title: Differentiation and functional activity of human eosinophilic cells from an eosinophil HL-60 subline: response to recombinant hematopoietic growth factors.
abstract: We studied the effect of hematopoietic growth factors (granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor [GM-CSF], granulocyte [G]-CSF, interleukin (IL)-1, IL-3, IL-5, IL-6, and macrophage [M]-CSF) on differentiation and functional activity of human eosinophilic HL-60 cells (Eos-HL-60) and compared them with effects on parental HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells. Purified biosynthetic GM-CSF and IL-5 enhanced cell proliferation and induced eosinophilic differentiation in the eosinophilic subline in both liquid and agar cultures. IL-3 and IL-6 stimulated cell proliferation but had no effect on cell differentiation, whereas IL-1 and G-CSF affected neither differentiation nor proliferation of Eos-HL-60 cells under the conditions tested. GM-CSF-, IL-3-, and IL-5-treated Eos-HL-60 cells showed increased O2- production in response to phorbol esters (PMA), enhanced phagocytosis of Candida albicans, and release of the enzymes arylsulfatase, beta-glucuronidase and eosinophil peroxidase (EPO). The degranulation of eosinophils induced by GM-CSF, IL-5, and IL-3 may have relevance to the potential clinical toxicity of these hematopoietins, which also stimulate eosinophilopoiesis. G-CSF had no effect on enzyme release, oxidative metabolism, or phagocytic capacity of Eos-HL-60 cells. IL-5 did not affect proliferation, differentiation, or enzyme release in promyelocytic HL-60 cells. These results indicate the specificity of IL-5 for the eosinophil lineage, confirm the effects of GM-CSF and IL-3 on eosinophilopoiesis and mature eosinophil function in a model system, and indicate the absence of G-CSF and IL-1 stimulation of eosinophils. The Eos-HL-60 line is a useful model for studying human eosinophil responses to cytokines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histology and Cell Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fabian
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lass
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kletter
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Golde
mesh_terms: D002176:Candida albicans; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002460:Cell Line; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000494:pharmacology; D015848:Interleukin-5 / Q000494:pharmacology; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007700:Kinetics; D015473:Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D010544:Peroxidases / Q000378:metabolism; D010587:Phagocytosis / Q000187:drug effects; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors; D007375:Interleukin-1; D007377:Interleukin-3; D015848:Interleukin-5; D015850:Interleukin-6; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D013481:Superoxides; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D010544:Peroxidases