Notch1 and IL-7 receptor interplay maintains proliferation of human thymic progenitors while suppressing non-T cell fates.

NOTCH1 AND IL-7 RECEPTOR INTERPLAY MAINTAINS PROLIFERATION OF HUMAN THYMIC PROGENITORS WHILE SUPPRESSING NON-T CELL FATES Running title: Notch1 and IL-7R in expansion of intrathymic progenitors

CSL–MAML-dependent Notch1 signaling controls T lineage–specific IL-7Rα gene expression in early human thymopoiesis and leukemia

Notch1 activation is essential for T-lineage specification of lymphomyeloid progenitors seeding the thymus. Progression along the T cell lineage further requires cooperative signaling provided by the interleukin 7 receptor (IL-7R), but the molecular mechanisms responsible for the dynamic and lineage-specific regulation of IL-7R during thymopoiesis are unknown. We show that active Notch1 binds t...

Active form of Notch members can enforce T lymphopoiesis on lymphoid progenitors in the monolayer culture specific for B cell development.

The in vitro induction of T lymphopoiesis needs the precise stereoscopic structure of thymus tissues as seen in fetal thymus organ culture. In this study, we demonstrated for the first time that the introduction of the intracellular region of Notch1 can induce T cells expressing TCR without any thymic environment. In the coculture on the monolayer of OP-9, which was originally known to support ...

Expansion of Non-Enriched Cord Blood Stem/Progenitor Cells CD34+ CD38- Using Liver Cells

Many investigators have used xenogeneic, especially murine stromal cells and fetal calf serum to maintain and expand human stem cells. The proliferation and expansion of human hematopoietic stem cells in ex vivo culture were examined with the goal of generating a suitable protocol for expanding hematopoietic stem cells for patient transplantation. Using primary fetal liver cells, we established...

Investigating the inhibitory effect of miR-34a, miR-449a, miR-1827, and miR-106b on target genes including NOTCH1, c-Myc, and CCND1 in human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia clinical samples and cell line

Objective(s): microRNAs are small non-coding molecules that regulate gene expression in various biological processes. T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a malignancy accompanied with genetic aberrations and accounts for 20% of children’s and adult’s ALL. Notch signaling pathway dysregulation occurs in 60% of T-ALL cases. In the present study, we aimed to de...