Dual actions of Meis1 inhibit erythroid progenitor development and sustain general hematopoietic cell proliferation

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作者
Cai, Mi [1 ]
Langer, Ellen M. [1 ]
Gill, Jennifer G. [1 ]
Satpathy, Ansuman T. [1 ]
Albring, Joern C. [1 ]
Wumesh, K. C. [1 ]
Murphy, Theresa L. [1 ]
Murphy, Kenneth M. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Washington Univ, Dept Pathol & Immunol, Sch Med, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[2] Washington Univ, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Sch Med, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
关键词
AORTIC ENDOTHELIUM; DEFINITIVE HEMATOPOIESIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MYELOID LEUKEMIAS; HOMEOBOX GENE; DNA-BINDING; HOXA9; EXPRESSION; MOUSE;
D O I
10.1182/blood-2012-01-403139
中图分类号
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
Myeloid ecotropic viral integration site 1 (Meis1) forms a heterodimer with Pbx1 that augments Hox-dependent gene expression and is associated with leukemo-genesis and HSC self-renewal. Here we identified 2 independent actions of Meis1 in hematopoietic development: one regulating cellular proliferation and the other involved in megakaryocyte lineage development. First, we found that endogenous Mesp1 indirectly induces Meis1 and Meis2 in endothelial cells derived from embryonic stem cells. Overexpression of Meis1 and Meis2 greatly enhanced the formation of hematopoietic colonies from embryonic stem cells, with the exception of erythroid colonies, by maintaining hematopoietic progenitor cells in a state of proliferation. Second, overexpression of Meis1 repressed the development of early erythroid progenitors, acting in vivo at the megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor stage to skew development away from erythroid generation and toward megakaryocyte development. This previously unrecognized action of Meis1 may ex-plain the embryonic lethality observed in Meis1(-/-) mice that arises from failure of lymphatic-venous separation and can result as a consequence of defective platelet generation. These results show that Meis1 exerts 2 independent functions, with its role in proliferation of hematopoietic progenitors acting earlier in development from its influence on the fate choice at the megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor between megakaryocytic and erythroid development. (Blood. 2012;120(2);335-346)
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