Cell Growth & Differentiation, Vol 5, Issue 10 1119-1126, Copyright © 1994 by American Association of Cancer Research

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Coordinate expression of the lineage-specific growth factor colony-stimulating factor (CSF)-1 and its receptor selectively promotes macrophage maturation during differentiation of multipotential progenitor cells

F Heusohn, U Pohler, T Decker, U Just, W Ostertag, ML Lohmann-Matthes and M Baccarini
Department of Immunobiology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Molecular Biology, Hannover, Federal Republic of Germany.

The multipotent hematopoietic precursor line A4GMV#2, derived by infection of FDCP-mix cells with a retroviral vector expressing the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (CSF) gene, proliferates continuously in interleukin 3 and presents the unique advantage of synchronous granulocyte and macrophage differentiation upon interleukin 3 withdrawal. Using this system, we showed previously that the mRNAs for lineage-specific receptors (granulocyte-CSF receptors, CSF-1 receptors, and Erythropoietin receptors) and ligands (granulocyte-CSF and CSF-1) are up-regulated during myeloid maturation. Here we address the specific question of the regulation of the expression of CSF-1 and its receptor and of their relevance to macrophage differentiation. Both genes were transcribed with equal efficiency in undifferentiated and differentiating cells. CSF-1 mRNA was detected in undifferentiated cells and increased slightly in the early phases of differentiation. CSF-1 receptor mRNA, absent in undifferentiated cells, accumulated early in differentiation (24 h) and remained constant thereafter. The production of both proteins, detected later during the differentiation of A4GMV#2 cells and of bone marrow-derived myeloid precursors, was therefore controlled at the posttranscriptional level. CSF-1 was produced by cells of the macrophage lineage and accumulated in mature phagocytes. A neutralizing anti-CSF-1 serum selectively impaired macrophage differentiation of A4GMV#2 cells and, most significantly, of primary myeloid precursors. These data indicate that CSF-1 and its receptor interact productively during differentiation and that the resulting autocrine stimulation selectively promotes macrophage maturation.

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