ERC Starting Grant · 2021
What does your blood remember? The memory of hematopoietic stem cells.
Human organism produces over a million new blood cells each second. The hematopoietic system dynamically reacts to environmental stress and forms adaptive immunity to memorize and effectively fight the encounter pathogens. However, based on our recent studies and preliminary results, we propose that the adaptive capabilities and memory of the hematopoietic system reach far beyond the classical adaptive antigen-specific immunity. We hypothesize that hematopoietic stress induces clonal expansion of lineage-biased hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with epigenetic memory that faster and more effectively respond to secondary stimulation with a given stress factor. We propose that lineage-biased…
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