title: Early defect prethymic in bone marrow T cell progenitors in athymic nu/nu mice.
abstract: nu/nu mice fail to develop a thymus and mature T cells due to a defect in the whn gene encoding a transcription factor necessary for terminal epithelial cell differentiation. We investigated whether early T cell progenitor development in the nu/nu bone marrow is also defective. We demonstrated a maturation arrest of nu/nu marrow T cell progenitors associated with a lack of pTalpha gene expression and a failure to give rise to mature T cells in adoptive euthymic hosts. Wild-type hemopoietic stem cells rapidly matured into functional T cell progenitors in the marrow of euthymic or thymectomized but not nu/nu hosts. We show that defects in bone marrow prethymic T cell development can also contribute to T cell deficiency in nu/nu mice.
authors.affiliation: Department of. Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. sstrober@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Devavani
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chatterjea-Matthes
authors.forename: Marcos E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: García-Ojeda
authors.forename: Sussan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dejbakhsh-Jones
authors.forename: Libuse
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jerabek
authors.forename: Markus G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Manz
authors.forename: Irving L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Weissman
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strober
mesh_terms: D019264:Adoptive Transfer; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D018801:CD2 Antigens / Q000096:biosynthesis; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D019070:Cell Lineage / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D015536:Down-Regulation / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D015333:Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor / Q000235:genetics; D019673:Genes, T-Cell Receptor alpha; D005819:Genetic Markers; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008231:Lymphopenia / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D051379:Mice; D020297:Mice, Congenic; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D008819:Mice, Nude; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000637:transplantation; D018800:Thy-1 Antigens / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D015854:Up-Regulation / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D018801:CD2 Antigens; D005819:Genetic Markers; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta; D018800:Thy-1 Antigens; C090377:pre-T cell receptor alpha