Project description:Various blood lineages, including lymphoid cells and myeloid cells, are produced from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the bone marrow. However, HSCs aren’t developed in the bone marrow during mouse embryogenesis. The first HSCs are found in the aorta-gonad-mesonephros region, the yolk sac, and the fetal liver, although the number is very few at embryonic day (E) 11. Most HSCs are observed in the fetal liver at E12. To understand the specific genes of nascent HSCs, we performed single-cell RNA-seq analysis of KIT-expressing cells sorted from the fetal liver at E12. We identified the nascent HSC population and found some feature genes in those cells. Therefore, our data will help us understand the nascent HSCs.
Project description:We used scRNAseq to profile CD71/CD24low fetal liver erythroid progenitor cells isolated by 2 distinct methods: FACS and immunomagnetic isolation. Cells from both isolation methods were hashtagged using Biolegend mouse hashtag antibodies and library prepped together on the 10X chromium platform with the 3'RNA v3 kit. We also performed CITE-seq to profile proteogenomic expression of CD117 and CD71 on lineage-depleted mouse fetal liver erythroid progenitor cells. CITE-seq was performed through a separate library prep on the 10X chromium platform with the 3'RNAv3 kit.
Project description:The serine threonine kinase Stk40 has been shown to involve in mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation, pulmonary maturation and adipocyte differentiation. Here we report that targeted deletion of Stk40 leads to fetal liver hypoplasia and anemia in the mouse embryos. The reduction of erythrocytes in the fetal liver is accompanied by increased apoptosis and compromised erythroid maturation. Stk40-/- fetal liver cells have significantly reduced colony forming units (CFUs) capable of erythroid differentiation, including burst forming unit-erythroid (BFU-E), colony forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E), and CFU-granulocyte, erythrocyte, megakaryocyte and macrophage (CFU-GEMM), but not CFU-granulocyte/macrophages (CFU-GM). Purified Stk40-/- megakaryocyte-erythrocyte progenitors (MEPs) produced substantially fewer CFU-E colonies compared to control cells. Moreover, Stk40-/- fetal liver erythroblasts failed to form normal erythroblastic islands in association with wild type or Stk40-/- macrophages, indicating an intrinsic defect of Stk40-/- erythroblasts. Furthermore, the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell pool is reduced in Stk40-/- fetal livers but still retains the multi-lineage reconstitution capacity. Finally, analysis of microarray data of E14.5 fetal liver cells suggests a potential role of aberrantly activated TNF-α signaling in Stk40 depletion induced dyserythropoiesis with a concomitant increase in cleaved Caspase-3 and decrease in Gata1 proteins. Altogether, the identification of Stk40 as a regulator for fetal erythroid differentiation, maturation and survival provides new clues to the molecular regulation of erythropoiesis and related diseases.
Project description:The isolation of hepatic stem cells from the adult liver has not yet been achieved due to the lack of specific surface markers. To identify new surface markers for hepatic stem cells, we analyzed differences in the gene expression profile of fetal liver epithelial cells (FLEC) and adult liver by microarray technology. In contrast to previous microarray studies on fetal liver, we purified FLEC by immunomagnetic selection for E-cadherin to more than 90% to analyze their specific expression profile. Keywords: cell type comparison
Project description:Hepatoblasts emerging at E8.5 from the foregut endoderm proliferate vigorously and differentiate to hepatocytes and biliary epithelial cells. To find genes important for hepatocyte differentiation during development, we compared gene expression profiles of hepatoblasts/immature hepatocytes at E12.5 and E17.5. As Dlk, also known as Pref-1, is expressed in hepatoblasts/immature hepatocytes, we performed a microarray analysis of the Dlk+ cells isolated from livers at E12.5 and E17.5. Keywords: fetal liver cells comparing Mouse hepatoblasts were isolated from E12.5 and E17.5 fetal liver using anti-mouse Dlk monoclonal antibody (mAb) according to a previous report and dissolved in Trizol reagent. The cDNA samples synthesized from total RNA were used for a microarray analysis with the mouse GEM2 microarray. One array, no replicates.