title: Presence of an activity indispensable for the granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating activity of interleukin 3 in bovine serum albumin.
abstract: Media conditioned by an interleukin 3 (IL-3)-producing T-cell line, STIL-3, as well as recombinant mouse IL-3 showed granulocyte/macrophage (GM) colony-stimulating activity in the semi-solid culture medium containing horse serum (HS) or bovine serum, but the activity was not apparent when fetal calf serum (FCS) was used. No such serum-dependency of GM colony formation was observed when abdominal wall conditioned medium or L-cell conditioned medium containing GM colony-stimulating factor was used. Although the levels of albumin and total protein were lower in FCS than HS, increase of FCS concentration did not affect the GM colony-stimulating activity of IL-3. Addition of bovine serum albumin (BSA) preparation to FCS, however, increased the number of GM colonies to the same level as that observed with HS. The levels of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in sera and BSA and the effect on the bone marrow cells from LPS-nonresponsive C3H/HeJ mice indicated that the observed effect of BSA was not due to the contaminating LPS. The activity of BSA was not substituted by IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, IFN-gamma, TNF, NGF or erythropoietin. The present study suggests the presence in BSA of co-factor(s) of IL-3 in stimulating GM colony formation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyashita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aramaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamaki
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002417:Cattle; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000097:blood*; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000166:cytology; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000097:blood*; D006736:Horses / Q000097:blood; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000502:physiology*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000494:pharmacology; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors; D006133:Growth Substances; D007377:Interleukin-3; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor