p21/Zbtb18 repress the expression of cKit to regulate the self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells.

Nini WANG; Shangda YANG; Yu LI; Fanglin GOU; Yanling LV; Xiangnan ZHAO; Yifei WANG; Chang XU; Bin ZHOU; Fang DONG; Zhenyu JU; Tao CHENG; Hui CHENG

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p21/Zbtb18 repress the expression of cKit to regulate the self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells.

Author: Nini WANG ¹ ; Shangda YANG ¹ ; Yu LI ¹ ; Fanglin GOU ² ; Yanling LV ¹ ; Xiangnan ZHAO ¹ ; Yifei WANG ¹ ; Chang XU ¹ ; Bin ZHOU ¹ ; Fang DONG ¹ ; Zhenyu JU ³ ; Tao CHENG ¹ ; Hui CHENG ¹
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1. State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin 300020, China.
2. The Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Immune Microenvironment and Disease (Ministry of Education), Department of Cell Biology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300270, China.
3. Key Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine of Ministry of Education, Institute of Aging and Regenerative Medicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Zbtb18; cKit; hematopoietic stem cells; p21; self-renewal
MeSH: Animals; Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology*; Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21/genetics*; Mice; Cell Self Renewal; Repressor Proteins/genetics*; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Mice, Knockout; Humans; Gene Expression Regulation
From: Protein & Cell 2024;15(11):840-857
CountryChina
Language:English
Abstract: The maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is a complex process involving numerous cell-extrinsic and -intrinsic regulators. The first member of the cyclin-dependent kinase family of inhibitors to be identified, p21, has been reported to perform a wide range of critical biological functions, including cell cycle regulation, transcription, differentiation, and so on. Given the previous inconsistent results regarding the functions of p21 in HSCs in a p21-knockout mouse model, we employed p21-tdTomato (tdT) mice to further elucidate its role in HSCs during homeostasis. The results showed that p21-tdT+ HSCs exhibited increased self-renewal capacity compared to p21-tdT- HSCs. Zbtb18, a transcriptional repressor, was upregulated in p21-tdT+ HSCs, and its knockdown significantly impaired the reconstitution capability of HSCs. Furthermore, p21 interacted with ZBTB18 to co-repress the expression of cKit in HSCs and thus regulated the self-renewal of HSCs. Our data provide novel insights into the physiological role and mechanisms of p21 in HSCs during homeostasis independent of its conventional role as a cell cycle inhibitor.