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Quality assurance of hematopoietic stem cells by macrophages determines stem cell clonality

Authors
Wattrus, S.J., Smith, M.L., Rodrigues, C.P., Hagedorn, E.J., Kim, J.W., Budnik, B., Zon, L.I.
ID
ZDB-PUB-220923-16
Date
2022
Source
Science (New York, N.Y.)   377: 1413-1419 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Zon, Leonard I.
Keywords
none
Datasets
GEO:GSE196552, GEO:GSE196551, GEO:GSE196553
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Calreticulin*/genetics
  • Calreticulin*/metabolism
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Hematopoiesis
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells
  • Macrophages/metabolism
  • Zebrafish*
PubMed
36137040 Full text @ Science
Abstract
Tissue-specific stem cells persist for a lifetime and can differentiate to maintain homeostasis or transform to initiate cancer. Despite their importance, there are no described quality assurance mechanisms for newly formed stem cells. We observed intimate and specific interactions between macrophages and nascent blood stem cells in zebrafish embryos. Macrophage interactions frequently led to either removal of cytoplasmic material and stem cell division or complete engulfment and stem cell death. Stressed stem cells were marked by surface Calreticulin, which stimulated macrophage interactions. Using cellular barcoding, we found that Calreticulin knock-down or embryonic macrophage depletion reduced the number of stem cell clones that established adult hematopoiesis. Our work supports a model in which embryonic macrophages determine hematopoietic clonality by monitoring stem cell quality.
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