title: Interleukin-11 stimulates multilineage progenitors, but not stem cells, in murine and human long-term marrow cultures.
abstract: Interleukin-11 (IL-11) is a bone marrow microenvironment-derived growth factor with pleiotropic effects on a variety of hematopoietic cells. To more accurately assess the effects of IL-11 on stem and progenitor compartments within the hematopoietic microenvironment (HM), we added recombinant human (rh) IL-11 to human and murine long-term bone marrow cultures (LTMC) and analyzed primitive (high proliferative potential-colony forming cells [HPP-CFC], long-term culture-initiating cells [LTC-IC], and long-term reconstituting stem cells) and progenitor (day 12 colony forming unit-spleen [CFU-S12], colony forming unit-megakaryocyte [CFU-Mk] and colony forming unit-granulocyte/macrophage [CFU-GM]) compartments throughout the duration of the cultures. rhIL-11 (100 ng/mL) added twice weekly resulted in significantly increased nonadherent (NA) cellularity, CFU-GM, and CFU-Mk production in human LTMC. Addition of rhIL-11 to murine LTMC was associated with a 5- to 40-fold increase in CFU-GM and a four- to 20-fold increase in day 12 CFU-S in NA cells. However, IL-11 had no significant effect on total HPP-CFC concentration and decreased the size of the more primitive stem/progenitor compartment as evidenced by both decreased LTC-IC frequency in human LTMC and decreased frequency of long-term reconstituting stem cells in murine LTMC. These data suggest that IL-11 may increase commitment of stem cells into a multipotential progenitor compartment.
authors.affiliation: Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202-5225, USA.
authors.forename: X X
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: Z X
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: X L
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000187:drug effects; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects; D006410:Hematopoiesis / Q000187:drug effects; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D017370:Interleukin-11 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D017370:Interleukin-11