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The regulation of normal and neoplastic hematopoiesis is dependent on microenvironmental cells.
Advances in Biological Regulation 2018 August
Each day the adult human produces 4 × 1011 red blood cells, 1 × 1011 white blood cells and 1 × 1011 platelets, levels of production which can increase 10-20 fold in times of heightened demand. Hematopoiesis, or the formation of the ten different types of blood and marrow cells, is a complex process involving hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), cytokine growth factors and cell surface adhesion molecules, and both specific and ubiquitous transcription factors. The marrow micro-environmental niche is defined as the site at which HSCs reside and are nurtured, receiving the signals that lead to their survival, replication and/or differentiation. Using microscopic, biochemical and molecular methods many different cells and the signals responsible for niche function have been identified. Early studies suggested two distinct anatomical sites for the niche, perivascular and periosteal, but the preponderance of evidence now favors the former. Within the "vascular niche" much evidence exists for important contributions by vascular endothelial cells (ECs), CXCL12-abundant reticular (CAR) cells and mesenchymal stromal cells, through their elaboration of chemokines, cytokines and cell surface adhesion molecules. In a series of studies we have found, and will present the evidence that megakaryocytes (MKs), the precursors of blood platelets, must be added to this list. In addition to normal blood cell development, numerous studies have implicated the perivascular niche as contributing to the pathogenesis of a variety of hematological malignancies. Our laboratory focuses on the Ph (Crane et al., 2017)-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF). These diseases are characterized by clonal expansion of HSCs and one or more mature blood cell types, hypermetabolism, a propensity to disorders of hemostasis (thrombosis > bleeding) and in some, evolution to acute leukemia. While a variety of therapies can control the abnormal expansion of the progeny of the malignant HSC, the only curative therapy is myeloablation with conditioning therapy or immunological means, followed by allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT), a procedure that is often inadequate due to relapse of the malignant clone. While the three disorders were postulated by Dameshek in the 1950s to be related to one another, proof came in 2005 when an acquired mutation in the signaling kinase Janus kinase 2 (Jak2V617 F) was identified in virtually all patients with PV, and ∼50% of patients with ET and PMF. Since that time a number of other mutations have been identified that account for the "Jak2V617 F negative" MPNs, including the thrombopoietin receptor, c-MPL, other mutations of Jak2, calreticulin and a variety of epigenetic modifier genes (e.g. TET2). Using a cell-specific Cre recombinase and SCT techniques we can introduce Jak2V617 F into murine megakaryocytes and platelets, hematopoietic stem cells, and endothelial cells, alone or in combination, in order to probe the role of the mutant kinase in various cells on several aspects of the MPNs. Using these tools we have found that the expression of Jak2V617 F in HSCs and ECs drives a MPN characterized by neutrophilia, thrombocytosis and splenomegaly, eventually evolving into myelosclerosis. Somewhat surprisingly, we found that Jak2V617 F-bearing ECs were required for many features of the MPN, such as enhancing the growth of Jak2V617 F-bearing HSCs over that of wild type HSCs, its characteristic radioresistance, and a hemostatic defect. Altogether, our studies suggest that the malignant vascular niche is a critical element in the pathogenesis of MPNs, and a more thorough understanding of the molecular basis for these findings could lead to improved treatment for patients with these disorders.
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