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ArticleScientific reports2021

Glutamine metabolism regulates endothelial to hematopoietic transition and hematopoietic lineage specification.

Leal Oburoglu, Els Mansell, Niels-Bjarne Woods

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Leal OburogluMolecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, BMC A12, 221 84, Lund, Sweden. leal.oburoglu@med.lu.se.
Els MansellMolecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, BMC A12, 221 84, Lund, Sweden.
Niels-Bjarne WoodsMolecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, BMC A12, 221 84, Lund, Sweden. niels-bjarne.woods@med.lu.se.
Lund University · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During hematopoietic development, definitive hematopoietic cells are derived from hemogenic endothelial (HE) cells through a process known as endothelial to hematopoietic transition (EHT). During EHT, transitioning cells proliferate and undergo progressive changes in gene expression culminating in the new cell identity with corresponding changes in function, phenotype and morphology. However, the metabolic pathways fueling this transition remain unclear. We show here that glutamine is a crucial regulator of EHT and a rate limiting metabolite in the hematopoietic differentiation of HE cells. Intriguingly, different hematopoietic lineages require distinct derivatives of glutamine. While both derivatives, α-ketoglutarate and nucleotides, are required for early erythroid differentiation of HE during glutamine deprivation, lymphoid differentiation relies on α-ketoglutarate alone. Furthermore, treatment of HE cells with α-ketoglutarate in glutamine-free conditions pushes their differentiation towards lymphoid lineages both in vitro and in vivo, following transplantation into NSG mice. Thus, we report an essential role for glutamine metabolism during EHT, regulating both the emergence and the specification of hematopoietic cells through its various derivatives.

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AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell LineageCell ProliferationCells, CulturedFemaleGlutamineHemangioblastsHematopoiesisHematopoietic Stem CellsHumansMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred NODMice, SCIDGlutamine

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PMID34475502
PMCPMC8413451
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