title: High proliferative potential colony-forming cell heterogeneity identified using counterflow centrifugal elutriation.
abstract: Murine high proliferative potential colony-forming cells (HPP-CFC) are known to be heterogenous with respect to proliferative capacity and in vitro responsiveness to hematopoietic growth factors. We have separated HPP-CFC into several subpopulations using counterflow centrifugal elutriation. Although HPP-CFC were identified in all of the elutriated fractions of both C3H/HeJ and C57BI/6J bone marrow cells, the distribution of HPP-CFC as well as of colony-forming units-granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) in each fraction differed between these two strains of inbred mice. Six subsets of HPP-CFC were resolved that differed in growth factor responsiveness. A low-density HPP-CFC subpopulation was isolated that was distinct from day-12 spleen colony-forming units (CFU-S12), CFU-GM, and bone marrow stromal cells. This unique subpopulation of HPP-CFC is rate (3% to 9% of total HPP-CFC), appears to be lymphocyte-like in morphology, and behaves the most primitive of the HPP-CFC subsets by requiring multiple hematopoietic growth factors for optimal in vitro cloning. Further characterization of this subpopulation of HPP-CFC will determine the position of these cells in the HPP-CFC heirarchy.
authors.affiliation: Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202-5225.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Yoder
authors.forename: X X
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002469:Cell Separation; D002498:Centrifugation; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000166:cytology; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors