Complementary and Inducible creERT2 Mouse Models for Functional Evaluation of Endothelial Cell Subtypes in the Bone Marrow

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Poulos, Michael, G | Ramalingam, Pradeep | Winiarski, Agatha | Gutkin, Michael, C | Katsnelson, Lizabeth | Carter, Cody | Pibouin-Fragner, Laurence | Eichmann, Anne | Thomas, Jean-Leon | Miquerol, Lucile | Butler, Jason, M

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In the adult bone marrow (BM), endothelial cells (ECs) are an integral component of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC)supportive niche, which modulates HSC activity by producing secreted and membrane-bound paracrine signals. Within the BM, distinct vascular arteriole, transitional, and sinusoidal EC subtypes display unique paracrine expression profiles and create anatomically-discrete microenvironments. However, the relative contributions of vascular endothelial subtypes in supporting hematopoiesis is unclear. Moreover, constitutive expression and off-target activity of currently available endothelialspecific and endothelial-subtype-specific murine cre lines potentially confound data analysis and interpretation. To address this, we describe two tamoxifen-inducible cre-expressing lines, Vegfr3-creER T2 and Cx40-creER T2 , that efficiently label sinusoidal/transitional and arteriole endothelium respectively in adult marrow, without off-target activity in hematopoietic or perivascular cells. Utilizing an established mouse model in which cre-dependent recombination constitutively-activates MAPK signaling within adult endothelium, we identify arteriole ECs as the driver of MAPK-mediated hematopoietic dysfunction. These results define complementary tamoxifen-inducible creER T2 -expressing mouse lines that label functionallydiscrete and non-overlapping sinusoidal/transitional and arteriole EC populations in the adult BM, providing a robust toolset to investigate the differential contributions of vascular subtypes in maintaining hematopoietic homeostasis.

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