The bHLH gene Hes1 is essential for expansion of early T cell precursors

AUTOR(ES)

Tomita, Koichi

FONTE

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

RESUMO

Mice mutant for the bHLH gene Hes1, which is known to keep cells in a proliferative state, mostly lack thymus. Transfer of Hes1-null fetal liver cells into RAG2-null host mice normally reconstitutes B cells but fails to generate mature T cells in the thymus. In the reconstituted thymus, T cell differentiation is arrested at the CD4−CD8− double negative (DN) stage. Both the initial T cell receptor (TCR)-independent and the subsequent TCR-dependent selective expansion during the DN stage are severely affected. Thus, Hes1 is essential for the earliest thymocyte expansion in a cell-autonomous manner.

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