201. Vascular adhesion protein-1 defines a unique subpopulation of human hematopoietic stem cells and regulates their proliferation
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Mika Kontro, Beat A. Imhof, Matti Kankainen, Alberto Pessia, Juha Laurila, Shuyu Zheng, Maija Hollmén, Heidi Gerke, Imtiaz Iftakhar-E-Khuda, Sina Tadayon, Jing Tang, Marika Karikoski, Sirpa Jalkanen, Marko Salmi, Research Program in Systems Oncology, HUSLAB, Research Programs Unit, Clinicum, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Hematologian yksikkö, Department of Biochemistry and Developmental Biology, Medicum, and Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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Male ,Cell ,Stem cells ,Amine oxidase ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cell Movement ,Mice, Inbred NOD ,RNA-Seq ,Stem Cell Niche ,OXIDATIVE STRESS ,Bone Marrow Transplantation ,Mice, Knockout ,0303 health sciences ,PROGENITORS ,Chemistry ,STEM/PROGENITOR CELLS ,Cell Differentiation ,hemic and immune systems ,Fetal Blood ,Cell biology ,Haematopoiesis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,LEADS ,Molecular Medicine ,Original Article ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Stem cell ,Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 ,Inflammation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,INFLAMMATION ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Cell Lineage ,Progenitor cell ,Molecular Biology ,SURFACE AMINE OXIDASE ,Cell Proliferation ,030304 developmental biology ,Pharmacology ,Transplantation ,IDENTIFICATION ,Oxygen radicals ,Cell Biology ,Hematopoietic Stem Cells ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,respiratory tract diseases ,Hematopoiesis ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Bacterial adhesin ,SELF-RENEWAL ,MARROW ,1182 Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology ,Bone marrow ,3111 Biomedicine ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Although the development of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) has been studied in great detail, their heterogeneity and relationships to different cell lineages remain incompletely understood. Moreover, the role of Vascular Adhesion Protein-1 in bone marrow hematopoiesis has remained unknown. Here we show that VAP-1, an adhesin and a primary amine oxidase producing hydrogen peroxide, is expressed on a subset of human HSC and bone marrow vasculature forming a hematogenic niche. Bulk and single-cell RNAseq analyses reveal that VAP-1+ HSC represent a transcriptionally unique small subset of differentiated and proliferating HSC, while VAP-1− HSC are the most primitive HSC. VAP-1 generated hydrogen peroxide acts via the p53 signaling pathway to regulate HSC proliferation. HSC expansion and differentiation into colony-forming units are enhanced by inhibition of VAP-1. Contribution of VAP-1 to HSC proliferation was confirmed with mice deficient of VAP-1, mice expressing mutated VAP-1 and using an enzyme inhibitor. In conclusion, VAP-1 expression allows the characterization and prospective isolation of a new subset of human HSC. Since VAP-1 serves as a check point-like inhibitor in HSC differentiation, the use of VAP-1 inhibitors enables the expansion of HSC. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00018-021-03977-6.
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- 2021