Publications

1. Ng ES, Sarila G, Li JY, Edirisinghe HS, Saxena R, Sun S, Bruveris FF, Labonne T, Sleebs N, Maytum A, Yow RY, Inguanti C, Motazedian A, Calvanese V, Capellera-Garcia S, Ma F, Nim HT, Ramialison M, Bonifer C, Mikkola HKA, Stanley EG, Elefanty AG. Long-term engrafting multilineage hematopoietic cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells.. Nature biotechnology, 2024.
2. Aguadé-Gorgorió J, Jami-Alahmadi Y, Calvanese V, Kardouh M, Fares I, Johnson H, Rezek V, Ma F, Magnusson M, Wang Y, Shin JE, Nance KJ, Goodridge HS, Liebscher S, Schenke-Layland K, Crooks GM, Wohlschlegel JA, Mikkola HKA. MYCT1 controls environmental sensing in human haematopoietic stem cells.. Nature, 2024.
3. Calvanese V, Mikkola HKA. The genesis of human hematopoietic stem cells.. Blood, 2023.
4. Calvanese V, Capellera-Garcia S, Ma F, Fares I, Liebscher S, Ng ES, Ekstrand S, Aguadé-Gorgorió J, Vavilina A, Lefaudeux D, Nadel B, Li JY, Wang Y, Lee LK, Ardehali R, Iruela-Arispe ML, Pellegrini M, Stanley EG, Elefanty AG, Schenke-Layland K, Mikkola HKA. Mapping human haematopoietic stem cells from haemogenic endothelium to birth.. Nature, 2022.
5. Mikkola HKA. Yolk sac steps up to the plate.. The Journal of experimental medicine, 2022.
6. Zbinden A, Layland SL, Urbanczyk M, Carvajal Berrio DA, Marzi J, Zauner M, Hammerschmidt A, Brauchle EM, Sudrow K, Fink S, Templin M, Liebscher S, Klein G, Deb A, Duffy GP, Crooks GM, Eble JA, Mikkola HKA, Nsair A, Seifert M, Schenke-Layland K. Nidogen-1 Mitigates Ischemia and Promotes Tissue Survival and Regeneration.. Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2020.
7. Fang S, Chen S, Nurmi H, Leppänen VM, Jeltsch M, Scadden D, Silberstein L, Mikkola H, Alitalo K. VEGF-C protects the integrity of the bone marrow perivascular niche in mice.. Blood, 2020.
8. Calvanese V, Nguyen AT, Bolan TJ, Vavilina A, Su T, Lee LK, Wang Y, Lay FD, Magnusson M, Crooks GM, Kurdistani SK, Mikkola HKA. MLLT3 governs human haematopoietic stem-cell self-renewal and engraftment.. Nature, 2019.
9. Park S, Ranjbarvaziri S, Lay FD, Zhao P, Miller MJ, Dhaliwal JS, Huertas-Vazquez A, Wu X, Qiao R, Soffer JM, Rau C, Wang Y, Mikkola HKA, Lusis AJ, Ardehali R. Genetic Regulation of Fibroblast Activation and Proliferation in Cardiac Fibrosis.. Circulation, 2018.
10. Ferguson GB, Van Handel B, Bay M, Fiziev P, Org T, Lee S, Shkhyan R, Banks NW, Scheinberg M, Wu L, Saitta B, Elphingstone J, Larson AN, Riester SM, Pyle AD, Bernthal NM, Mikkola HK, Ernst J, van Wijnen AJ, Bonaguidi M, Evseenko D. Mapping molecular landmarks of human skeletal ontogeny and pluripotent stem cell-derived articular chondrocytes.. Nature communications, 2018.
11. Grace CS, Mikkola HKA, Dou DR, Calvanese V, Ronn RE, Purton LE. Protagonist or antagonist? The complex roles of retinoids in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells and their specification from pluripotent stem cells.. Experimental hematology, 2018.
12. Sereti KI, Nguyen NB, Kamran P, Zhao P, Ranjbarvaziri S, Park S, Sabri S, Engel JL, Sung K, Kulkarni RP, Ding Y, Hsiai TK, Plath K, Ernst J, Sahoo D, Mikkola HKA, Iruela-Arispe ML, Ardehali R. Analysis of cardiomyocyte clonal expansion during mouse heart development and injury.. Nature communications, 2018.
13. Komorowska K, Doyle A, Wahlestedt M, Subramaniam A, Debnath S, Chen J, Soneji S, Van Handel B, Mikkola HKA, Miharada K, Bryder D, Larsson J, Magnusson M. Hepatic Leukemia Factor Maintains Quiescence of Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Protects the Stem Cell Pool during Regeneration.. Cell reports, 2017.
14. Lee LK, Ghorbanian Y, Wang W, Wang Y, Kim YJ, Weissman IL, Inlay MA, Mikkola HKA. LYVE1 Marks the Divergence of Yolk Sac Definitive Hemogenic Endothelium from the Primitive Erythroid Lineage.. Cell reports, 2016.
15. Ng ES, Azzola L, Bruveris FF, Calvanese V, Phipson B, Vlahos K, Hirst C, Jokubaitis VJ, Yu QC, Maksimovic J, Liebscher S, Januar V, Zhang Z, Williams B, Conscience A, Durnall J, Jackson S, Costa M, Elliott D, Haylock DN, Nilsson SK, Saffery R, Schenke-Layland K, Oshlack A, Mikkola HK, Stanley EG, Elefanty AG. Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to HOXA+ hemogenic vasculature that resembles the aorta-gonad-mesonephros.. Nature biotechnology, 2016.
16. Wang W, Org T, Montel-Hagen A, Pioli PD, Duan D, Israely E, Malkin D, Su T, Flach J, Kurdistani SK, Schiestl RH, Mikkola HK. MEF2C protects bone marrow B-lymphoid progenitors during stress haematopoiesis.. Nature communications, 2016.
17. Fang S, Nurmi H, Heinolainen K, Chen S, Salminen E, Saharinen P, Mikkola HK, Alitalo K. Critical requirement of VEGF-C in transition to fetal erythropoiesis.. Blood, 2016.
18. Dou DR, Calvanese V, Sierra MI, Nguyen AT, Minasian A, Saarikoski P, Sasidharan R, Ramirez CM, Zack JA, Crooks GM, Galic Z, Mikkola HK. Medial HOXA genes demarcate haematopoietic stem cell fate during human development.. Nature cell biology, 2016.
19. Calvanese V, Mikkola HK. Tracking HSC Origin: From Bench to Placenta.. Developmental cell, 2016.
20. Sadarangani A, Pineda G, Lennon KM, Chun HJ, Shih A, Schairer AE, Court AC, Goff DJ, Prashad SL, Geron I, Wall R, McPherson JD, Moore RA, Pu M, Bao L, Jackson-Fisher A, Munchhof M, VanArsdale T, Reya T, Morris SR, Minden MD, Messer K, Mikkola HK, Marra MA, Hudson TJ, Jamieson CH. GLI2 inhibition abrogates human leukemia stem cell dormancy.. Journal of translational medicine, 2015.
21. Org T, Duan D, Ferrari R, Montel-Hagen A, Van Handel B, Kerényi MA, Sasidharan R, Rubbi L, Fujiwara Y, Pellegrini M, Orkin SH, Kurdistani SK, Mikkola HK. Scl binds to primed enhancers in mesoderm to regulate hematopoietic and cardiac fate divergence.. The EMBO journal, 2015.
22. Prashad SL, Calvanese V, Yao CY, Kaiser J, Wang Y, Sasidharan R, Crooks G, Magnusson M, Mikkola HK. GPI-80 defines self-renewal ability in hematopoietic stem cells during human development.. Cell stem cell, 2014.
23. Mishra BP, Zaffuto KM, Artinger EL, Org T, Mikkola HK, Cheng C, Djabali M, Ernst P. The histone methyltransferase activity of MLL1 is dispensable for hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis.. Cell reports, 2014.
24. Calvanese V, Lee LK, Mikkola HK. Sex hormone drives blood stem cell reproduction.. The EMBO journal, 2014.
25. Goddard LM, Murphy TJ, Org T, Enciso JM, Hashimoto-Partyka MK, Warren CM, Domigan CK, McDonald AI, He H, Sanchez LA, Allen NC, Orsenigo F, Chao LC, Dejana E, Tontonoz P, Mikkola HK, Iruela-Arispe ML. Progesterone receptor in the vascular endothelium triggers physiological uterine permeability preimplantation.. Cell, 2014.
26. Ueno M, Lee LK, Chhabra A, Kim YJ, Sasidharan R, Van Handel B, Wang Y, Kamata M, Kamran P, Sereti KI, Ardehali R, Jiang M, Mikkola HK. c-Met-dependent multipotent labyrinth trophoblast progenitors establish placental exchange interface.. Developmental cell, 2013.
