supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan of China(No.2018YFA0107802 to Xiaojian Sun,Nos.2018YFA0107200 and 2018YFA0800203 to Lan Wang);the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81470316 and 81670094 to Xiaojian Sun,No.81972339 to Zhe Bao Wu,Nos.81570122 and 81770205 to Jinyan Huang,Nos.81670122 and 81970150 to Lan Wang);the National Research Center for Translational Medicine(Shanghai)grant(No.NRCTM(SH)-2019-05 to Zhe Bao Wu);the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission-Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant(No.20152506 to Xiaojian Sun);Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Program on Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research(No.2019CXJQ01 to Saijuan Chen and Xiaojian Sun);Innovative Research Team of High-level Local Universities in Shanghai(to Weili Zhao and Xiaojian Sun);the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation;the Shanghai Guangci Translational Medical Research Development Foundation.
The Ly-6 and uPAR(LU)domain-containing proteins represent a large family of cell-surface markers.In particular,mouse Ly-6A/Sca-1 is a widely used marker for various stem cells;however,its human ortholog is missing.In ...