title: Direct proliferative actions of stem cell factor on murine bone marrow cells in vitro: effects of combination with colony-stimulating factors.
abstract: Stem cell factor (SCF), the ligand for the c-kit protooncogene product, was able to stimulate blast cell and granulocytic colony formation by precursors from normal murine bone marrow. The blast cell colonies contained a high content of progenitor cells able to form macrophage and/or granulocyte colonies. Clone transfer studies, the secondary culture of colony cells, and the culture of populations freed of accessory cells all indicated a direct proliferative action of SCF. SCF receptors were present in high numbers on blast cells and in lower numbers on immature granulocytic, monocytic, and eosinophilic cells. Combination of SCF with granulocyte, granulocyte-macrophage, or multipotential colony-stimulating factors, but not macrophage colony-stimulating factor, resulted in enhancement of colony size. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor enhanced cell proliferation initiated by SCF, but not vice-versa, and resulted in a 10-fold increase in colony cell numbers and a 7-fold increase in progenitor cells in blast colonies. No evidence was obtained that SCF, alone or in combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, could stimulate self-generation by blast colony-forming cells.
authors.affiliation: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Metcalf
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Nicola
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004357:Drug Synergism; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D007700:Kinetics; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D019089:Stem Cell Factor
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D019089:Stem Cell Factor