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. 1995 May 23;92(11):4967–4971. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.11.4967

Regulated production of a pleiotropic cytokine-platelet-derived growth factor--by differentiating erythroid cells in vitro and in vivo.

J C Keutzer 1, A J Sytkowski 1
PMCID: PMC41828  PMID: 7761433

Abstract

Erythroid progenitor growth in vitro is stimulated by exogenous platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). We now report that both normal and transformed erythroid progenitor cells produce authentic PDGF in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, this production is highly regulated during erythropoiesis. Addition of soluble lysates from Rauscher murine erythroleukemia cells--an erythropoietin-responsive model progenitor cell line--to quiescent BALB/c 3T3 fibroblasts resulted in a mitogenic response identical to that observed with the addition of authentic recombinant PDGF. Polyclonal and monoclonal anti-PDGF antibodies immunoabsorbed 50-100% of this activity. Induction of Rauscher cell differentiation in vitro with dimethyl sulfoxide or erythropoietin for 48-72 hr markedly upregulated PDGF production by 17- to 18-fold and 14- to 38-fold, respectively. Importantly, stimulation of normal erythropoiesis in vivo in mice treated either with phenylhydrazine or with erythropoietin increased PDGF levels in the spleen by 11- to 48-fold and 20- to 34-fold, respectively. These results strongly suggest a role for erythroid cell-derived PDGF in normal erythropoiesis and provide documentation of the regulated production of a pleiotropic cytokine by erythroid cells.

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