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Molecular and Cellular Biology, August 2008, p. 4794-4804, Vol. 28, No. 15
0270-7306/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00436-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Mind bomb-1 Is Essential for Intraembryonic Hematopoiesis in the Aortic Endothelium and the Subaortic Patches{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Mi-Jeong Yoon, Bon-Kyoung Koo, Ran Song, Hyun-Woo Jeong, Juhee Shin, Young-Woong Kim, Young-Yun Kong,* and Pann-Ghill Suh

Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784, South Korea

Received 17 March 2008/ Returned for modification 16 April 2008/ Accepted 19 May 2008

Intraembryonic hematopoiesis occurs at two different sites, the floor of the aorta and subaortic patches (SAPs) of the para-aortic splanchnopleura (P-Sp)/aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region. Notch1 and RBP-j{kappa} are critical for the specification of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in Notch signal-receiving cells. However, the mechanism by which Notch signaling is triggered from the Notch signal-sending cells to support embryonic hematopoiesis remains to be determined. We previously reported that Mind bomb-1 (Mib1) regulates Notch ligands in the Notch signal-sending cells (B. K. Koo, M. J. Yoon, K. J. Yoon, S. K. Im, Y. Y. Kim, C. H. Kim, P. G. Suh, Y. N. Jan, and Y. Y. Kong, PLoS ONE 2:e1221, 2007). Here, we show that intraembryonic hematopoietic progenitors were absent in the P-Sp of Mib1–/– embryos, whereas they were partly preserved in the Tie2-cre; Mib1f/f P-Sps, suggesting that Mib1 plays a role in the endothelium and the SAPs. Interestingly, dll1 and dll4/Jag1 are expressed in the SAPs and the endothelium of the AGM, respectively, where mib1 is detected. Indeed, Notch signaling was activated in the nascent HSCs at both sites. In the P-Sp explant culture, the overexpression of Dll1 in OP9 stromal cells rescued the failed production of hematopoietic progenitors in the Mib1–/– P-Sp, while its activity was abolished by Mib1 knockdown. These results suggest that Mib1 is important for intraembryonic hematopoiesis not only in the aortic endothelium but also in the SAPs.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784, South Korea. Phone: 82-54-279-2287. Fax: 82-54-279-2199. E-mail: ykong{at}postech.ac.kr

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 27 May 2008.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, August 2008, p. 4794-4804, Vol. 28, No. 15
0270-7306/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00436-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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