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ArticleExperimental hematology2012

Deletion of the Scl +19 enhancer increases the blood stem cell compartment without affecting the formation of mature blood lineages.

Dominik Spensberger, Ekaterini Kotsopoulou, Rita Ferreira, Cyril Broccardo, Linda M Scott, Nasios Fourouclas, Katrin Ottersbach, Anthony R Green, Berthold Göttgens

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Article in Experimental hematology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dominik SpensbergerDepartment of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Ekaterini Kotsopoulou
Rita Ferreira
Cyril Broccardo
Linda M Scott
Nasios Fourouclas
Katrin Ottersbach
Anthony R Green
Berthold Göttgens
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 12765Medical Research Council G0800784Medical Research Council MC_PC_12009National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research G0900729/1Wellcome Trust 079249
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The stem cell leukemia (Scl)/Tal1 gene is essential for normal blood and endothelial development, and is expressed in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), progenitors, erythroid, megakaryocytic, and mast cells. The Scl +19 enhancer is active in HSCs and progenitor cells, megakaryocytes, and mast cells, but not mature erythroid cells. Here we demonstrate that in vivo deletion of the Scl +19 enhancer (Scl(Δ19/Δ19)) results in viable mice with normal Scl expression in mature hematopoietic lineages. By contrast, Scl expression is reduced in the stem/progenitor compartment and flow cytometry analysis revealed that the HSC and megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor populations are enlarged in Scl(Δ19/Δ19) mice. The increase in HSC numbers contributed to enhanced expansion in bone marrow transplantation assays, but did not affect multilineage repopulation or stress responses. These results affirm that the Scl +19 enhancer plays a key role in the development of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, but is not necessary for mature hematopoietic lineages. Moreover, active histone marks across the Scl locus were significantly reduced in Scl(Δ19/Δ19) fetal liver cells without major changes in steady-state messenger RNA levels, suggesting post-transcriptional compensation for loss of a regulatory element, a result that might be widely relevant given the frequent observation of mild phenotypes after deletion of regulatory elements.

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Base SequenceSequence DeletionAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression RegulationHematopoiesisHematopoietic Stem CellsMiceMice, Mutant StrainsProto-Oncogene ProteinsStress, PhysiologicalT-Cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Protein 1Basic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsProto-Oncogene ProteinsTal1 protein, mouseT-Cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Protein 1

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PMID22401818
PMCPMC3387379
OpenAlexW2146642186

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