Hematopoietic stem cells reversibly switch from dormancy to self-renewal during homeostasis and repair - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2008 Dec 12;135(6):1118-29.

doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.10.048.

Elisa Laurenti, Gabriela Oser, Richard C van der Wath, William Blanco-Bose, Maike Jaworski, Sandra Offner, Cyrille F Dunant, Leonid Eshkind, Ernesto Bockamp, Pietro Lió, H Robson Macdonald, Andreas Trumpp

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Hematopoietic stem cells reversibly switch from dormancy to self-renewal during homeostasis and repair

Anne Wilson et al. Cell. 2008.

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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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