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EphB2 and EphB3 play an important role in the lymphoid seeding of murine adult thymus.
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Journal of leukocyte biology [J Leukoc Biol] 2015 Dec; Vol. 98 (6), pp. 883-96. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Mar 25. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Adult thymuses lacking either ephrin type B receptor 2 (EphB2) or EphB3, or expressing a truncated form of EphB2, the forward signal-deficient EphB2LacZ, have low numbers of early thymic progenitors (ETPs) and are colonized in vivo by reduced numbers of injected bone marrow (BM) lineage-negative (Lin(-)) cells. Hematopoietic progenitors from these EphB mutants showed decreased capacities to colonize wild type (WT) thymuses compared with WT precursors, with EphB2(-/-) cells exhibiting the greatest reduction. WT BM Lin(-) cells also showed decreased colonizing capacity into mutant thymuses. The reduction was also more severe in EphB2(-/-) host thymuses, with a less severe phenotype in the EphB2LacZ thymus. These results suggest a major function for forward signaling through EphB2 and, to a lesser extent, EphB3, in either colonizing progenitor cells or thymic stromal cells, for in vivo adult thymus recruitment. Furthermore, the altered expression of the molecules involved in thymic colonization that occurs in the mutant thymus correlates with the observed colonizing capacities of different mutant mice. Reduced production of CCL21 and CCL25 occurred in the thymus of the 3 EphB-deficient mice, but their expression, similar to that of P-selectin, on blood vessels, the method of entry of progenitor cells into the vascular thymus, only showed a significant reduction in EphB2(-/-) and EphB3(-/-) thymuses. Decreased migration into the EphB2(-/-) thymuses correlated also with reduced expression of both ephrinB1 and ephrinB2, without changes in the EphB2LacZ thymuses. In the EphB3(-/-) thymuses, only ephrinB1 expression appeared significantly diminished, confirming the relevance of forward signals mediated by the EphB2-ephrinB1 pair in cell recruitment into the adult thymus.<br /> (© Society for Leukocyte Biology.)
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- Animals
Cell Movement genetics
Chemokine CCL21 genetics
Chemokine CCL21 immunology
Chemokines, CC genetics
Chemokines, CC immunology
Ephrin-B1 genetics
Ephrin-B1 immunology
Hematopoietic Stem Cells cytology
Mice
Mice, Knockout
Receptor, EphB2 genetics
Receptor, EphB3 genetics
Signal Transduction genetics
Stromal Cells cytology
Stromal Cells immunology
Thymus Gland cytology
Cell Movement immunology
Hematopoietic Stem Cells immunology
Receptor, EphB2 immunology
Receptor, EphB3 immunology
Signal Transduction immunology
Thymus Gland immunology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1938-3673
- Volume :
- 98
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of leukocyte biology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25810451
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1189/jlb.1HI1114-568R