The final stages of restriction to the T cell lineage occur in the thymus after the entry of thymus-seeding progenitors (TSPs). The identity and lineage potential of TSPs remains unclear. Because the first embryonic TSPs enter a non-vascularized thymic rudiment, we were able to directly image and establish the functional and molecular properties of embryonic thymopoiesis-initiating progenitors (T-IPs) before their entry into the thymus and activation of Notch signaling. T-IPs did not include multipotent stem cells or molecular evidence of T cell-restricted progenitors. Instead, single-cell molecular and functional analysis demonstrated that most fetal T-IPs expressed genes of and had the potential to develop into lymphoid as well as myeloid components of the immune system. Moreover, studies of embryos deficient in the transcriptional regulator RBPJ demonstrated that canonical Notch signaling was not involved in pre-thymic restriction to the T cell lineage or the migration of T-IPs.

Luis, T., Luc, S., Mizukami, T., Boukarabila, H., Thongjuea, S., Woll, P., et al. (2016). Initial seeding of the embryonic thymus by immune-restricted lympho-myeloid progenitors. NATURE IMMUNOLOGY, 17(12), 1424-1435 [10.1038/ni.3576].

Initial seeding of the embryonic thymus by immune-restricted lympho-myeloid progenitors

Azzoni, E
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2016

Abstract

The final stages of restriction to the T cell lineage occur in the thymus after the entry of thymus-seeding progenitors (TSPs). The identity and lineage potential of TSPs remains unclear. Because the first embryonic TSPs enter a non-vascularized thymic rudiment, we were able to directly image and establish the functional and molecular properties of embryonic thymopoiesis-initiating progenitors (T-IPs) before their entry into the thymus and activation of Notch signaling. T-IPs did not include multipotent stem cells or molecular evidence of T cell-restricted progenitors. Instead, single-cell molecular and functional analysis demonstrated that most fetal T-IPs expressed genes of and had the potential to develop into lymphoid as well as myeloid components of the immune system. Moreover, studies of embryos deficient in the transcriptional regulator RBPJ demonstrated that canonical Notch signaling was not involved in pre-thymic restriction to the T cell lineage or the migration of T-IPs.
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Animals; Cell Differentiation; Cell Lineage; Cell Movement; Cells, Cultured; Fetus; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; Immunoglobulin J Recombination Signal Sequence-Binding Protein; Lymphoid Progenitor Cells; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Mice, Transgenic; Myeloid Progenitor Cells; Receptors, Notch; Signal Transduction; T-Lymphocytes; Thymus Gland; Immunology
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Luis, T., Luc, S., Mizukami, T., Boukarabila, H., Thongjuea, S., Woll, P., et al. (2016). Initial seeding of the embryonic thymus by immune-restricted lympho-myeloid progenitors. NATURE IMMUNOLOGY, 17(12), 1424-1435 [10.1038/ni.3576].
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