title: Interleukin-11 stimulates multiple phases of erythropoiesis in vitro.
abstract: Interleukin-11 (IL-11), a pleiotropic cytokine originally isolated from a primate bone marrow stromal cell line, has been shown to stimulate T-cell-dependent B-cell maturation, megakaryopoiesis, and various stages of myeloid differentiation, but to inhibit adipogenesis. Because stromal cells are essential for the maintenance of early hematopoietic progenitor cells in long-term culture, we investigated the effects of IL-11 on multipotent and erythroid precursors from murine bone marrow in vitro in suspension and semisolid cultures. Our results show that in the presence of IL-3 or c-kit ligand (KL), IL-11 has profound stimulatory effects on primitive multilineage hematopoietic progenitors, pre-CFC(multi), as well as on precursors representing various stages of erythroid differentiation observable in vitro, including CFC(multi), BFU-E, and CFU-E. In addition, the combination of KL with IL-11 also stimulated highly proliferative erythroid progenitors that yield remarkable macroscopic erythroblast colonies in culture. These results indicate that IL-11 is likely to play a pivotal role in early hematopoiesis and at multiple stages of erythropoiesis.
authors.affiliation: Preclinical Research, Sandoz Pharma Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: V F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Quesniaux
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fagg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015672:Erythroid Precursor Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D004920:Erythropoiesis / Q000187:drug effects*; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000494:pharmacology; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D017370:Interleukin-11; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007378:Interleukins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051379:Mice; D019089:Stem Cell Factor
chemical_list: D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors; D017370:Interleukin-11; D007377:Interleukin-3; D007378:Interleukins; D019089:Stem Cell Factor; D004921:Erythropoietin