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ArticleBlood advances2025

BCLAF1 restrains stress responses in hematopoietic stem cells to support expansion and repopulation.

Stephanie J Crowley, Wei Yang, Lynn S White, Jun Wu, Yanan Li, Haley Schmidt, Kyunghee Choi, Jeffrey A Magee, Jeffrey J Bednarski

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Stephanie J CrowleyDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.ORCID 0000-0002-6665-0108
Wei YangDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Lynn S WhiteDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Jun WuDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.ORCID 0000-0002-1891-368X
Yanan LiDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.ORCID 0000-0003-4396-0557
Haley SchmidtDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.ORCID 0000-0002-2654-9099
Kyunghee ChoiDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.ORCID 0000-0002-9634-9375
Jeffrey A MageeDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.ORCID 0000-0002-0766-4200
Jeffrey J BednarskiDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.ORCID 0000-0001-6902-0876

Funding

Hemangioglast Development and RegulationR01HL055337 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CHOI, KYUNGHEE · 2001 to 2024
$9.1M
RAG-mediated DNA Damage Responses in Immune Development and FunctionR01AI173077 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BEDNARSKI, JEFFREY J · 2022 to 2025
$2.6M
Role of DNA Damage Responses in Immune Development and FunctionR56AI153234 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BEDNARSKI, JEFFREY J · 2020 to 2020
$315k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL055337NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI173077NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI153234
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractHematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) rapidly expand during fetal development and after stress. Here, we identify B-cell lymphoma-2-associated factor 1 (BCLAF1) as a regulator of HSC repopulation activity, with roles in the expansion of fetal HSCs and hematopoietic reconstitution after stem cell transplantation. Using mice with hematopoietic-specific and inducible deletion of Bclaf1, we find that BCLAF1 promotes fetal HSC development but is dispensable for the maintenance of adult HSCs at steady state. Loss of BCLAF1 in either fetal or adult HSCs significantly impairs their self-renewal and multilineage reconstitution activity after stem cell transplantation. Single-cell RNA sequencing of fetal hematopoietic progenitors reveals that loss of BCLAF1 reduces long-term HSCs and restrains the expression of stress response genes. BCLAF1 associates with chromatin throughout the genome of fetal and adult hematopoietic cells, likely through indirect mechanisms, to regulate transcriptional programs. These results establish a novel function for the transcriptional regulator BCLAF1 in limiting stress responses in HSCs, thereby preserving HSC development during embryogenesis and repopulation function after stem cell transplant.

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Hematopoietic Stem CellsRepressor ProteinsStress, PhysiologicalAnimalsCell Self RenewalHematopoiesisHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationMiceMice, KnockoutRepressor Proteins

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PMID40435510
PMCPMC12345311

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