Publication Date:
2010-06-11
Description:
Lymphocytes and neutrophils are rapidly depleted by systemic infection. Progenitor cells of the haematopoietic system, such as common myeloid progenitors and common lymphoid progenitors, increase the production of immune cells to restore and maintain homeostasis during chronic infection, but the contribution of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to this process is largely unknown. Here we show, using an in vivo mouse model of Mycobacterium avium infection, that an increased proportion of long-term repopulating HSCs proliferate during M. avium infection, and that this response requires interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) but not interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) signalling. Thus, the haematopoietic response to chronic bacterial infection involves the activation not only of intermediate blood progenitors but of long-term repopulating HSCs as well. IFN-gamma is sufficient to promote long-term repopulating HSC proliferation in vivo; furthermore, HSCs from IFN-gamma-deficient mice have a lower proliferative rate, indicating that baseline IFN-gamma tone regulates HSC activity. These findings implicate IFN-gamma both as a regulator of HSCs during homeostasis and under conditions of infectious stress. Our studies contribute to a deeper understanding of haematological responses in patients with chronic infections such as HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935898/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935898/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Baldridge, Megan T -- King, Katherine Y -- Boles, Nathan C -- Weksberg, David C -- Goodell, Margaret A -- K08 HL098898/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA126752/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA126752-030005/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK058192/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK058192-10/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 EB005173/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R01 EB005173-05/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL096360/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- T32 HL092332/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- T32 HL092332-07/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- U54 HL081007-05/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 10;465(7299):793-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09135.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20535209" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bone Marrow Transplantation
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Cell Count
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Cell Proliferation
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Chronic Disease
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Hematopoietic Stem Cells/*cytology/*immunology
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Homeostasis/*immunology/physiology
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Interferon-alpha
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Interferon-gamma/deficiency/*immunology/*metabolism
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Multipotent Stem Cells/cytology/immunology
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Mycobacterium avium/immunology
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Signal Transduction
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Tuberculosis/blood/*immunology/microbiology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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