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Blood, 15 November 2007, Vol. 110, No. 10, pp. 3601-3609. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on August 3, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2007-04-086827. This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supplemental Tables All Versions of this Article: blood-2007-04-086827v1 110/10/3601    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Wang, C. Articles by Xiong, J.-W. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Wang, C. Articles by Xiong, J.-W. Related Collections Free Research Articles Hematopoiesis and Stem Cells Hemostasis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Related Article in Blood Online Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Table of Contents  |  Next Article  HEMATOPOIESIS Mouse lysocardiolipin acyltransferase controls the development of hematopoietic and endothelial lineages during in vitro embryonic stem-cell differentiation Chengyan Wang1, Patrick W. Faloon3, Zhijia Tan1, Yaxin Lv1, Pengbo Zhang1, Yu Ge1, Hongkui Deng1, and Jing-Wei Xiong2,3 1 Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China; and 2 Nephrology Division and 3 Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA The blast colony-forming cell (BL-CFC) was identified as an equivalent to the hemangioblast during in vitro embryonic stem (ES) cell differentiation. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of the BL-CFC remain largely unknown. Here we report the isolation of mouse lysocardiolipin acyltransferase (Lycat) based on homology to zebrafish lycat, a candidate gene for the cloche locus. Mouse Lycat is expressed in hematopoietic organs and is enriched in the Lin–C-Kit+Sca-1+ hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow and in the Flk1+/hCD4+(Scl+) hemangioblast population in embryoid bodies. The forced Lycat transgene leads to increased messenger RNA expression of hematopoietic and endothelial genes as well as increased blast colonies and their progenies, endothelial and hematopoietic lineages. The Lycat small interfering RNA transgene leads to a decrease expression of hematopoietic and endothelial genes. An unbiased genomewide microarray analysis further substantiates that the forced Lycat transgene specifically up-regulates a set of genes related to hemangioblasts and hematopoietic and endothelial lineages. Therefore, mouse Lycat plays an important role in the early specification of hematopoietic and endothelial cells, probably acting at the level of the hemangioblast. CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this? Related Article in Blood Online: Lycat: new targets in hemangioblast differentiation? Burcin Özüyaman and Malte Kelm Blood 2007 110: 3489. [Full Text] [PDF] This article has been cited by other articles: J.-W. Xiong, Q. Yu, J. Zhang, and J. D. Mably An Acyltransferase Controls the Generation of Hematopoietic and Endothelial Lineages in Zebrafish Circ. Res., May 9, 2008; 102(9): 1057 - 1064. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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