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* Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook and Womens Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
Departamento de Immunología y Oncología, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Childrens Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston MA 02115
The bone marrow and thymus, although both hemopoietic environments, induce very distinct differentiation outcomes. The former supports hemopoietic stem cell self-renewal and multiple hemopoietic lineages, while the latter supports T lymphopoiesis almost exclusively. This distinction suggests that the thymic environment acts to restrict the hemopoietic fates available to thymic immigrants. In this study, we demonstrate that the addition of the Notch ligand Delta-like-1 (Dll-1) to an in vitro system that otherwise supports myelopoiesis, greatly reduces the myelopoietic potential of stem cells or uncommitted progenitors. In contrast, committed myeloid progenitors mature regardless of the presence of Dll-1. The block in myelopoiesis is the direct result of Notch signaling within the hemopoietic progenitor, and Dll-1-induced signals cause a rapid increase in the expression of the zinc finger transcription factor GATA-2. Importantly, in the absence of GATA-2, Dll-1-induced signals fail to inhibit commitment to the myeloid fate. Taken together, our results support a role for GATA-2 in allowing Dll-1 to restrict non-T cell lineage differentiation outcomes.
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