-cycling hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) throughout adult life. This revealed a fraction of rarely dividing HSCs that contained all the long-term HSC (LT-HSC) activity within the aging HSC compartment. During adult life, this population asynchronously completes four traceable symmetric self-renewal divisions to expand its size before entering a state of dormancy. We show that the mechanism of expansion involves progressively lengthening periods between cell divisions, with long-term regenerative potential lost upon a fifth division. Our data also show that age-related phenotypic changes within the HSC compartment are divisional history dependent. These results suggest that HSCs accumulate discrete memory stages over their divisional history and provide evidence for the role of cellular memory in HSC aging.

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  • In mice, the most primitive HSCs divide about once every four months.

    “In mice, the most primitive HSC are believed to cycle only once every ;4 months.23”

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Authors
Bernitz, J. M., Kim, H. S., MacArthur, B., Sieburg, H., & Moore, K.
Affiliations
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University of Southampton (GB)
  • Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego (US)
Corresponding author
Moore, Kateri
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-11
Volume
167
Issue
5
Pages
1296-1309.e10
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2552591666
Cited by
285
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 2
FWCI
29.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
Funders
NIH (2R01HL58739, T32HD075735)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Genetics › Mesenchymal stem cell research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
Keywords
hematopoietic stem cells, cellular memory, long-term HSCs, HSC aging, stem cell quiescence, regenerative capacity
MeSH terms
Aging, Animals, Bone Marrow Cells, Cell Cycle, Cell Division, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Platelet Membrane Glycoprotein IIb, Mice

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