Developmental control point in induction of thymic cortex regulated by a subpopulation of prothymocytes (original) (raw)
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- Baoping Wang2,
- Aliki Nichogiannopoulou3,
- Peter Paul Platenburg4,
- Willem van Ewijk4,
- Steven J. Burakoff1,
- Jose-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos3 &
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- Cox Terhorst2
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T LYMPHOCYTES of the α/β T-cell receptor (TCR) lineage mature in the thymus, where they undergo a series of differentiation, expansion and selection events1–7. For normal T-cell ontogeny to occur, thymocytes must interact physically with cortical and medullary thymic stroma cells8–10. In parallel, interactions of the thymic stromal cells with TCR-positive thymocytes are necessary for the development of the thymic medulla10–12. Comparable requirements for the differentiation of the cortex have not been defined, however. Here we analyse mutant mouse strains to assess the function of early prothymocytes in the induction of the thymic cortex. We find that animals with a developmental block at the earliest stage of T-lineage commitment lack a functional thymic cortex. This abnormality could be corrected in fetal but not adult animals by transplantation of either fetal or adult wild-type haematopoietic stem cells. Thus a developmentally restricted interaction of fetal stromal cells with early prothymocytes is required for the induction of a cortical microenvironment. In addition, a normal thymic architecture is necessary for sustained T-cell ontogeny.
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Georg A. Holländer & Steven J. Burakoff - Division of Immunology, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
Baoping Wang & Cox Terhorst - The Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
Aliki Nichogiannopoulou & Jose-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos - Department of Immunology, Erasmus University, DR 3000, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Holländer, G., Wang, B., Nichogiannopoulou, A. et al. Developmental control point in induction of thymic cortex regulated by a subpopulation of prothymocytes.Nature 373, 350–353 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/373350a0
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