Colony-stimulating factor-1 promotes clonogenic growth of normal murine colonic crypt epithelial cells in vitro.
The intestinal epithelium is a continuously renewing tissue. In the colon, stem cells are maintained at the base of highly organized crypts, where they undergo asymmetric division and give rise to daughter cells that proliferate and migrate up the crypt as they differentiate, then become senescent and are finally shed into the intestinal lumen. The growth factor requirements of fetal and prenatal colon cells for colony formation and that influence the establishment of cell lines from Immorto-mouse (Charles River, Wilmington, MA) transgenic embryos were explored. Single cell suspensions were isolated and cultured in a large range of growth factor combinations and conditions to determine their growth properties in soft agar. We report an important advance in the culture of mouse colonocytes by using macrophage colony-stimulating factor (CSF-1) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). A substantial proportion of colonies grown under low oxygen tension in the presence of CSF-1 and GM-CSF express intestinal epithelial A33 antigen, have the expected gene expression profile, including c-fms and transcription factor c-myb, and show an appropriate epithelial cell morphology and undetectable CD45. Confocal microscopy on isolated crypts displays basolateral expression of c-Fms and E-cadherin on most epithelial cells. Fetal colon cultures from the Immorto-mouse with CSF-1 produced rapid outgrowth and readily established cell lines, in contrast to cultures without CSF-1. These observations have implications for the understanding of colon epithelial development and recovery following cytotoxic damage as well as providing a basis for the observation that some colon (and other epithelial) tumor cells respond to CSF-1 and GM-CSF.
Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Robert G
RG
Ramsay
Suzanne J
SJ
Micallef
Brenda
B
Williams
Sally
S
Lightowler
Elizabeth
E
Vincan
Joan K
JK
Heath
Theo
T
Mantamadiotis
Ivan
I
Bertoncello
D000818:Animals; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003106:Colon / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D017493:Leukocyte Common Antigens / Q000096:biosynthesis; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D020598:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myb / Q000096:biosynthesis; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000096:biosynthesis
C504395:Gpa33 protein, mouse; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D020598:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myb; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D017493:Leukocyte Common Antigens