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PubMed1995

Induction of differentiation into monocyte/macrophage cell lineage of a human eosinophilic leukaemia cell line EoL-1 by simultaneous stimulation with tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interferon-gamma.

Human myeloid leukaemia cell lines have been shown to differentiate into distinct cell lineages in vitro in response to several differentiation-inducing agents. A human eosinophilic leukaemia cell line, EoL-1, has been shown to differentiate into mature eosinophilic granulocytes by treatment with the culture supernatant of a human T-cell line, HIL-3. In this study we have studied whether the EoL-1 cell line has potential to differentiate into cell lineage other than eosinophils. We found that EoL-1 cells cultured in the presence of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha (10 u/ml) and interferon (IFN)-gamma (1000 u/ml) for 2-4 d differentiated into macrophage-like cells in morphology, and expressed CD14 antigen on their cell surface. It is possible that the small subpopulation of EoL-1 cells which contains non-specific esterase (NSE) activity may be preferentially differentiated by TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma. To clarify this issue, we have cloned the EoL-1 cell line and obtained NSE negative and positive sublines. Both EoL-1 sublines differentiated into monocyte/macrophage-like cells, because: (a) EoL-1 sublines were induced to express CD14 antigen, and (b) they attached firmly to the plastic wells; (c) after differentiation they became strongly positive for NSE staining, and secreted TNF-alpha in response to the stimulation with lipopolysaccharide; and (d) they exhibited potent phagocytic activity. Therefore, we found that the EoL-1 cell line has the ability to differentiate not only into mature eosinophilic cells but also into monocyte/macrophage cell lineage, suggesting that EoL-1 cells represent immature cells with ability to differentiate into multiple cell lineages.

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PubMed2001

MicroSAGE analysis of 2,353 expressed genes in a single cell-derived colony of undifferentiated human mesenchymal stem cells reveals mRNAs of multiple cell lineages.

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from the bone marrow of adult organisms are capable of differentiating into adipocytes, chondrocytes, myoblasts, osteoblasts, and hematopoiesis-supporting stroma. We recently demonstrated that MSCs also adopt glial cell fates when transplanted into the developing central nervous system and hence can produce tissue elements derived from a separate embryonic layer. Despite these remarkable properties, it has been difficult to establish specific criteria to characterize MSCs. Using a modified protocol for micro-serial analysis of gene expression, we cataloged 2,353 unique genes expressed by a single cell-derived colony of undifferentiated human MSCs. This analysis revealed that the MSC colony simultaneously expressed transcripts characteristic of various mesenchymal cell lineages including chondrocytes, myoblasts, osteoblasts, and hematopoiesis-supporting stroma. Therefore, the profile of expressed transcripts reflects the developmental potential of the cells. Additionally, the MSC colony expressed mRNAs characteristic of endothelial, epithelial and neuronal cell lineages, a combination that provides a unique molecular signature for the cells. Other expressed transcripts included various products involved in wound repair as well as several neurotrophic factors. A total of 268 novel transcripts were also identified, one of which is the most abundantly expressed mRNA in MSCs. This study represents the first extensive gene expression analysis of MSCs and as such reveals new insight into the biology, ontogeny, and in vivo function of the cells.

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PubMed1992

Stomatal patterning in Tradescantia: an evaluation of the cell lineage theory.

