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Single-Cell Analysis Identifies Distinct Stages of Human Endothelial-to-Hematopoietic Transition

Guibentif, C; Ronn, RE; Boiers, C; Lang, S; Saxena, S; Soneji, S; Enver, T; ... Woods, N-B; + view all (2017) Single-Cell Analysis Identifies Distinct Stages of Human Endothelial-to-Hematopoietic Transition. Cell Reports , 19 (1) pp. 10-19. 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.023. Green open access

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Abstract

During development, hematopoietic cells originate from endothelium in a process known as endothelial-to-hematopoietic transition (EHT). To study human EHT, we coupled flow cytometry and single-cell transcriptional analyses of human pluripotent stem cell-derived CD34+ cells. The resulting transcriptional hierarchy showed a continuum of endothelial and hematopoietic signatures. At the interface of these two signatures, a unique group of cells displayed both an endothelial signature and high levels of key hematopoietic stem cell-associated genes. This interphase group was validated via sort and subculture as an immediate precursor to hematopoietic cells. Differential expression analyses further divided this population into subgroups, which, upon subculture, showed distinct hematopoietic lineage differentiation potentials. We therefore propose that immediate precursors to hematopoietic cells already have their hematopoietic lineage restrictions defined prior to complete downregulation of the endothelial signature. These findings increase our understanding of the processes of de novo hematopoietic cell generation in the human developmental context.

Type: Article
Title: Single-Cell Analysis Identifies Distinct Stages of Human Endothelial-to-Hematopoietic Transition
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.023
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.023
Language: English
Additional information: © 2017 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Cell Biology, Pluripotent Stem-Cells, Genome-Wide Analysis, Differentiation Cultures, Aortic Endothelium, Transcriptional Regulators, Haemogenic Endothelium, Hemogenic Endothelium, Vascular Endothelium, Human Embryo, Agm Region
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 Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Cancer Bio
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1553522
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