PMID: 8609717Dec 1, 1995Paper

The flt3/flk-2 ligand: receptor distribution and action on murine haemopoietic cell survival and proliferation

Leukemia
J E RaskoN Nicola

Abstract

In this study the distribution and quantitation of the flt3/flk-2 receptor was examined on bone marrow cells and defined haemopoietic subpopulations. Undifferentiated cells expressed the greatest numbers of flt3/flk-2 receptors: 19% of primitive lin-kit+sca-1+ bone marrow cells and 16% of fetal liver lin-aa4.1+ cells exhibited over 15 000 receptors per cell as determined by binding of the radiolabeled cognate ligand (flt3/flk-2 ligand, FL). Moderate binding was demonstrated on early B lymphocyte subsets (4400 receptors per cell) and very low levels were detected on monocytes. Binding was not detected on promyelocytes, myelocytes, promonocytes, metamyelocytes, polymorphonuclear cells, eosinophils or nucleated erythroid cells. FL enhanced the survival of primitive lin kit+sca-1+ cells with an efficacy s with an efficacy equivalent to stem cell factor (SCF). FL stimulated predominantly blast and granulocyte-macrophage colony formation in cultures of bone marrow cells by both direct and indirect mechanisms. Marked synergistic effects of FL with combinations of colony stimulating factors (CSFs) or interleukin-6 occurred in the proliferation of primitive lin-kit+sca-1+ cells, but not lin-kit+sca-1- progenitor cells. Surprisingly, rec...Continue Reading

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