Cell Reports ( IF 7.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108320 Amélie Montel-Hagen 1 , Victoria Sun 2 , David Casero 1 , Steven Tsai 3 , Alexandre Zampieri 1 , Nicholas Jackson 1 , Suwen Li 4 , Shawn Lopez 1 , Yuhua Zhu 1 , Brent Chick 1 , Chongbin He 1 , Stéphanie C de Barros 1 , Christopher S Seet 5 , Gay M Crooks 6
We report a serum-free, 3D murine artificial thymic organoid (M-ATO) system that mimics normal murine thymopoiesis with the production of all T cell stages, from early thymic progenitors to functional single-positive (CD8SP and CD4SP) TCRαβ and TCRγδ cells. RNA sequencing aligns M-ATO-derived populations with phenotypically identical primary thymocytes. M-ATOs initiated with Rag1−/− marrow produce the same differentiation block as seen in the endogenous thymus, and Notch signaling patterns in M-ATOs mirror primary thymopoiesis. M-ATOs initiated with defined hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and lymphoid progenitors from marrow and thymus generate each of the downstream differentiation stages, allowing the kinetics of T cell differentiation to be tracked. Remarkably, single HSCs deposited into each M-ATO generate the complete trajectory of T cell differentiation, producing diverse TCR repertoires across clones that largely match endogenous thymus. M-ATOs represent a highly reproducible and efficient experimental platform for the interrogation of clonal thymopoiesis from HSCs.
中文翻译:
小鼠单造血干细胞胸腺生成的体外重现
我们报道了一种无血清、3D 鼠类人工胸腺类器官 (M-ATO) 系统,该系统模仿正常鼠类胸腺生成,可产生所有阶段的 T 细胞,从早期胸腺祖细胞到功能性单阳性(CD8SP 和 CD4SP)TCRαβ 和 TCRγδ 细胞。 RNA 测序将 M-ATO 衍生群体与表型相同的初级胸腺细胞进行比对。由Rag1 −/−骨髓启动的 M-ATO 产生与内源性胸腺相同的分化块,并且 M-ATO 中的 Notch 信号传导模式反映了初级胸腺生成。由特定的造血干细胞 (HSC) 以及来自骨髓和胸腺的淋巴祖细胞启动的 M-ATO 产生每个下游分化阶段,从而可以跟踪 T 细胞分化的动力学。值得注意的是,沉积到每个 M-ATO 中的单个 HSC 生成 T 细胞分化的完整轨迹,在克隆中产生与内源胸腺基本匹配的多样化 TCR 库。 M-ATO 代表了一个高度可重复且高效的实验平台,用于研究 HSC 的克隆胸腺生成作用。