title: Expression of murine CD38 defines a population of long-term reconstituting hematopoietic stem cells.
abstract: Using a monoclonal antibody to murine CD38, we showed that a population of adult bone marrow cells that expressed the markers Sca-1 and c-kit but lacked the lineage markers Mac-1, GR-1, B220, IgM, CD3, CD4, CD8 and CD5 could be subdivided by the expression of CD38. We showed that CD38high c-kit+ Sca-1+, linlow/-cells sorted from adult bone marrow cultured with interleukin-3 (IL-3), IL-6, and kit-L produced much larger colonies in liquid culture at a greater frequency than their CD38low/- counterparts. In addition, we found that CD36low/ - cells contained most of the day-12 colony-forming units-spleen (CFU-S) but were not long-term reconstituting cells, whereas the population that expressed higher levels of CD38 contained few, but significant, day-12 CFU-S and virtually all the long-term reconstituting stem cells. Interestingly, the CD38high Sca-1+ c-kit+ linlow/- cells isolated from day-E14.5 fetal liver were also found to be long-term reconstituting stem cells. This is in striking contrast to human hematopoietic progenitors in which the most primitive hematopoietic cells from fetal tissues lack the expression of CD38. Furthermore, because antibodies to CD38 could functionally replace antibodies to Thy-1.1 in a stem cell purification procedure, the use of anti-CD38 may be more generally applicable to the purification of hematopoietic stem cells from mouse strains that do not express the Thy-1.1 allele.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Stanford Medical School, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Randall
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Lund
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Weissman
mesh_terms: D036541:ADP-ribosyl Cyclase; D051997:ADP-ribosyl Cyclase 1; D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D015703:Antigens, CD; D000943:Antigens, Differentiation / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology; D000950:Antigens, Ly / Q000032:analysis; D015415:Biomarkers; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D019070:Cell Lineage; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000196:embryology; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D051379:Mice; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology; D019009:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit / Q000032:analysis; D011828:Radiation Chimera; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D015703:Antigens, CD; D000943:Antigens, Differentiation; D000950:Antigens, Ly; D015415:Biomarkers; C074650:Ly6a protein, mouse; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D019009:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; D036541:ADP-ribosyl Cyclase; C498154:CD38 protein, human; C498155:Cd38 protein, mouse; D051997:ADP-ribosyl Cyclase 1