The early phase of engraftment after murine blood cell transplantation is mediated by hematopoietic stem cells
AUTOR(ES)
Zijlmans, J. Mark J. M.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Blood cell transplantation is largely replacing bone marrow transplantation because engraftment is more rapid. This accelerated engraftment is thought to be mediated by relatively mature committed hematopoietic progenitor cells. Herein, we have used a modified rhodamine (Rho) staining procedure to identify and purify Rho+/++ (dull/bright) and Rho− (negative) subpopulations of hematopoietic progenitor cells in murine cytokine-mobilized blood. The Rho+/++ cell population contained >99% of committed progenitor cells with in vitro colony-forming ability. The Rho− cell population contained the majority of hematopoietic stem cells with in vivo marrow repopulating ability. The rate of hematopoietic reconstitution was identical in recipients of grafts containing only purified Rho− stem cells or purified Rho− stem cells in combination with large numbers of Rho+/++ committed progenitor cells. In contrast, transplantation of 3-fold more hematopoietic stem cells resulted in accelerated reconstitution, indicating that the reconstitution rate was determined by the absolute numbers of Rho− stem cells in the graft. In addition, we observed a 5- to 8-fold reduced frequency of the subset of hematopoietic stem cells with long-term repopulating ability in cytokine-mobilized blood in comparison to steady-state bone marrow. Our results indicate that hematopoietic stem cells and not committed progenitor cells mediate early hematopoietic reconstitution after blood cell transplantation and that relative to bone marrow, the frequency of stem cells with long-term repopulating ability is reduced in mobilized blood.
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