From hematopoietic progenitors to B cells: mechanisms of lineage restriction and commitment

J Ramírez, K Lukin, J Hagman - Current opinion in immunology, 2010 - Elsevier
The generation of B lymphocytes from hematopoietic progenitors requires lineage-specific
transcription factors that progressively direct cell fate choices. Differentiation of …

Challenging the axiom: does the occurrence of oncogenic mutations truly limit cancer development with age?

J DeGregori - Oncogene, 2013 - nature.com
A widely accepted paradigm in cancer research holds that the development of cancers is
rate limited by the occurrence of oncogenic mutations. In particular, the exponential rise in …

IKAROS and AIOLOS directly regulate AP-1 transcriptional complexes and are essential for NK cell development

W Goh, H Sudholz, M Foroutan, S Scheer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ikaros transcription factors are essential for adaptive lymphocyte function, yet their role in
innate lymphopoiesis is unknown. Using conditional genetic inactivation, we show that …

IKZF2 drives leukemia stem cell self-renewal and inhibits myeloid differentiation

SM Park, H Cho, AM Thornton, TS Barlowe, T Chou… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
Leukemias exhibit a dysregulated developmental program mediated through both genetic
and epigenetic mechanisms. Although IKZF2 is expressed in hematopoietic stem cells …

Prognostic value of rare IKZF1 deletion in childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: an international collaborative study

JM Boer, A van der Veer, D Rizopoulos, M Fiocco… - Leukemia, 2016 - nature.com
Deletions in IKZF1 are found in~ 15% of children with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (BCP-ALL). There is strong evidence for the poor prognosis of IKZF1 deletions …

IKAROS deletions dictate a unique gene expression signature in patients with adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

I Iacobucci, N Iraci, M Messina, A Lonetti, S Chiaretti… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Deletions of IKAROS (IKZF1) frequently occur in B-cell precursor acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) but the mechanisms by which they influence pathogenesis …

Angiopoietin-like protein 3 supports the activity of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow niche

J Zheng, HD Huynh, M Umikawa… - Blood, The Journal …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
The physiologic roles of angiopoietin-like proteins (Angptls) in the hematopoietic system
remain unknown. Here we show that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in Angptl3-null mice …

Long and short non-coding RNAs as regulators of hematopoietic differentiation

F Morceau, S Chateauvieux, A Gaigneaux… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Genomic analyses estimated that the proportion of the genome encoding proteins
corresponds to approximately 1.5%, while at least 66% are transcribed, suggesting that …

Molecular mechanisms by which T‐bet regulates T‐helper cell commitment

SA Miller, AS Weinmann - Immunological reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Current research suggests that a number of newly identified T‐helper cell subsets retain a
degree of context‐dependent plasticity in their signature cytokine expression patterns. To …

On becoming a T cell, a convergence of factors kick it up a Notch along the way

PK Thompson, JC Zuniga-Pfluecker - Seminars in immunology, 2011 - Elsevier
The thymus is seeded by bone marrow-derived progenitors, which undergo a series of
differentiation and proliferation events in order to generate functional T lymphocytes. The …