PUBLICATION
Characterization and localization of side population (SP) cells in zebrafish kidney hematopoietic tissue
- Authors
- Kobayashi, I., Saito, K., Moritomo, T., Araki, K., Takizawa, F., and Nakanishi, T.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-071016-14
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Blood 111(3): 1131-1137 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/chemistry
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/classification
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/genetics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/metabolism
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- COS Cells
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Conserved Sequence
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology*
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/metabolism*
- Humans
- Kidney/cytology*
- Kidney/metabolism*
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Alignment
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 17932252 Full text @ Blood
Citation
Kobayashi, I., Saito, K., Moritomo, T., Araki, K., Takizawa, F., and Nakanishi, T. (2008) Characterization and localization of side population (SP) cells in zebrafish kidney hematopoietic tissue. Blood. 111(3):1131-1137.
Abstract
We previously showed that side population (SP) cells, characterized by specific Hoechst dye efflux pattern in flow cytometric analysis, were present in teleost kidney hematopoietic tissue, and that kidney SP cells were enriched in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). ABCG2/Abcg2 is an ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter that is known to be associated with Hoechst dye efflux activity of mammalian HSCs. In the present study, we examined the expression and function of Abcg2 in kidney SP cells from zebrafish (Danio rerio). Although the zebrafish genome has four paralogous copies of ABCG2 (zAbcg2a, b, c, and d), zAbcg2a and zAbcg2c mRNA were expressed in kidney SP cells. Transfection of COS-7 cells with zAbcg2a and zAbcg2c showed that zAbcg2a was directly associated with the SP phenotype. These results indicate that zAbcg2a mRNA is a useful marker for zebrafish HSCs. In situ hybridization in kidney tissue showed that zAbcg2a-positive cells were sporadically localized on the surface of renal tubules, and tightly adhered to renal tubule epithelial cells. This result suggests that teleost HSCs adhere to the surface of renal tubules, and that renal tubule epithelial cells are a key component of HSC niche in teleosts.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping