Recent Publications:

Weissman I.L., J. Allison, F.W. Alt, H. von Boehmer, M.D. Cooper, I. Feller, L.H. Glimcher, D.V. Goeddel, H. McDevitt, D. Mathis, G. Nossal, R.M. Perlmutter, C.B. Thompson, and D.C. Wiley.  International Benchmarking of US Immunology Research, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy Press, 2000.

Weissman I.L.  Stem cells:  units of development, units of regeneration, and units in evolution.  Invited review, Cell 100: 157-168, 2000.

Domen J., S. Cheshier, and I.L. Weissman.  The role of apoptosis in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells:  overexpression of BCL-2 increases both their number and repopulation potential. J. Exp. Med. 191: 253-263, 2000.

Weissman I.L. and N. Uchida.  Hematopoietic stem cells:  biological targets and therapeutic tools.  In:  Clinical Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation.  K Atkinson, Ed.  Cambridge Press, pp. 19-42, 2000.

Weissman I.L.  Translating stem and progenitor cell biology to the clinic:  barriers and opportunities.  Invited review, Science 287: 1442-1446, 2000.

Akashi K, T. Reya, D. Dalma-Weiszhausz, and I.L. Weissman.  Lymphoid precursors.  Current Opinion in Immunol. 12: 144-150, 2000.

Akashi K, D. Traver, T. Miyamoto, and I.L. Weissman.  A clonogenic common myeloid progenitor that gives rise to all myeloid lineages. Nature 404: 193-197, 2000.

Kim S., K. Iizuka, H.L. Aguila, I.L. Weissman, and W.M. Yokoyama.  In vivo natural killer cell activities revealed by natural killer cell-deficient mice.  PNAS 97:2731-36, 2000.

Nisitani S, A.B. Satterthwaite,  K. Akashi, I.L. Weissman, O.N. Witte, and M.I. Wahl.  Posttranscriptional regulation of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase expression in antigen receptor-stimulated splenic B cells. PNAS 97:2737-42, 2000. 

Akashi K, L.I. Richie, T. Miyamoto, W.H. Carr, and I.L. Weissman.  B lymphopoiesis in the thymus.  J. Immunol. 164: 5221-26, 2000.

Negrin RS, K. Atkinson, T. Leemhuis, E. Hanania, C. Juttner, K. Tierney, W.W. Hu, L.J. Johnston, J.A. Shizuru, K.E. Stockerl-Goldstein, K.G. Blume, I.L. Weissman, S. Bower, R. Baynes, R. Dansey, C. Karnes, W. Peters, and J. Klein.  Transplantation of highly purified CD34+Thy1+ hematopoietic stem cells in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Biol. Of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 6: 262-271, 2000.

Laird, D.J., A.W. De Tomaso, M.D. Cooper, and I.L.Weissman.  50 million years of chordate evolution:  seeking the origins of adaptive immunity.  PNAS 97: 6924-6926, 2000.

Miyamoto, T., I.L.Weissman, and K. Akashi.  AML1/ETO-expressing nonleukemic stem cells in acute myelogenous leukemia with 8;21 chromosomal translocation. PNAS 97: 7521-7526, 2000.

Lauzon R.J., B. Rinkevich,  C.W. Patton, and I.L.Weissman.  A morphological study of nonrandom senescence in a colonial urochordate.  Biol. Bull. 198: 367-378, 2000.

Klug C.A., S. Cheshier, and I.L. Weissman.  Inactivation of a GFP retrovirus occurs at multiple levels in long-term repopulating stem cells and their differentiated progeny.  Blood 96: 894-901, 2000.

Kondo M., D.C. Scherer, T. Miyamoto, A.G. King, K. Akashi, K. Sugamura,  and I.L. Weissman.  Cell-fate conversion of lymphoid-committed progenitors by instructive actions of cytokines.  Nature 407: 383-386, 2000.

Kina T., K. Ikuta, E. Takayama, K. Sen Wada, A.S. Majumdar, I.L. Weissman, and Y. Katsura.  The monoclonal antibody TER-119 recognizes a molecule associated with glycophorin A and specifically marks the late stages of murine erythroid lineage.  British J. Hematology 109: 280-287, 2000.

Kondo, M., and I.L. Weissman.  Function of cytokines in lymphocyte development.  In:  Lymphoid Organogenesis.  F. Melchers, Ed.  Springer-Verlag, pp. 59-65, 2000.

Lagasse E., H. Connors, M. Al-Dhalimy, M. Reitsma, M. Dohse, L. Osborne, X. Wang, M. Finegold, I.L. Weissman, and M. Grompe.  Purified hematopoietic stem cells can differentiate to hepatocytes in vivo.  Nature Medicine 6: 1229-1234, 2000.

Terskikh A.,  A. Fradkov, G. Ermakova, A. Zaraisky, P. Tan, A.V. Kajava, X.  Zhao, S. Lukyanov, M. Matz, S. Kim, I. Weissman, and P. Siebert.  “Fluorescent timer”:  protein that changes color with time.  Science 290: 1585-1588, 2000.

Uchida N, D.W. Buck, H. Dongping, M.J. Reitsma, M. Masek, T.V. Phan, A.S. Tsukamoto,  F.H. Gage,  and I.L. Weissman.  Direct isolation of human central nervous system stem cells.  PNAS 97: 14720-14725, 2000.

Traver, D., K. Akashi, M. Manz, M. Merad, T. Miyamoto, E.G. Engleman, and I.L. Weissman.  Development of CD8a-positive dendritic cells from a common myeloid progenitor.  Science 290: 2152-2154, 2000.

Shizuru, J.A., I.L. Weissman, R. Kernoff, M. Masek, and Y.C. Scheffold.  Purified hematopoietic stem cell grafts induce tolerance to alloantigens and can mediate positive and negative T cell selection.  PNAS 97:9555-9560, 2000.

Domen. J., and I.L. Weissman.  Hematopoietic stem cells need two signals to prevent apoptosis; BCL-2 can provide one of these, Kitl/c-Kit signaling the other.  J. Exp. Med. 192: 1707-1718, 2000.

Wright, D.E., and I.L. Weissman.  Formation and differentiation of leukocytes.  In:  Physiology of Inflammation.  K. Ley, Ed., Oxford Press, pp. 11-51, 2001. 

Geschwind, D.H., J. Ou, M.C. Easterday, J.D. Dougherty,R.L.  Jackson, Z. Chen, H. Antoine, A. Terskikh, I.L. Weissman, S.F. Nelson, and H.I. Kornblum.  A genetic analysis of neural progenitor differentiation. Neuron 29: 325-339, 2001.

Kogan, S.C., D.E. Brown, D.B. Schultz, B-TH. Truong, V. Lallemand-Breitenbach,M.-C.  Guillemin, E. Lagasse, I.L. Weissman, and J.M. Bishop.  BCL-2 cooperates with Promyelocytic Leukemia Retinoic Acid Receptor (PMLRARa) to block neutrophil differentiation and initiate acute leukemia.  J. Exp. Med. 193: 531-543, 2001.

Qian F, D. Hanahan, and I.L. Weissman.  L-selectin can facilitate metastasis to lymph nodes in a transgenic mice model of carcinogenesis.  PNAS 98: 3976-3981, 2001.

Allsopp, R.C., S. Cheshier, I.L. Weissman.  Telomere shortening accompanies increased cell cycle activity during serial transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells. J. Exp. Med. 193: 917-924, 2001.

Akashi K, and I.L. Weissman.  Stem cells and hematolymphoid development.  In:  Hematopoiesis, A Developmental Approach, Zon LI, editor, Oxford Press, pp 15-34, 2001.

Anderson, D.J., F.H. Gage, and I.L. Weissman.  Can stem cells cross lineage boundaries?  Invited commentary, Nature Med. 7: 393-395, 2001.

Wright, DE, S. H. Cheshier, A.J. Wagers, T.D. Randall, J.L. Christensen, and I.L. Weissman.  Cyclophosphamide/ granulocyte colony-stimulating factor causes selective mobilization of bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells into the blood after M-phase of the cell cycle.  Blood 97: 2278-2285, 2001.

Park I-K, C.A. Klug, K. Li, L. Jerabek, L. Li, M. Nanamori, R. R. Neubig, L. Hood, I.L. Weissman, and M.F. Clarke.  Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel regulator of G-protein signaling from mouse hematopoietic stem cells.  J. Biol. Chem. 276: 915-923, 2001.

