Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

LIGHT/LTβR signaling regulates self-renewal and differentiation of hematopoietic and leukemia stem cells

  • S. S. Höpner,
  • Ana Raykova,
  • R. Radpour,
  • M. A. Amrein,
  • D. Koller,
  • G. M. Baerlocher,
  • C. Riether,
  • A. F. Ochsenbein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21317-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Regulation of self-renewal is critical during steady state and stress in haematpoietic stem cells (HSCs), and underlies leukaemia pathology. Here, the authors show that LIGHT and its receptor LTβR promote quiescence and self-renewal of HSCs and that LTβR deficiency promotes survival in a mouse leukaemia model.