PUBLICATION
WNT9A Is a Conserved Regulator of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Development
- Authors
- Richter, J., Stanley, E.G., Ng, E.S., Elefanty, A.G., Traver, D., Willert, K.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180201-2
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Genes 9(2): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Traver, David
- Keywords
- WNT9A, Wnt signaling, hematopoiesis, hematopoietic stem cells, human embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells
- MeSH Terms
- none
- PubMed
- 29382179 Full text @ Genes (Basel)
Citation
Richter, J., Stanley, E.G., Ng, E.S., Elefanty, A.G., Traver, D., Willert, K. (2018) WNT9A Is a Conserved Regulator of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Development. Genes. 9(2).
Abstract
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) differentiate into all cell types of the blood and can be used therapeutically to treat hematopoietic cancers and disorders. Despite decades of research, it is not yet possible to derive therapy-grade HSCs from pluripotent precursors. Analysis of HSC development in model organisms has identified some of the molecular cues that are necessary to instruct hematopoiesis in vivo, including Wnt9A, which is required during an early time window in zebrafish development. Although bona fide HSCs cannot be derived in vitro, it is possible to model human hematopoietic progenitor development by differentiating human pluripotent stem cells to hematopoietic cells. Herein, we modulate WNT9A expression during the in vitro differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to hematopoietic progenitor cells and demonstrate that WNT9A also regulates human hematopoietic progenitor cell development in vitro. Overexpression of WNT9A only impacts differentiation to CD34⁺/CD45⁺ cells during early time windows and does so in a dose-dependent manner. The cells that receive the Wnt signal-not the cells that secrete WNT9A-differentiate most efficiently to hematopoietic progenitors; this mimics the paracrine action of Wnt9a during in vivo hematopoiesis. Taken together, these data indicate that WNT9A is a conserved regulator of zebrafish and human hematopoietic development.
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