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Niche derived netrin-1 regulates hematopoietic stem cell dormancy via its receptor neogenin-1

  • Simon Renders
  • , Arthur Flohr Svendsen
  • , Jasper Panten
  • , Nicolas Rama
  • , Maria Maryanovich
  • , Pia Sommerkamp
  • , Luisa Ladel
  • , Anna Rita Redavid
  • , Benjamin Gibert
  • , Seka Lazare
  • , Benjamin Ducarouge
  • , Katharina Schönberger
  • , Andreas Narr
  • , Manon Tourbez
  • , Bertien Dethmers-Ausema
  • , Erik Zwart
  • , Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt
  • , Dachuan Zhang
  • , Claudia Korn
  • , Petra Zeisberger
  • Adriana Przybylla, Markus Sohn, Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Mathias Heikenwälder, Maik Brune, Daniel Klimmeck, Leonid Bystrykh, Paul S. Frenette, Patrick Mehlen, Gerald de Haan, Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, Andreas Trumpp

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Abstract

Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are characterized by their self-renewal potential associated to dormancy. Here we identify the cell surface receptor neogenin-1 as specifically expressed in dormant HSCs. Loss of neogenin-1 initially leads to increased HSC expansion but subsequently to loss of self-renewal and premature exhaustion in vivo. Its ligand netrin-1 induces Egr1 expression and maintains quiescence and function of cultured HSCs in a Neo1 dependent manner. Produced by arteriolar endothelial and periarteriolar stromal cells, conditional netrin-1 deletion in the bone marrow niche reduces HSC numbers, quiescence and self-renewal, while overexpression increases quiescence in vivo. Ageing associated bone marrow remodelling leads to the decline of netrin-1 expression in niches and a compensatory but reversible upregulation of neogenin-1 on HSCs. Our study suggests that niche produced netrin-1 preserves HSC quiescence and self-renewal via neogenin-1 function. Decline of netrin-1 production during ageing leads to the gradual decrease of Neo1 mediated HSC self-renewal.

Original languageEnglish
Article number608
JournalNature Communications
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes

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