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- Title
Establishment of a GM-CSF-dependent megakaryoblastic cell line with the potential to differentiate into an eosinophilic lineage in response to retinoic acids.
- Authors
Ma, Feng; Koike, Kenichi; Higuchi, Tsukasa; Kinoshita, Tatsuya; Takeuchi, Kouichi; Mwamtemi, Hadija Hemed; Sawai, Nobukuni; Kamijo, Takehiko; Shiohara, Masaaki; Horie, Shiro; Kawa, Shigeyuki; Sasaki, Yumiko; Hidaka, Eiko; Yamagami, Osamu; Yamashita, Tetsuji; Koike, Tadashi; Ishii, Eizaburo; Komiyama, Atsushi
- Abstract
We recently established a human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-dependent cell line (HML) from colony-constituent cells grown by peripheral blood cells of a patient with acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia. The HML cells possessed megakaryocytic features, as determined by cytochemical, electron microscopic and flow cytometric analysis. In the present study we examined the effects of retinoic acid (RA) on the development of HML cells. All-trans-RA, 13-cis-RA and 9-cis-RA at 10-8 mol/l to 10-5 mol/l inhibited the GM-CSF-dependent cell growth. Some of the RA-treated cells contained prominent azurophilic granules and were positive for peroxidase. They also reacted with Biebrich scarlet, Luxol fast blue and a monoclonal antibody against eosinophil peroxidase. In addition, exposure to RA increased the frequency and the intensity of major basic protein-positive cells. However, eosinophil-derived neurotoxin and eosinophil cationic protein were not detected or were only detected at a low level in the lysates of the HML cells treated with RA. Although IL-5 alone could not stimulate cell growth, the addition of IL-5 to the cultures containing stem cell factor + all-trans-RA was required for the expression of the eosinophilic phenotype. These results suggest that the HML cell line is a megakaryoblastic cell line with the potential to differentiate into the eosinophilic lineage. HML cells may be a useful model for elucidating the eosinophilic differentiation programme.
- Subjects
GRANULOCYTE-macrophage colony-stimulating factor; TRETINOIN
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 1998, Vol 100, Issue 2, p427
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00553.x