title: The transcription factor repertoire of Flt3+ hematopoietic stem cells.
abstract: Hematopoietic stem cells maintain the development of all mature blood cells throughout life due to their sustained self-renewal capacity and multilineage differentiation potential. During development into specific cell lineages, the options of stem cells and multipotent progenitor cells become increasingly restricted concomitant with a successive decline in self-renewal potential. Here we describe an Flt3+CD11b+ multipotent progenitor that can be amplified in vitro with a specific combination of cytokines to yield homogeneous populations in high cell numbers. By employing gene expression profiling with DNA microarrays, we studied the transcription factor repertoire of Flt3+CD11b+ progenitors and related it to the transcription factor repertoire of hematopoietic stem cells and embryonic stem cells. We report here on overlapping and nonoverlapping expression patterns of transcription factors in these cells and thus provide novel insights into the dynamic networks of transcriptional regulators in embryonic and adult stem cells. Additionally, the results obtained open the perspective for elucidating lineage and 'stemness' determinants in hematopoiesis.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hieronymus
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ruau
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ober-Blöbaum
authors.forename: Jea-Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Baek
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rolletschek
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rose-John
authors.forename: Anna M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Wobus
authors.forename: Albrecht M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zenke
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D039481:CD11b Antigen / Q000378:metabolism; D002460:Cell Line; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental / Q000187:drug effects; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010641:Phenotype; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D051941:fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D039481:CD11b Antigen; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C497971:Flt3 protein, mouse; D051941:fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3