B-LYMPHOID TO GRANULOCYTIC SWITCH DURING HEMATOPOIESIS IN A TRANSGENIC MOUSE STRAIN
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Publication Year 1994-09,Volume 1,Issue #6,Page 517-527
Journal Title
IMMUNITY
Publication Type
Journal Article
Abstract
B-lymphoid and myeloid development are markedly perturbed in a unique transgenic mouse strain, max 41. Pro-B, pre-B, and B lymphocytes were severely reduced but granulocytes were greatly elevated. This phenotype could be adoptively transferred with bone marrow cells. It was not alleviated by bcl-2 or myc transgenes that promote lymphocyte survival or proliferation. Bitransgenic myc/max 41 mice developed pre-B cell lymphoma. An accompanying massive granulocytosis unexpectedly proved to be clonally derived from the pre-B lymphoma cells. These observations suggest that B lymphopoiesis in max 41 mice has been diverted to granulocyte production. Since neither cell type expressed the transgene, this novel lymphomyeloid deviation probably reflects insertional alteration of a hematopoietic regulatory gene.
Publisher
CELL PRESS
Keywords
COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HELIX-ZIPPER PROTEIN; CELLS-INVITRO; SCID MICE; GENE; MYC; DIFFERENTIATION; EXPRESSION; POPULATION; LEUKEMIA
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Creation Date: 1994-09-01 12:00:00
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