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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2010

An essential developmental checkpoint for production of the T cell lineage.

Tomokatsu Ikawa, Satoshi Hirose, Kyoko Masuda, Kiyokazu Kakugawa, Rumi Satoh, Asako Shibano-Satoh, Ryo Kominami, Yoshimoto Katsura, Hiroshi Kawamoto

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 179 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Tomokatsu IkawaLaboratory for Lymphocyte Development, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
Satoshi Hirose
Kyoko Masuda
Kiyokazu Kakugawa
Rumi Satoh
Asako Shibano-Satoh
Ryo Kominami
Yoshimoto Katsura
Hiroshi Kawamoto

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In early T cell development, progenitors retaining the potential to generate myeloid and natural killer lineages are eventually determined to a specific T cell lineage. The molecular mechanisms that drive this determination step remain unclarified. We show that, when murine hematopoietic progenitors were cultured on immobilized Notch ligand DLL4 protein in the presence of a cocktail of cytokines including interleukin-7, progenitors developing toward T cells were arrested and the arrested cells entered a self-renewal cycle, maintaining non-T lineage potentials. Reduced concentrations of interleukin-7 promoted T cell lineage determination. A similar arrest and self-renewal of progenitors were observed in thymocytes of mice deficient in the transcription factor Bcl11b. Our study thus identifies the earliest checkpoint during T cell development and shows that it is Bcl11b-dependent.

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Cell LineageLymphopoiesisAnimalsCells, CulturedCoculture TechniquesGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen ReceptorHematopoietic Stem CellsInterleukin-7LiverMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicPrecursor Cells, T-LymphoidRepressor ProteinsSignal TransductionBcl11b protein, mouseInterleukin-7Repressor ProteinsTumor Suppressor Proteins

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