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Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2005
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Accepted on March 3, 2005

Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor-1 Expression Is Required for Hematopoietic but not Endothelial Cell Development

Peetra Ulrica Magnusson ; Roberto Ronca ; Patrizia Dell’Era ; Pia Carlstedt ; Lars Jakobsson ; Juha Partanen ; Anna Dimberg ; and Lena Claesson-Welsh *

From the Department of Genetics and Pathology (P.U.M., P.C., L.J., A.D., L.C.-W.), Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; the Unit of General Pathology and Immunology (R.R., P.D.E.), Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; and the Institute of Biotechnology (J.P.), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Lena.Welsh{at}genpat.uu.se.

Objective--The purpose of this study was to clarify the role of fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) and FGF receptors (FGFRs) in hematopoietic/endothelial development.

Methods and Results--Using several different FGFR-1-specific antibodies and FGFR-1 promoter-driven LacZ activity, we show that FGFR-1 is expressed and active as a tyrosine kinase in a subpopulation of endothelial cells ({approx}20% of the endothelial pool) during development in embryoid bodies. In agreement, in stem cell-derived teratomas, expression of FGFR-1 was detected in some but not all vessels. The FGFR-1 expressing endothelial cells were mitogenically active in the absence and presence of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Expression of FGFR-1 in endothelial cell precursors was not required for vascular development, and vascularization was enhanced in FGFR-1-deficient embryoid bodies compared with wild-type stem cells. In contrast, hematopoietic development was severely disturbed, with reduced expression of markers for primitive and definitive hematopoiesis.

Conclusions--Our data show that FGFR-1 is expressed in early hematopoietic/endothelial precursor cells, as well as in a subpool of endothelial cells in tumor vessels, and that it is critical for hematopoietic but not for vascular development.


Key words: angiogenesis • endothelial cells • FGF receptor-1 • hematopoiesis • vasculogenesis


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