| First Author | Yano M | Year | 1997 |
| Journal | Blood | Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 12 | Pages | 4317-26 |
| PubMed ID | 9192754 | Mgi Jnum | J:40905 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:892624 | Doi | 10.1182/blood.v89.12.4317 |
| Citation | Yano M, et al. (1997) Expression and function of murine receptor tyrosine kinases, TIE and TEK, in hematopoietic stem cells. Blood 89(12):4317-26 |
| abstractText | Two highly related receptor tyrosine kinases, TIE and TEK, comprise a family of endothelial cell-specific kinase. We established monoclonal antibodies against them and performed detailed analyses on their expression and function in murine hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). TIE and TEK were expressed on 23.7% and 33.3% of lineage marker-negative, c-Kit+ and Sca-1+ (Lin- c-Kit+ Sca-1+) HSCs that contain the majority of day-12 colony-forming units-spleen (CFU-S) and long-term reconstituting cells, but not committed progenitor cells. Lin- c-Kit+ Sca-1+ cells were further divided by the expression of TIE and TEK. TIE+ and TEK+ HSCs as well as each negative counterpart contained high proliferative potential colony-forming cells and differentiated into lymphoid and myeloid progenies both in vitro and in vivo. However, day-12 CFU-S were enriched in TIE+ and TEK+ HSCs. Our findings define TIE and TEK as novel stem cell marker antigens that segregate day-12 CFU-S, and provide evidence of novel signaling pathways that are involved in the functional regulation of HSCs at a specific stage of differentiation, particularly of day-12 CFU-S. |
