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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6265
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-5-3
pubmed:abstractText
The haemopoietic system has three main compartments: multi-potential stem cells, intermediate stage progenitor cells and mature cells. The availability of simple reproducible culture systems has made possible the characterization and purification of regulators of the progenitor cells, including colony-stimulating factors and interleukins. In contrast, our knowledge of the regulators involved in the control of stem cell proliferation is limited. The steady-state quiescent status of the haemopoietic stem cell compartment is thought to be controlled by locally acting regulatory elements present in the stromal microenvironment, but their purification has been hampered by the lack of suitable culture systems. We have recently developed a novel in vitro colony assay that detects a primitive cell (CFU-A) which has similar proliferative characteristics, in normal and regenerating bone marrow, to the CFU-S (haemopoietic stem cells, as defined by the spleen colony assay) and which responds to CFU-S-specific proliferation regulators. We have now used this assay to purify to homogeneity a macrophage-derived reversible inhibitor of haemopoietic stem cell proliferation (stem cell inhibitor, SCI). Antibody inhibition and sequence data indicate that SCI is identical to a previously described cytokine, macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha), and that SCI/MIP-1 alpha is functionally and antigenically identical to the CFU-S inhibitory activity obtained from primary cultures of normal bone marrow cells. The biological activities of SCI/MIP-1 alpha suggest that it is a primary negative regulator of stem cell proliferation and that it has important therapeutic applications in protecting haemopoietic stem cells from damage during cytotoxic therapies for cancer.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
344
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
442-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Bone Marrow Cells, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Chemokine CCL4, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Colony-Forming Units Assay, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Hematopoietic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Macrophages, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Monokines, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2320111-Transfection
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification and characterization of an inhibitor of haemopoietic stem cell proliferation.
pubmed:affiliation
Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't