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. 1987 Nov;84(21):7691–7695. doi: 10.1073/pnas.84.21.7691

Inhibition of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells of bone marrow by large granular lymphocytes.

T Barlozzari 1, R B Herberman 1, C W Reynolds 1
PMCID: PMC299366  PMID: 3478719

Abstract

Previous studies suggested that natural killer (NK) cells are involved in the regulation of the growth and differentiation of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells. To establish whether the effector cells responsible for the in vivo resistance to bone marrow (BM) transplants and the in vitro inhibition of colony-forming units (CFU) may represent identical or overlapping populations, we used a rat system for syngeneic BM transplantation, with and without the transfer of large numbers of peripheral blood large granular lymphocytes (LGLs). BM reconstitution was measured by the in vivo formation of syngeneic CFU in the spleen (CFU-s). Because of the very low frequency of CFU-s in normal rat BM, we fractionated BM cells in Percoll density gradients, which provided a 2- to 5-fold enrichment in CFU-s in the lower-density fractions. Although these fractions contained less than 10% of the total cells, they contained greater than 75% of the CFU-s and allowed for the transfer of significantly fewer donor cells. At the time of BM transplantation, radiation-resistant asialoganglioside GM1-positive LGLs, with high NK activity, accounted for a significant percentage of the lymphoid cells in the irradiated recipient. The in vivo regulatory role of these cells on engraftment was demonstrated by their depletion (by i.v. injection of small amounts of anti-asialo-GM1 antiserum before BM transplantation), which resulted in a significant increase in the number of CFU-s. Conversely, a 50% inhibition in CFU-s was found when CFU-s-enriched BM fractions were preincubated in vitro with LGLs. Additional experiments, involving selective in vivo depletion of NK cells followed by LGL repopulation, directly demonstrated the involvement of LGLs in the regulation and growth of syngeneic pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells. Our results further support the hypothesis that LGLs are involved directly or via humoral factors in the homeostasis and regulation of hematopoietic stem cell growth and differentiation.

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