title: In vitro differentiation of murine Sca-1+Lin- cells into myeloid, B cell and T cell lineages.
abstract: Hematopoietic progenitor cells were shown to be capable of differentiating into myeloid, B cell and T cell lineages. We used a two-step culture system in which enriched murine hematopoietic progenitors in bone marrow were first plated in viscid culture medium containing methylcellulose, erythropoietin (EPO), stem cell factor (SCF) and interleukin (IL)-7. One thousand enriched murine marrow cells formed 53.5 +/- 12.1 (mean +/- SD) primary colonies. Cells from a single blast colony were separated into two aliquots and replated in secondary methylcellulose cultures containing SCF and IL-7 for B cell lineage and SCF, IL-3, G-CSF, GM-CSF and EPO for myeloid lineage. Next, cells from five to ten primary blast colonies were cultured again in embryonal thymus (25 Gy irradiated). One aliquot of blast colonies in a primary culture contained four colony forming units (CFU) of granulocytes, erythroblasts, macrophages and megakaryocytes, eight CFU-granulocytes and macrophages, and 28 BFU-E in a representative secondary myeloid culture. Another aliquot formed a few B cell colonies (2-10) in a secondary B cell culture. B lymphoid colonies were composed of blast-like cells with B-220 antigen. T cells in a secondary T cell culture consisted of 16% L3T4+, 16% CD8+ and 11% CD3+ of bone marrow origin in the thymus. From these results, we concluded that cells in the primary colonies from Sca-1+Lin- hematopoietic stem cells could differentiate into B cell, T cell and myeloid lineages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Anan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Misawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hara
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000950:Antigens, Ly; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003470:Culture Media; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D008297:Male; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D000950:Antigens, Ly; D003470:Culture Media; C074650:Ly6a protein, mouse; D008565:Membrane Proteins