Two distinct types of murine blast colony-forming cells are multipotential hematopoietic precursors
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Publication Year 2008-11-25,Volume 105,Issue #47,Page 18501-18506
Journal Title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Publication Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Two types of blast colonies can be stimulated to develop in semisolid agar cultures of murine bone marrow cells. Typically, these are either multicentric colonies stimulated by stem cell factor (SCF) plus interleukin-6 (IL-6) or dispersed colonies stimulated by Flt3 ligand (FL) plus IL-6. Both types of blast colony-forming cells (BL-CFCs) can generate large numbers of lineage-committed granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells and exhibit some capacity for self-generation and the formation of eosinophil and megakaryocyte progenitor cells. However, the two populations of BL-CFCs are largely distinct and partially separable by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and are distinguished by differing capacity to form granulocyte-committed progeny. Both types of BL-CFCs can generate dendritic cells and small numbers of lymphocytes but the FL-responsive BL-CFCs have a greater capacity to form both B and T lymphocytes. Both types of blast colonies offer remarkable opportunities to analyze multilineage commitment at a clonal level in vitro.
Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
Keywords
blast colonies ; T and B lymphocytes
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