Lineage specification of human dendritic cells is marked by IRF8 expression in hematopoietic stem cells and multipotent progenitors.
Jaeyop LeeYu Jerry ZhouWenji MaWanwei ZhangArafat AljoufiThomas LuhKimberly LuceroDeguang LiangMatthew ThomsenGovind BhagatYufeng ShenKang LiuPublished in: Nature immunology (2017)
The origin and specification of human dendritic cells (DCs) have not been investigated at the clonal level. Through the use of clonal assays, combined with statistical computation, to quantify the yield of granulocytes, monocytes, lymphocytes and three subsets of DCs from single human CD34+ progenitor cells, we found that specification to the DC lineage occurred in parallel with specification of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to the myeloid and lymphoid lineages. This started as a lineage bias defined by specific transcriptional programs that correlated with the combinatorial 'dose' of the transcription factors IRF8 and PU.1, which was transmitted to most progeny cells and was reinforced by upregulation of IRF8 expression driven by the hematopoietic cytokine FLT3L during cell division. We propose a model in which specification to the DC lineage is driven by parallel and inheritable transcriptional programs in HSCs and is reinforced over cell division by recursive interactions between transcriptional programs and extrinsic signals.
Keyphrases
- dendritic cells
- cell fate
- stem cells
- single cell
- endothelial cells
- transcription factor
- immune response
- regulatory t cells
- poor prognosis
- bone marrow
- cell therapy
- public health
- gene expression
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- pluripotent stem cells
- acute myeloid leukemia
- induced apoptosis
- signaling pathway
- high throughput
- cell proliferation
- heat shock
- oxidative stress
- high resolution
- atomic force microscopy