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Specific Marking of hESCs-Derived Hematopoietic Lineage by WAS-Promoter Driven Lentiviral Vectors
Published:
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Author:
Pilar Muñoz et al.
by Pilar Muñoz, Miguel G. Toscano, Pedro J. Real, Karim Benabdellah, Marién Cobo, Clara Bueno, Verónica Ramos-Mejía, Pablo Menendez, Per Anderson, Francisco Martín
Genetic manipulation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is instrumental for tracing lineage commitment and to studying human development. Here we used hematopoietic-specific Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome gene (WAS)-promoter driven lentiviral vectors (LVs) to achieve highly specific gene expression in hESCs-derived hematopoietic cells. We first demonstrated that endogenous WAS gene was not expressed in undifferentiated hESCs but was evident in hemogenic progenitors (CD45-CD31+CD34+) and hematopoietic cells (CD45+). Accordingly, WAS-promoter driven LVs were unable to express the eGFP transgene in undifferentiated hESCs. eGFP+ cells only appeared after embryoid body (EB) hematopoietic differentiation. The phenotypic analysis of the eGFP+ cells showed marking of different subpopulations at different days of differentiation. At days 10–15, AWE LVs tag hemogenic and hematopoietic progenitors cells (CD45-CD31+CD34dim and CD45+CD31+CD34dim) emerging from hESCs and at day 22 its expression became restricted to mature hematopoietic cells (CD45+CD33+). Surprisingly, at day 10 of differentiation, the AWE vector also marked CD45-CD31low/-CD34- cells, a population that disappeared at later stages of differentiation. We showed that the eGFP+CD45-CD31+ population generate 5 times more CD45+ cells than the eGFP-CD45-CD31+ indicating that the AWE vector was identifying a subpopulation inside the CD45-CD31+ cells with higher hemogenic capacity. We also showed generation of CD45+ cells from the eGFP+CD45-CD31low/-CD34- population but not from the eGFP-CD45-CD31low/-CD34- cells. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of a gene transfer vector which specifically labels hemogenic progenitors and hematopoietic cells emerging from hESCs. We propose the use of WAS-promoter driven LVs as a novel tool to studying human hematopoietic development.
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