Luis, TC;
Luc, S;
Mizukami, T;
Boukarabila, H;
Thongjuea, S;
Woll, PS;
Azzoni, E;
... Jacobsen, SEW; + view all
(2016)
Initial seeding of the embryonic thymus by immune-restricted lympho-myeloid progenitors.
Nature Immunology
, 17
(12)
pp. 1424-1435.
10.1038/ni.3576.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Initial seeding of the embryonic thymus by immune-restricted lympho-myeloid progenitors |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ni.3576 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3576 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053618 |
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