The cell lineage theory, which explains stomatal patterning in monocot leaves as a consequence of orderly divisions, was studied in Tradescantia. Data were collected to test the theory at three levels of organization: the individual stoma; stomata distributed in one dimension, in linear fashion along cell files; and stomata apportioned in two dimensions, across the length and breadth of the leaf. In an attempt to watch the patterning process through regeneration, stomata in all visible stages of development were laser ablated. The results showed that the formation of stomatal initials was highly regular, and measurements of stomatal frequency and spacing showed that pattern was determined near the basal meristem when the stomatal initials arose. Following the origin of initials, the pattern was not readjusted by division of epidermal cells. Stomatal initials were not committed when first present and a small percentage of them arrested. The arrested cells, unlike stomata, were consistently positioned in cell files midway between a developed pair of stomata. At the one-dimensional level of pattern, stomata in longitudinal files were separated by a variable number of epidermal cells and the frequency of these separations was not random. The sequential spacing of stomata also was not random, and stomata separated by single epidermal cells were grouped into more short and long series than expected by chance. The stomatal pattern across the width of the leaf resulted from cell files free of stomata which alternated with cell files containing stomata, but not with a recurring periodicity. Files lacking stomata were found only over longitudinal vascular bundles. Laser ablations of developing stomata did not disrupt the pattern in nearby cells or result in stomatal regeneration. We conclude that the cell lineage theory explains pattern as an individual stomatal initial arises from its immediate precursor and satisfactorily accounts for the minimum spacing of stomata in a cell file, i.e., stoma-epidermal cell-stoma. However, the theory does not explain the collective stomatal pattern along the cell files, at the one-dimensional level of patterning. Nor does the theory account for the for the two-dimensional distribution of stomata in which regions devoid of stomata alternate with regions enriched with stomata, but not in a highly regular nor haphazard manner. We suggest that the grouping of epidermal cells and stomata separated by single epidermal cells in cell files may result from cell lineages at a specific position in the cell cycle as they traverse the zone where stomatal initials form.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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PubMed2006

Regeneration of the intestinal epithelia: regulation of bone marrow-derived epithelial cell differentiation towards secretory lineage cells.

The intestinal epithelia consists of four lineages of differentiated cells, all of which arise from stem cells residing in the intestinal crypt. For proper regeneration from epithelial damage, both expansion of the epithelial cell number and appropriate regulation of lineage differentiation from the remaining stem cells are thought to be required. In a series of studies, we have shown that bone-marrow derived cells could promote the regeneration of damaged epithelia in the human intestinal tract. Donor-derived epithelial cells substantially repopulated the gastrointestinal tract of bone-marrow transplant recipients during epithelial regeneration after graft-versus-host disease. Furthermore, precise analysis of epithelial cell lineages revealed that during epithelial regeneration, secretory lineage epithelial cells that originated from bone-marrow significantly increased in number. These findings may lead to a novel therapy to repair damaged intestinal epithelia using bone marrow cells, and provide an alternative therapy for refractory inflammatory bowel diseases.

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PubMed1985

Cell-lineage antigens of the stem cell-megakaryocyte-platelet lineage are associated with the platelet IIb-IIIa glycoprotein complex.

The stem cell-platelet lineage is uniquely defined by platelet cell-lineage antigens. These antigens are present on all stem cells measured by the spleen colony assay and become restricted to the platelet cell lineage as differentiation proceeds. In this study, anti-platelet serum (APS) has been used to identify cells in the bone marrow that express platelet cell-lineage antigens and to identify platelet cell surface molecules expressing these antigens. Anti-platelet IgG extensively absorbed with brain, thymus, and peritoneal cells bound selectively to stem cells, megakaryocyte progenitor cells (Mk-CFC), and megakaryocytes in CBA mouse bone marrow and to blood platelets. No other hemopoietic cell type, tissue, cell line, or tumor cell bound significant amounts of antibody against platelet cell-lineage antigens as determined by ability to absorb the anti-stem cell activity in APS. Studies with lactoperoxidase-labeled platelets showed that two major iodinated proteins of Mr = 114,000 and 138,000 were immunoprecipitated with APS and with antiserum that had been extensively absorbed. These proteins correspond to the platelet IIb-IIIa glycoprotein complex, which is known to express receptors for collagen and fibrinogen, molecules known to influence hemopoietic cell proliferation and tumor cell growth. A panel of six monoclonal antibodies against human IIb-IIIa inhibited spleen colony formation by 17% to 100%, J15 and A5.15 also being cytotoxic for granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells and Mk-CFC. Other platelet monoclonal antibodies did not inhibit spleen colony formation. Although APS inhibited fibrinogen binding to platelets and platelet aggregation, these activities were greatly reduced with absorbed antiserum. Furthermore, fibrinogen treatment of bone marrow did not block the anti-stem cell activity in APS. Thus the evidence is consistent with expression of platelet cell-lineage antigens on the platelet IIb-IIIa glycoprotein complex at a site removed from the fibrinogen binding site.

