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ArticleNature immunology2012

The earliest thymic T cell progenitors sustain B cell and myeloid lineage potential.

Sidinh Luc, Tiago C Luis, Hanane Boukarabila, Iain C Macaulay, Natalija Buza-Vidas, Tiphaine Bouriez-Jones, Michael Lutteropp, Petter S Woll, Stephen J Loughran, Adam J Mead and 20 more

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Article in Nature immunology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

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30 authors.

Sidinh LucHaematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratory, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Tiago C Luis
Hanane Boukarabila
Iain C Macaulay
Natalija Buza-Vidas
Tiphaine Bouriez-Jones
Michael Lutteropp
Petter S Woll
Stephen J Loughran
Adam J Mead
Anne Hultquist
John Brown
Takuo Mizukami
Sahoko Matsuoka
Helen Ferry
Kristina Anderson
Sara Duarte
Deborah Atkinson
Shamit Soneji
Aniela Domanski
Alison Farley
Alejandra Sanjuan-Pla
Cintia Carella
Roger Patient
Marella de Bruijn
Tariq Enver
Claus Nerlov
Clare Blackburn
Isabelle Godin
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen

Funding

Medical Research Council G0501838Medical Research Council G0801073Medical Research Council G0801073(87511)Medical Research Council G84/6443Medical Research Council H4RPLK0Medical Research Council MC_U137970202Medical Research Council MC_UU_12009/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The stepwise commitment from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow to T lymphocyte-restricted progenitors in the thymus represents a paradigm for understanding the requirement for distinct extrinsic cues during different stages of lineage restriction from multipotent to lineage-restricted progenitors. However, the commitment stage at which progenitors migrate from the bone marrow to the thymus remains unclear. Here we provide functional and molecular evidence at the single-cell level that the earliest progenitors in the neonatal thymus had combined granulocyte-monocyte, T lymphocyte and B lymphocyte lineage potential but not megakaryocyte-erythroid lineage potential. These potentials were identical to those of candidate thymus-seeding progenitors in the bone marrow, which were closely related at the molecular level. Our findings establish the distinct lineage-restriction stage at which the T cell lineage-commitment process transits from the bone marrow to the remote thymus.

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AnimalsB-LymphocytesCell LineageCell SeparationFlow CytometryHematopoietic Stem CellsLymphoid Progenitor CellsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicMyeloid CellsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPrecursor Cells, B-LymphoidReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionThymus GlandT-Lymphocytes

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PMID22344248
PMCPMC3378629

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