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- Title
Expression of Novel Surface Antigens on Early Hematopoietic Cells<sup>a</sup>.
- Authors
BÜHRING, HANS-JÖRG; SEIFFERT, MARTINA; BOCK, THOMAS A.; SCHEDING, STEFAN; THIEL, ANDREAS; SCHEFFOLD, ALEXANDER; KANZ, LOTHAR; BRUGGER, WOLFRAM
- Abstract
A bstract: The purpose of this report is to demonstrate the expression of very recently identified surface antigens on CD34+ and AC133+ bone marrow (BM) cells. Coexpression analysis of AC133 and defined antigens on CD34+ BM cells revealed that the majority of the CD164+, CD135+, CD117+, CD38low, CD33+, and CD71+ cells resides in the AC133+ population. In contrast, most of the CD10+ and CD19+ B cell progenitors and a fraction of the CD71high population are AC133−, indicating that CD34+AC133+ cells are enriched in primitive and myeloid progenitor cells, whereas CD34+AC133− cells mainly consist of B cell and late erythroid progenitors. This corresponds to the highly reduced percentage of CD10+ B cells and the absence of CD71high erythroid progenitors on AC133+ selected BM cells. A portion of 0.2-0.7% of the AC133+ selected cells do not coexpress CD34. These cells are very small and define a uniform CD71−, CD117−, CD10−, CD38low, CD135+, HLA-DRhigh, CD45+ population with unknown delineation. Four color analysis on CD34+CD38− BM cells revealed that virtually all of these primitive cells express AC133. Using an improved liposome-enhanced labeling technique for the staining of weakly expressed antigens, subsets of this population could be identified which express the angiopoietin receptors TIE (67.6%) and TEK (36.8%), the vascular endothelial growth factor receptors FLT1 (7%), FLT4 (3.2%), and KDR (10.4%), or the receptor tyrosine kinases HER-2 (15.4%) and FLT3 (CD135; 77.6%). Our results suggest that the CD34+CD38− population is heterogeneous with respect to the expression of the analyzed receptor tyrosine kinases.
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1999, Vol 872, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08450.x