The effects of transforming growth factor ß3 on the growth of highly enriched hematopoietic progenitor cells derived from normal human bone marrow and peripheral blood Journal Article


Authors: Strife, A.; Lambek, C.; Perez, A.; Darzynkiewicz, Z.; Skierski, J.; Gulati, S.; Haley, J. D.; ten Dijke, P.; Iwata, K. K.; Clarkson, B. D.
Article Title: The effects of transforming growth factor ß3 on the growth of highly enriched hematopoietic progenitor cells derived from normal human bone marrow and peripheral blood
Abstract: The effects of transforming growth factor ß3(TGF-ß3) on growth in semisolid cultures of enriched hematopoietic progenitors derived from normal human marrow and blood were evaluated. Conditioned media from the Mo-T cell line (MoCM) were the source of colony-stimulating factors used to optimally stimulate primitive progenitors. To assess whether a proportion of granulocyte/monocyte (CM) progenitors were prevented from cycling, all sizes of GM aggregates were evaluated from 3 to 20 days. The activity of TGF-/33 on the growth of erythroid burstforming units (BFU-E) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming units (CFU-GM) was similar to that observed for TGF-ft. TGF-03 (10, 100, and 1000 pmol/liter), added initially or 72 h after initiation of culture, did not significantly affect the total number of marrow GM aggregates at 3, 7, 14, and 20 days, but TGF-& (1000 pmol/liter), added initially, reduced the total number of blood GM aggregates. This suggests that some blood GM progenitors might be blocked from cycling but that the great majority of marrow GM progenitors are not blocked. Whether TGF-/93 (10, 100, and 1000 pmol/liter) was added initially or after 72 h of stimulation by MoCM, there was a dose-dependent reduction of marrow and blood GM colony size even when the total number of colonies was unaffected. TGF-03 (10, 100, and 1000 pmol/liter), added initially or at 72 h, reduced in a dose-dependent manner the size of marrow and blood-derived BFU-E. I(.1 -,)', (1000 pmol/liter) was more likely to reduce the total number of marrow and blood BFU-E, and this increased sensitivity of the erythroid lineage may prevent the development of this population in colonies derived from multipotential colony-forming unit-granulocyte/ erythroid/monocyte (CFU-GEM). The results suggest that the main effect of TGF-#3 and TGF-ß,is to slow the rate of proliferation of hematopoietic progenitors rather than to prevent them from beginning proliferation. This results in a reduction in colony size which prevents the identification of primitive versus mature progenitor on the basis of standard criteria of colony size. © 1991, American Association for Cancer Research. All rights reserved.
Keywords: cytology; bone marrow cells; cells, cultured; cell division; bone marrow; erythroid precursor cell; transforming growth factor beta; drug effect; blood; cell culture; hematopoietic stem cells; bone marrow cell; hematopoietic stem cell; macrophage; macrophages; granulocyte; erythroid progenitor cells; granulocytes; human; article; support, non-u.s. gov't; support, u.s. gov't, p.h.s.
Journal Title: Cancer Research
Volume: 51
Issue: 18
ISSN: 0008-5472
Publisher: American Association for Cancer Research  
Date Published: 1991-09-15
Start Page: 4828
End Page: 4836
Language: English
PUBMED: 1893375
PROVIDER: scopus
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Notes: Article -- Export Date: 27 September 2019 -- Source: Scopus
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MSK Authors
  1. Bayard Clarkson
    220 Clarkson
  2. Caryl Lambek
    21 Lambek
  3. Annabel   Strife
    41 Strife
  4. Subhash C. Gulati
    129 Gulati