Embryonic lineage tracing with Procr-CreER marks balanced hematopoietic stem cell fate during entire mouse lifespan.

J Genet Genomics

State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing, 100071, China; State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100071, China; Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health-Guangdong Laboratory (GRMH-GDL); Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of Ministry of Education, Institute of Hematology, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China; State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Tianjin, 300020, China. Electronic address:

Published: October 2019

The functional heterogeneity of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) has been comprehensively investigated by single-cell transplantation assay. However, the heterogeneity regarding their physiological contribution remains an open question, especially for those with life-long hematopoietic fate of rigorous self-renewing and balanced differentiation capacities. In this study, we revealed that Procr expression was detected principally in phenotypical vascular endothelium co-expressing Dll4 and CD44 in the mid-gestation mouse embryos, and could enrich all the HSCs of the embryonic day 11.5 (E11.5) aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region. We then used a temporally restricted genetic tracing strategy to irreversibly label the Procr-expressing cells at E9.5. Interestingly, most labeled mature HSCs in multiple sites (such as AGM) around E11.5 were functionally categorized as lymphomyeloid-balanced HSCs assessed by direct transplantation. Furthermore, the labeled cells contributed to an average of 7.8% of immunophenotypically defined HSCs in E14.5 fetal liver (FL) and 6.9% of leukocytes in peripheral blood (PB) during one-year follow-up. Surprisingly, in aged mice of 24 months, the embryonically tagged cells displayed constant contribution to leukocytes with no bias to myeloid or lymphoid lineages. Altogether, we demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of a subtype of physiologically long-lived balanced HSCs as hypothesized, whose precise embryonic origin and molecular identity await further characterization.

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