Lagasse E, J. A. Shizuru, N. Uchida, A. Tsukamoto, and I.L. Weissman.  Towards regenerative medicine.  Immunity 14: 425-436, 2001.

Weissman I.L., and D. Baltimore.  Disappearing stem cells, disappearing science.  Invited editorial, Science 292: 601, 2001.

Manz, M.G., D. Traver, T. Miyamoto, I.L. Weissman, and K. Akashi.  Dendritic cell potentials of early lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.  Blood 97: 3333-3341, 2001.

Mebius, R.E., T. Miyamoto, J. Christensen, J. Domen, T. Cupedo,  I.L. Weissman, and K.  Akashi.  The fetal liver counterpart of adult common lymphoid progenitors gives rise to all lymphoid lineages, CD45+ CD4+ CD3- cells, as well as macrophages.  J. Immunol. 166: 6593-6601, 2001.

Terskikh, A.V., M.C. Easterday, L. Li, L. Hood, H.I. Kornblum, D.H. Geschwind, and I.L. Weissman.  From hematopoiesis to neuropoiesis:  evidence of overlapping genetic programs.  PNAS 98: 7934-7939, 2001.

DiMartino, J.F., L. Selleri, D. Traver, M.T. Firpo, J. Rhee, R. Warnke, S. O’Gorman, I.L.Weissman, and M.L. Cleary.  The Hox cofactor and proto-oncogene Pbx1 is required for maintenance of definitive hematopoiesis in the fetal liver.  Blood 98: 618-626, 2001.

Traver, D, T. Miyamoto, J. Christensen, J. Iwasaki-Arai, K. Akashi, and I.L. Weissman.  Fetal liver myelopoiesis occurs through distinct, prospectively isolatable progenitor subsets.  Blood 98: 627-635, 2001.

Yuan Y, L. Zhou, T. Miyamoto, H. Iwasaki, N. Harakawa, C.J. Hetherington, S.A. Burel, E. Lagasse, I.L. Weissman, K. Akashi, and D.-E. Zhang.  AML1-ETO expression is directly involved in the development of acute myeloid leukemia in the presence of additional mutations. .  PNAS 98: 10398-10403, 2001.

Kondo, M, D.C. Scherer, A.G. King, M.G. Manz, and I. L. Weissman.  Lymphoycte development from hematopoietic stem cells.  Invited review, Curr. Opinion in Genetics & Development 11: 520-526, 2001.

Brown, J.M., I.L. Weissman, and J.A. Shizuru.  Immunity to infections following hematopoietic cell transplantation.  Current Topics Immunology, pp. 451-147, 2001.

Mebius, R.E., I.L. Weissman, and G. Kraal.  The development of the lymph node vasculature.  In:  Morphogenesis of Endothelium.  W Risau, Ed.  In press.

Jerabek, L, and I.L. Weissman.  Intrathymic injection for analysis of T cell progenitor activity.  In:  Hematopoietic Stem Cell Protocols.  Klug CA, Jordan CT, Eds.  Humana Press. In press.

Weissman. I.L., D.J. Anderson, and F. Gage.  Stem and progenitor cells:  origins, phenotypes, lineage commitments, and transdifferentiation.  In:  Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In press.

Manz M.G., D. Traver, K. Akashi, M. Merad, T. Miyamoto, E. Engleman, and I L. Weissman.  Dendritic cell development from common myeloid progenitors.   In:  Hematopoietic Stem Cells 2000:  Basic and Clinical Sciences - Third International Conference, Vol. 938 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Orlic D, Brummendorf TH, Sharkis SJ, and Kanz L, eds. In press.

Reya T, S.J. Morrison, M.F. Clarke, and I.L. Weissman.  Stem cells, cancer, and cancer stem cells.  Invited review, Nature.  In press.

Wagers, A.J., J.L. Christensen, and I.L. Weissman.  Cell fate determination from stem cells.  Invited review, Gene Therapy. In press.

Park I-K, Y. He, F. Lin, O.D. Laerum, Q. Tian, R. Bumgarner, C.A. Klug, K. Li, C. Kuhr,  M.J. Doyle, Y. Sun, M. Schummer, A. Goldsmith, M.F. Clarke, I.L. Weissman, L. Hood, and L. Linheng.  Differential gene expression profiling of adult murine hematopoietic stem cells.  Blood. In press.