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Resolution and characterization of pro-B and pre-pro-B cell stages in normal mouse bone marrow
- Source :
- The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 1991
- Publisher :
- Rockefeller University Press, 1991.
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Abstract
- We have resolved B220+ IgM- B-lineage cells in mouse bone marrow into four fractions based on differential cell surface expression of determinants recognized by S7 (leukosialin, CD43), BP-1, and 30F1 (heat stable antigen). Functional differences among these fractions can be correlated with Ig gene rearrangement status. The largest fraction, lacking S7, consists of pre-B cells whereas the others, expressing S7, include B lineage cells before pre-B. These S7+ fractions, provisionally termed Fr. A, Fr. B, and Fr. C, can differentiate in a stromal layer culture system. Phenotypic alteration during such culture suggests an ordering of these stages from Fr. A to Fr. B to Fr. C and thence to S7- pre-B cells. Using polymerase chain reaction amplification with pairs of oligonucleotide primers for regions 5' of JH1, DFL16.1, and Jk1, we find that the Ig genes of Fr. A are in germline configuration, whereas Fr. B and C are pro-B cell stages with increasing D-J rearrangement, but no V-D-J. Finally, functional analysis demonstrates that the proliferative response to IL-7, an early B lineage growth factor, is restricted to S7+ stages and, furthermore, that an additional, cell contact-mediated signal is essential for survival of Fr. A.
- Subjects :
- Stromal cell
Sialoglycoproteins
Cellular differentiation
Molecular Sequence Data
Immunology
Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain
Biotin
Bone Marrow Cells
Biology
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Mice
Antigens, CD
Bone Marrow
medicine
Animals
Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Light Chain
Immunology and Allergy
Cells, Cultured
B cell
B-Lymphocytes
CD43
Leukosialin
Base Sequence
Cell Membrane
Receptor editing
Cell Differentiation
Phycoerythrin
DNA
Articles
Gene rearrangement
Cell cycle
Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Molecular biology
Peptide Fragments
Phenotype
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cell culture
Antigens, Surface
Female
Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15409538 and 00221007
- Volume :
- 173
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f71401511c74dddba2c340458729d6fa
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.173.5.1213