title: Expression of human colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) receptor in murine pluripotent hematopoietic NFS-60 cells induces long-term proliferation in response to CSF-1 without loss of erythroid differentiation potential.
abstract: NFS-60 and FDCP-Mix cells are interleukin-3--dependent multipotent hematopoietic cells that can differentiate in vitro into mature myeloid and erythroid cells. Retrovirus-mediated transfer of the human colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) receptor gene (c-fms) enabled NFS-60 cells but not FDCP-Mix cells to proliferate in response to CSF-1. The phenotype of NFS-60 cells expressing the human CSF-1 receptor (CSF-1R) grown in CSF-1 did not grossly differ from that of original NFS-60 as assessed by cytochemical and surface markers. Importantly, these cells retained their erythroid potentiality. In contrast, a CSF-1-dependent variant of NFS-60, strongly expressing murine CSF-1R, differentiated into monocyte/macrophages upon CSF-1 stimulation and almost totally lost its erythroid potentiality. We also observed that NFS-60 but not FDCP-Mix cells could grow in response to stem cell factor, (SCF), although both cell lines express relatively high amounts of SCF receptors. This suggests that SCF-R and CSF-1R signalling pathways share at least one component that may be missing or insufficiently expressed in FDCP-Mix cells. Taken together, these results suggest that human CSF-1R can use the SCF-R signalling pathway in murine multipotent cells and thereby favor self-renewal versus differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR CNRS no. 106, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Bourette
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mouchiroud
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ouazana
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Morlé
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Godet
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Blanchet
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects*; D002460:Cell Line; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000494:pharmacology; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D016236:Genes, fms; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007700:Kinetics; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051379:Mice; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D007377:Interleukin-3; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004921:Erythropoietin; D012313:RNA; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D004247:DNA; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor