Chemokine polyreactivity of IL7Rα+CSF-1R+ lympho-myeloid progenitors in the developing fetal liver.

ABSTRACT: In murine ontogeny, fetal liver is the major hemato- and B-lymphopoietic site until birth. Hematopoiesis develops in largely non-hematopoietic niches, which provide contacts, chemokines and cytokines that induce migration, residence, proliferation and differentiation of progenitors. Within early multipotent progenitors an IL7Rα(+)CSF-1R(+) subset expressed a mixture of lymphoid- and myeloid-specific genes and differentiated to lymphoid and myeloid lineages in vitro. By contrast, IL7Rα(+) cells were lymphoid-committed, and CSF-1R(+) cells were erythro-myeloid-restricted. To respond to a multitude of chemokines single biphenotypic cells expressed CXCR4 and as many as five other chemokine receptors. The monopotent IL7Rα(+) and CSF-1R(+)progenitors all expressed CXCR4, and mutually exclusive,

SUBMITTER: Kajikhina K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4522655 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature