title: Synergistic interaction between interleukin-12 and steel factor in support of proliferation of murine lymphohematopoietic progenitors in culture.
abstract: We have investigated the effects of interleukin (IL)-12 (natural killer cell stimulatory factor/cytotoxic lymphocyte maturation factor) on the proliferation of murine myeloid and lymphohematopoietic progenitors in methylcellulose culture. In the presence of erythropoietin (Ep), IL-12 alone failed to support colony formation by mononuclear and enriched marrow cells of normal mice. Steel factor (SF) alone supported primarily formation of granulocyte/macrophage (GM) colony formation. However, the combination of the two cytokines yielded a significant number of multilineage colonies. When tested on marrow cells from 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-treated mice, the combination of IL-12 and SF, but not the single factors, was effective in support of formation of various types of colonies. Approximately 25% of these colonies yielded pre-B-cell colonies when replated in secondary culture containing SF and IL-7, indicating that IL-12 can interact with SF in supporting the development of primitive lymphohematopoietic progenitors. These results demonstrate that IL-12, a cytokine believed to be involved in the development of cell-mediated immune responses, has a wider range of activity, including committed myeloid and multipotent lymphohematopoietic progenitors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hirayama
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Neben
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Donaldson
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Nickbarg
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004357:Drug Synergism; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000633:toxicity; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D018664:Interleukin-12; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007378:Interleukins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D019089:Stem Cell Factor
chemical_list: D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors; D015850:Interleukin-6; D007378:Interleukins; D019089:Stem Cell Factor; D018664:Interleukin-12; D005472:Fluorouracil