27. Oh P, Lobry C, Gao J, Tikhonova A, Loizou E, Manet J, van Handel B, Ibrahim S, Greve J, Mikkola H, Artavanis-Tsakonas S, Aifantis I. In vivo mapping of notch pathway activity in normal and stress hematopoiesis.. Cell stem cell, 2013.
28. Goddard LM, Ton AN, Org T, Mikkola HK, Iruela-Arispe ML. Selective suppression of endothelial cytokine production by progesterone receptor.. Vascular pharmacology, 2013.
29. Montel-Hagen A, Van Handel B, Mikkola H. [An unexpected repressive role for Scl in the embryonic endothelium].. Medecine sciences : M/S, 2013.
30. Magnusson M, Sierra MI, Sasidharan R, Prashad SL, Romero M, Saarikoski P, Van Handel B, Huang A, Li X, Mikkola HK. Expansion on stromal cells preserves the undifferentiated state of human hematopoietic stem cells despite compromised reconstitution ability.. PloS one, 2013.
31. Nakano H, Liu X, Arshi A, Nakashima Y, van Handel B, Sasidharan R, Harmon AW, Shin JH, Schwartz RJ, Conway SJ, Harvey RP, Pashmforoush M, Mikkola HK, Nakano A. Haemogenic endocardium contributes to transient definitive haematopoiesis.. Nature communications, 2013.
32. Palomares K, Vigant F, Van Handel B, Pernet O, Chikere K, Hong P, Sherman SP, Patterson M, An DS, Lowry WE, Mikkola HK, Morizono K, Pyle AD, Lee B. Nipah virus envelope-pseudotyped lentiviruses efficiently target ephrinB2-positive stem cell populations in vitro and bypass the liver sink when administered in vivo.. Journal of virology, 2012.
33. Nsair A, Schenke-Layland K, Van Handel B, Evseenko D, Kahn M, Zhao P, Mendelis J, Heydarkhan S, Awaji O, Vottler M, Geist S, Chyu J, Gago-Lopez N, Crooks GM, Plath K, Goldhaber J, Mikkola HK, MacLellan WR. Characterization and therapeutic potential of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells.. PloS one, 2012.
34. Xu J, Shao Z, Glass K, Bauer DE, Pinello L, Van Handel B, Hou S, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Mikkola HK, Yuan GC, Orkin SH. Combinatorial assembly of developmental stage-specific enhancers controls gene expression programs during human erythropoiesis.. Developmental cell, 2012.
35. Kohn LA, Hao QL, Sasidharan R, Parekh C, Ge S, Zhu Y, Mikkola HK, Crooks GM. Lymphoid priming in human bone marrow begins before expression of CD10 with upregulation of L-selectin.. Nature immunology, 2012.
36. Li JY, Patterson M, Mikkola HK, Lowry WE, Kurdistani SK. Dynamic distribution of linker histone H1.5 in cellular differentiation.. PLoS genetics, 2012.
37. Van Handel B, Montel-Hagen A, Sasidharan R, Nakano H, Ferrari R, Boogerd CJ, Schredelseker J, Wang Y, Hunter S, Org T, Zhou J, Li X, Pellegrini M, Chen JN, Orkin SH, Kurdistani SK, Evans SM, Nakano A, Mikkola HK. Scl represses cardiomyogenesis in prospective hemogenic endothelium and endocardium.. Cell, 2012.
38. Chhabra A, Lechner AJ, Ueno M, Acharya A, Van Handel B, Wang Y, Iruela-Arispe ML, Tallquist MD, Mikkola HK. Trophoblasts regulate the placental hematopoietic niche through PDGF-B signaling.. Developmental cell, 2012.
39. Hall-Glenn F, De Young RA, Huang BL, van Handel B, Hofmann JJ, Chen TT, Choi A, Ong JR, Benya PD, Mikkola H, Iruela-Arispe ML, Lyons KM. CCN2/connective tissue growth factor is essential for pericyte adhesion and endothelial basement membrane formation during angiogenesis.. PloS one, 2012.
40. Hyde BB, Liesa M, Elorza AA, Qiu W, Haigh SE, Richey L, Mikkola HK, Schlaeger TM, Shirihai OS. The mitochondrial transporter ABC-me (ABCB10), a downstream target of GATA-1, is essential for erythropoiesis in vivo.. Cell death and differentiation, 2012.
41. Hong C, Kidani Y, A-Gonzalez N, Phung T, Ito A, Rong X, Ericson K, Mikkola H, Beaven SW, Miller LS, Shao WH, Cohen PL, Castrillo A, Tontonoz P, Bensinger SJ. Coordinate regulation of neutrophil homeostasis by liver X receptors in mice.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 2011.
42. Patterson M, Chan DN, Ha I, Case D, Cui Y, Van Handel B, Mikkola HK, Lowry WE. Defining the nature of human pluripotent stem cell progeny.. Cell research, 2011.
43. Chhabra A, Mikkola HK. Return to youth with Sox17.. Genes & development, 2011.
44. Schenke-Layland K, Nsair A, Van Handel B, Angelis E, Gluck JM, Votteler M, Goldhaber JI, Mikkola HK, Kahn M, Maclellan WR. Recapitulation of the embryonic cardiovascular progenitor cell niche.. Biomaterials, 2011.
45. Huang X, Gschweng E, Van Handel B, Cheng D, Mikkola HK, Witte ON. Regulated expression of microRNAs-126/126* inhibits erythropoiesis from human embryonic stem cells.. Blood, 2010.
46. Van Handel B, Prashad SL, Hassanzadeh-Kiabi N, Huang A, Magnusson M, Atanassova B, Chen A, Hamalainen EI, Mikkola HK. The first trimester human placenta is a site for terminal maturation of primitive erythroid cells.. Blood, 2010.
47. Lee LK, Ueno M, Van Handel B, Mikkola HK. Placenta as a newly identified source of hematopoietic stem cells.. Current opinion in hematology, 2010.
48. Mikkola HK, Radu CG, Witte ON. Targeting leukemia stem cells.. Nature biotechnology, 2010.
49. Gekas C, Rhodes KE, Van Handel B, Chhabra A, Ueno M, Mikkola HK. Hematopoietic stem cell development in the placenta.. The International journal of developmental biology, 2010.
50. Gereige LM, Mikkola HK. DNA methylation is a guardian of stem cell self-renewal and multipotency.. Nature genetics, 2009.
51. Park TS, Galic Z, Conway AE, Lindgren A, van Handel BJ, Magnusson M, Richter L, Teitell MA, Mikkola HK, Lowry WE, Plath K, Clark AT. Derivation of primordial germ cells from human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells is significantly improved by coculture with human fetal gonadal cells.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2009.
52. Mikkola H. ESAM: adding to the hematopoietic toolbox.. Blood, 2009.
53. Gekas C, Rhodes KE, Gereige LM, Helgadottir H, Ferrari R, Kurdistani SK, Montecino-Rodriguez E, Bassel-Duby R, Olson E, Krivtsov AV, Armstrong S, Orkin SH, Pellegrini M, Mikkola HK. Mef2C is a lineage-restricted target of Scl/Tal1 and regulates megakaryopoiesis and B-cell homeostasis.. Blood, 2009.
54. Sankaran VG, Menne TF, Xu J, Akie TE, Lettre G, Van Handel B, Mikkola HK, Hirschhorn JN, Cantor AB, Orkin SH. Human fetal hemoglobin expression is regulated by the developmental stage-specific repressor BCL11A.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2008.
55. Elorza A, Hyde B, Mikkola HK, Collins S, Shirihai OS. UCP2 modulates cell proliferation through the MAPK/ERK pathway during erythropoiesis and has no effect on heme biosynthesis.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2008.
56. Gekas C, Rhodes KE, Mikkola HK. Isolation and visualization of mouse placental hematopoietic stem cells.. Current protocols in stem cell biology, 2008.
57. Schenke-Layland K, Rhodes KE, Angelis E, Butylkova Y, Heydarkhan-Hagvall S, Gekas C, Zhang R, Goldhaber JI, Mikkola HK, Plath K, MacLellan WR. Reprogrammed mouse fibroblasts differentiate into cells of the cardiovascular and hematopoietic lineages.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2008.
58. Magnusson M, Mikkola HK. Hematopoietic stem cells in transit--where's the niche?. Cell stem cell, 2008.
59. Rhodes KE, Gekas C, Wang Y, Lux CT, Francis CS, Chan DN, Conway S, Orkin SH, Yoder MC, Mikkola HK. The emergence of hematopoietic stem cells is initiated in the placental vasculature in the absence of circulation.. Cell stem cell, 2008.
60. Martinez-Agosto JA, Mikkola HK, Hartenstein V, Banerjee U. The hematopoietic stem cell and its niche: a comparative view.. Genes & development, 2007.
61. Schenke-Layland K, Angelis E, Rhodes KE, Heydarkhan-Hagvall S, Mikkola HK, Maclellan WR. Collagen IV induces trophoectoderm differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2007.
62. Mikkola HK, Orkin SH. The journey of developing hematopoietic stem cells.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2006.
63. Teitell MA, Mikkola HK. Transcriptional activators, repressors, and epigenetic modifiers controlling hematopoietic stem cell development.. Pediatric research, 2006.
64. Mikkola HK, Gekas C, Orkin SH, Dieterlen-Lievre F. Placenta as a site for hematopoietic stem cell development.. Experimental hematology, 2005.
65. Gekas C, Dieterlen-Lièvre F, Orkin SH, Mikkola HK. The placenta is a niche for hematopoietic stem cells.. Developmental cell, 2005.
66. Schlaeger TM, Mikkola HK, Gekas C, Helgadottir HB, Orkin SH. Tie2Cre-mediated gene ablation defines the stem-cell leukemia gene (SCL/tal1)-dependent window during hematopoietic stem-cell development.. Blood, 2005.
67. Mikkola HK, Orkin SH. Gene targeting and transgenic strategies for the analysis of hematopoietic development in the mouse.. Methods in molecular medicine, 2005.
68. Schlaeger TM, Schuh A, Flitter S, Fisher A, Mikkola H, Orkin SH, Vyas P, Porcher C. Decoding hematopoietic specificity in the helix-loop-helix domain of the transcription factor SCL/Tal-1.. Molecular and cellular biology, 2004.
69. Mikkola HK, Klintman J, Yang H, Hock H, Schlaeger TM, Fujiwara Y, Orkin SH. Haematopoietic stem cells retain long-term repopulating activity and multipotency in the absence of stem-cell leukaemia SCL/tal-1 gene.. Nature, 2003.
70. Mikkola HK, Fujiwara Y, Schlaeger TM, Traver D, Orkin SH. Expression of CD41 marks the initiation of definitive hematopoiesis in the mouse embryo.. Blood, 2002.
71. Mikkola HK, Orkin SH. The search for the hemangioblast.. Journal of hematotherapy & stem cell research, 2002.
72. Woods NB, Mikkola H, Nilsson E, Olsson K, Trono D, Karlsson S. Lentiviral-mediated gene transfer into haematopoietic stem cells.. Journal of internal medicine, 2001.
73. Woods NB, Fahlman C, Mikkola H, Hamaguchi I, Olsson K, Zufferey R, Jacobsen SE, Trono D, Karlsson S. Lentiviral gene transfer into primary and secondary NOD/SCID repopulating cells.. Blood, 2000.
74. Mikkola H, Woods NB, Sjögren M, Helgadottir H, Hamaguchi I, Jacobsen SE, Trono D, Karlsson S. Lentivirus gene transfer in murine hematopoietic progenitor cells is compromised by a delay in proviral integration and results in transduction mosaicism and heterogeneous gene expression in progeny cells.. Journal of virology, 2000.
75. Hamaguchi I, Woods NB, Panagopoulos I, Andersson E, Mikkola H, Fahlman C, Zufferey R, Carlsson L, Trono D, Karlsson S. Lentivirus vector gene expression during ES cell-derived hematopoietic development in vitro.. Journal of virology, 2000.
76. Balogh I, Szôke G, Kárpáti L, Wartiovaara U, Katona E, Komáromi I, Haramura G, Pfliegler G, Mikkola H, Muszbek L. Val34Leu polymorphism of plasma factor XIII: biochemistry and epidemiology in familial thrombophilia.. Blood, 2000.
77. Wartiovaara U, Salven P, Mikkola H, Lassila R, Kaukonen J, Joukov V, Orpana A, Ristimäki A, Heikinheimo M, Joensuu H, Alitalo K, Palotie A. Peripheral blood platelets express VEGF-C and VEGF which are released during platelet activation.. Thrombosis and haemostasis, 1998.
78. Mikkola H, Muszbek L, Laiho E, Syrjälä M, Hämäläinen E, Haramura G, Salmi T, Peltonen L, Palotie A. Molecular mechanism of a mild phenotype in coagulation factor XIII (FXIII) deficiency: a splicing mutation permitting partial correct splicing of FXIII A-subunit mRNA.. Blood, 1997.
79. Mikkola H, Yee VC, Syrjälä M, Seitz R, Egbring R, Petrini P, Ljung R, Ingerslev J, Teller DC, Peltonen L, Palotie A. Four novel mutations in deficiency of coagulation factor XIII: consequences to expression and structure of the A-subunit.. Blood, 1996.
80. Mikkola H, Syrjälä M, Rasi V, Vahtera E, Hämäläinen E, Peltonen L, Palotie A. Deficiency in the A-subunit of coagulation factor XIII: two novel point mutations demonstrate different effects on transcript levels.. Blood, 1994.