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Blood, 1 June 2006, Vol. 107, No. 11, pp. 4308-4316.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on February 9, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-06-2216.
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Submitted June 3, 2005
Accepted January 22, 2006
C/EBP determines hematopoietic cell fate in multipotential progenitor cells by inhibiting erythroid differentiation and inducing myeloid differentiation
Hyung C Suh, John Gooya, Katie Renn, Alan D Friedman, Peter F Johnson, and Jonathan R Keller*
Basic Research Program, SAIC-Inc., Center For Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
Division of Pediatric Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Laboratory of Protein Dynamics and Signaling, Center For Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
* Corresponding author; email: kellerj{at}ncifcrf.gov.
C/EBP is an essential transcription factor required for myeloid differentiation. While C/EBP can act as a cell fate switch to promote granulocyte differentiation in bipotential granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (GMP), its role in regulating cell fate decisions in more primitive progenitors is not known. We found increased numbers of erythroid progenitors and erythroid cells in C/EBP -/- fetal liver (FL). Also, enforced expression of C/EBP in hematopoietic stem cells resulted in a loss of erythroid progenitors and an increase in myeloid cells by inhibition of erythroid development and inducing myeloid differentiation. Conditional expression of C/EBP in MEL cells induced myeloid-specific genes, while inhibiting erythroid-specific gene expression, including erythropoietin receptor (EpoR), which suggests a novel mechanism to determine hematopoietic cell fate. Thus, C/EBP functions in hematopoietic cell fate decisions by the dual actions of inhibiting erythroid and inducing myeloid gene expression in multipotential progenitors.

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