title: In vitro expansion of long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells in the presence of immobilized Jagged-1 and early acting cytokines.
abstract: There is an increasing body of evidence that suggests that genes involved in cell fate decisions and pattern formation during development also play a key role in the continuous cell fate decisions made by adult tissue stem cells. Here we show that prolonged in vitro culture (14 days) of murine bone marrow lineage negative cells in medium supplemented with three early acting cytokines (stem cell factor, Flk-2/Flt-3 ligand, thrombopoietin) and with immobilized Notch ligand, Jagged-1, resulted in robust expansion of serially transplantable hematopoietic stem cells with long-term repopulating ability. We found that the absolute number of marrow cells was increased approximately 8 to 14-fold in all cultures containing recombinant growth factors. However, the frequency of high quality stem cells was markedly reduced at the same time, except in cultures containing growth factors and Jagged-1-coated Sepharose-4B beads. The absolute number of hematopoietic cells with long-term repopulating ability was increased approximately 10 to 20-fold in the presence of multivalent Notch ligand. These results support a role for combinatorial effects by Notch and cytokine-induced signaling pathways in regulating hematopoietic stem cell fate and to a potential role for Notch ligand in increasing cell numbers in clinical stem cell transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Stem Cell Biology Unit, National Medical Center, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Zsuzsanna
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kertész
authors.forename: Virág
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vas
authors.forename: Judit
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.forename: Veronika S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Urbán
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pozsonyi
authors.forename: András
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kozma
authors.forename: Katalin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pálóczi
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Uher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002452:Cell Count; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D000072100:Jagged-1 Protein; D008297:Male; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D051880:Receptors, Notch / Q000378:metabolism; D012685:Sepharose / Q000494:pharmacology; D000072099:Serrate-Jagged Proteins; D019089:Stem Cell Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013926:Thrombopoietin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013995:Time
chemical_list: D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; C000606274:Jag1 protein, mouse; D000072100:Jagged-1 Protein; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D051880:Receptors, Notch; D000072099:Serrate-Jagged Proteins; D019089:Stem Cell Factor; C084881:flt3 ligand protein; D012685:Sepharose; D013926:Thrombopoietin