title: Isolation of two early B lymphocyte progenitors from mouse marrow: a committed pre-pre-B cell and a clonogenic Thy-1-lo hematopoietic stem cell.
abstract: Two novel early B lymphocyte precursor populations have been identified by their capacity to differentiate in Whitlock-Witte bone marrow cultures. Cells expressing neither the B lineage antigen B220 nor Thy-1 contain committed B cell precursors which differentiate in short-term culture into pre-B and B cells. The other population expresses low levels of Thy-1, and lacks B220 as well as the T cell markers L3T4 and Lyt-2. The Thy-1+ cells which initiate long-term B cell cultures contain clonogenic B cell precursors at a frequency of 1 in 11, a 100-fold enrichment over unseparated bone marrow. Thy-1+ cells are also highly enriched for myeloid-erythroid precursors (CFU-S). Thy-1+ cells allow long-term survival of lethally irradiated mice and fully reconstitute the hematopoietic system, including T and B lymphocyte compartments. These results indicate that this population (approximately 0.1% of bone marrow) may contain the pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Muller-Sieburg
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Whitlock
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Weissman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000938:Antigen-Presenting Cells / Q000276:immunology; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000032:analysis*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology; D018800:Thy-1 Antigens
chemical_list: D000954:Antigens, Surface; D018800:Thy-1 Antigens