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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2013

The nucleotide sugar UDP-glucose mobilizes long-term repopulating primitive hematopoietic cells.

Sungho Kook, Joonseok Cho, Sean Bong Lee, Byeong-Chel Lee

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. P2YActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2025
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  10. Role of UDP-Sugar Receptor P2YInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  14. UDP-sugars activate P2YVascular pharmacology · 2018
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  15. Empowering human cardiac progenitor cells by P2YThe Journal of physiology · 2017
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  17. Current Developments in Mobilization of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells and Their Interaction with Niches in Bone Marrow.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2017
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  18. New agents in HSC mobilization.International journal of hematology · 2017
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  20. Osteoclasts: more than 'bone eaters'.Trends in molecular medicine · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sungho KookUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Joonseok Cho
Sean Bong Lee
Byeong-Chel Lee

Funding

VECTOR CORE FACILITYP30CA047904 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI JOHN C. BYRD · 1988 to 2026
$158.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA047904NCI NIH HHS P30CA047904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hematopoietic stem progenitor cells (HSPCs) are present in very small numbers in the circulating blood in steady-state conditions. In response to stress or injury, HSPCs are primed to migrate out of their niche to peripheral blood. Mobilized HSPCs are now commonly used as stem cell sources due to faster engraftment and reduced risk of posttransplant infection. In this study, we demonstrated that a nucleotide sugar, UDP-glucose, which is released into extracellular fluids in response to stress, mediates HSPC mobilization. UDP-glucose-mobilized cells possessed the capacity to achieve long-term repopulation in lethally irradiated animals and the ability to differentiate into multi-lineage blood cells. Compared with G-CSF-mobilized cells, UDP-glucose-mobilized cells preferentially supported long-term repopulation and exhibited lymphoid-biased differentiation, suggesting that UDP-glucose triggers the mobilization of functionally distinct subsets of HSPCs. Furthermore, co-administration of UDP-glucose and G-CSF led to greater HSPC mobilization than G-CSF alone. Administration of the antioxidant agent NAC significantly reduced UDP-glucose-induced mobilization, coinciding with a reduction in RANKL and osteoclastogenesis. These findings provide direct evidence demonstrating a potential role for UDP-glucose in HSPC mobilization and may provide an attractive strategy to improve the yield of stem cells in poor-mobilizing allogeneic or autologous donors.

Indexed as

Hematopoietic Stem Cell MobilizationAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationCells, CulturedChemotaxisGranulocyte Colony-Stimulating FactorHematopoietic Stem CellsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMitochondriaOsteoclastsSuperoxidesUridine Diphosphate GlucoseGranulocyte Colony-Stimulating FactorSuperoxidesUridine Diphosphate Glucose

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PMID23863713
PMCPMC3726149

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