title: Unexpectedly efficient homing capacity of purified murine hematopoietic stem cells.
abstract: Single-cell transplantation analysis revealed that the cells that had the strongest dye efflux activity ("Tip"-SP cells) and had the phenotype CD34- c-Kit+ Sca-1+ Lin- (CD34- KSL cells) exhibited very strong proliferation and multilineage differentiation capacity. Ninety-six percent of the lethally irradiated mice that received a single "Tip"-SP CD34- KSL cell showed significant donor cell engraftment for long term. These findings support the hypothesis that "Tip"-SP CD34- KSL cells represent the most primitive hematopoietic stem cells that are capable of migrating into the primary site and surviving and/or proliferating with nearly absolute efficiency. This led us to propose high marrow-seeding efficiency as a specific characteristic of primitive HSCs, in addition to their self-renewal and multipotent capacity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, 160-8582, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuzaki
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kinjo
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Mulligan
authors.forename: Hideyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okano
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018952:Antigens, CD34; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D002465:Cell Movement; D002469:Cell Separation / Q000379:methods; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006085:Graft Survival; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D010641:Phenotype; D013194:Staining and Labeling
chemical_list: D018952:Antigens, CD34; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes