title: Purification and characterization of a human erythrocyte-derived growth factor with a wide target cell spectrum.
abstract: A cell extract from human erythrocytes promoted the growth of a wide variety of cell types, namely human and mouse myeloid cells, human and mouse T cells, human B cells, human melanoma cells, mouse transformed fibroblast cells, mouse mastocytoma cells, human lung fibroblast cells, and mouse bone marrow fibroblast/stroma-like cells. The growth-promoting activity was acid- and heat-labile and sensitive to proteases, indicating the proteinaceous nature of the molecule. The activity was also lost upon exposure to 2-mercaptoethanol. The novel growth-promoting factor, termed basic growth factor because of its fundamental effect and a wide target cell spectrum, was purified by sequential anion-exchange, hydrophobic, gel filtration, hydroxylapatite, and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatographies. The purified factor has an apparent molecular mass of 53 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing and nonreducing conditions. The factor migrated at 270 kDa on native gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Therefore, the factor consists of a homopolymer of a single polypeptide chain. The purified factor promoted the growth of the same cell types as the cell extract, except for bone marrow cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hygienic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Onozaki
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008970:Molecular Weight
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D006133:Growth Substances