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PubMed1984

Autonomous muscle cell differentiation in partial ascidian embryos according to the newly verified cell lineages.

Recent analysis of cell lineages in ascidian embryos by the intracellular injection of a tracer enzyme has clearly demonstrated that muscle cells are derived not only from the B4.1-cell pair of the eight-cell stage embryo, as has hitherto been believed, but also from both the b4.2- and A4.1-cell pairs (H. Nishida and N. Satoh, 1983, Dev. Biol. 99, 382-394). In order to reexamine the developmental autonomy in muscle lineage cells, the B4.1 pair was isolated from the eight-cell stage embryo. The progeny cells of the B4.1 pair, as well as those of the six other blastomeres, were then allowed to develop in isolation into partial embryos. Autonomous muscle cell differentiation not only in partial embryos originating from the B4.1 cells but also in those from the six other blastomeres was substantiated by (a) occurrence of localized histospecific muscle acetylcholinesterase and (b) development of myofibrils. These results support the validity of the recent cell lineage study and confirmed the self-differentiation potency of muscle lineage cells in ascidian embryos according to the newly verified cell lineages.

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PubMed1989

Strain differences in the early development of the thymus-dependent cells: precocity of T lineage cells in AKR mice as compared to those in C3H mice.

Early development of T lineage cells were compared between AKR and C3H mice by using two experimental strategies--neonatal thymectomy (NTx) and bone marrow transplantation (BMT)--between these two strains of mice. After NTx, AKR mice developed less wasting disease and showed better maintenance of several T cell functions. In addition, the response of neonatal spleen cells to PHA and ConA was much greater in AKR mice than in C3H mice. Further, when AKR mice were used as recipients of BMT, cell numbers recovered from thymuses between 2 and 7 weeks after reconstitution were consistently much greater (about 10 times greater) than those from chimeras where C3H mice were used as recipients, regardless of the donor strains of bone marrow cells. However, 4 weeks after BMT the proliferative responses to ConA were consistently higher in the donor-derived thymocytes from chimeras where AKR mice were used as bone marrow donors than in those from chimeras in which C3H were donors. The present findings suggest that these differences may be attributed to characteristics of recipient microenvironment (e.g., thymic stroma) which maintain developing thymocytes and supply them to the peripheral lymphoid tissue. Alternatively the differences may to some degree also be attributable to characteristics of the thymic progenitors themselves, which may determine the rates of maturation of thymocyte functions.

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PubMed1984

Assignment of human natural killer (NK)-like cells to the T cell lineage. Single allospecific T cell clones lyse specific or NK-sensitive target cells via distinct recognition structures.

The aim of the present study was to define the cell lineage of mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC)-induced natural killer (NK) effector cells. Human MLC cells were plated under limiting microculture conditions in the presence of irradiated spleen cells and interleukin 2-containing supernatant. After 18 days, microcultures were scored for proliferation and for cytolytic activity against specific lymphoblasts and NK-sensitive K562 target cells. About 1 in 7 and 1 in 5 proliferating microcultures had specific or NK-like cytolytic activity, respectively. Moreover, several microcultures exhibited dual (specific and NK-like) cytolytic activity, even when they had been established at relatively low numbers of responding cells/well (0.5-0.25) to ensure a high probability of monoclonality. Direct evidence for the existence of cytolytic effector cells with dual activity was achieved by using clones derived from single MLC T cells by micromanipulation. Out of 26 cytolytic clones so derived, 16 exhibited specific cytolytic activity, whereas 22 lysed K562 target cells. More interestingly, 12 of these 26 clones were active against both types of target cells. Only one of these clones was able to lyse autologous or unrelated target cells. In contrast, all such clones lysed the NK-sensitive cell lines G11, MOLT-4, Raji, Daudi, Chang and T-24. Addition of saturating amounts of B9-4 monoclonal antibody in the lytic assays resulted in the inhibition of the specific cytolysis, but not the NK-like activity of clones with dual cytolytic activity. It thus appears that (a) alloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes can mediate both specific and NK-like cytolysis and (b) two independent recognition structures are involved in this dual activity.

Cell Differentiation↗

PubMed2000

Adult insulin- and glucagon-producing cells differentiate from two independent cell lineages.

To analyze cell lineage in the pancreatic islets, we have irreversibly tagged all the progeny of cells through the activity of Cre recombinase. Adult glucagon alpha and insulin beta cells are shown to derive from cells that have never transcribed insulin or glucagon, respectively. Also, the beta-cell progenitors, but not alpha-cell progenitors, transcribe the pancreatic polypeptide (PP) gene. Finally, the homeodomain gene PDX1, which is expressed by adult beta-cells, is also expressed by alpha-cell progenitors. Thus the islet alpha- and beta-cell lineages appear to arise independently during ontogeny, probably from a common precursor.

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PubMed2006

BMP and FGF regulatory pathways control cell lineage diversification of heart valve precursor cells.

The atrioventricular heart valve leaflets and chordae tendineae are composed of diverse cell lineages and highly organized extracellular matrices that share characteristics with cartilage and tendon cell types in the limb buds and somites. During embryonic chicken valvulogenesis, aggrecan and sox9, characteristic of cartilage cells, are observed in the AV valve leaflets, in contrast to tendon-associated genes scleraxis and tenascin, present in the chordae tendineae. In the limb buds and somites, cartilage cell lineage differentiation is regulated by BMP2, while FGF4 controls tendon cell fate. The ability of BMP2 and FGF4 to induce similar patterns of gene expression in heart valve precursor cells was examined. In multiple assays of cells from prefused endocardial cushions, BMP2 is sufficient to activate Smad1/5/8 phosphorylation and induce sox9 and aggrecan expression, while FGF4 treatment increases phosphorylated MAPK (dpERK) signaling and promotes expression of scleraxis and tenascin. However, these treatments do not alter differentiated lineage gene expression in valve progenitors from fused cushions of older embryos. Together, these studies define regulatory pathways of AV valve progenitor cell diversification into leaflets and chordae tendineae that share inductive interactions and differentiation phenotypes with cartilage and tendon cell lineages.

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PubMed1991

Cell lineages and oval cell progenitors in rat liver development.

We determined whether the formation of the hepatic primordium in the rat is associated with the expression of liver-specific markers. Further, we examined the origin of intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts and tried to establish whether there are cell types in the developing liver that might correspond to "stem-like" cells ("oval cells") that proliferate during carcinogenesis and toxic injury in adult livers. Using in situ hybridization and immunohistochemical methods, we show that alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) mRNA is detected in cells of the ventral foregut at 10.5 days of development and that the protein is first detected 1 day later. Thus, AFP transcription occurs before liver morphogenesis, and translation of the protein is first detected when liver cords are being formed, indicating that AFP expression in endodermal cells signals their commitment toward the liver lineage. Although albumin is considered a trait of differentiated hepatocytes, its mRNA was first detected just 1 day later than the AFP message. An analysis of the expression of lineage-specific cytokeratins (cytokeratins 7, 9, 18, and 19), surface markers, and histochemical determination of gamma-glutamyl transferase activity and glycogen revealed that (a) hepatoblasts undergo gradual maturation throughout liver development, (b) AFP- and albumin-containing hepatoblasts gave rise to intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts, and (c) hepatoblasts forming primitive intrahepatic bile ducts during liver development have markers similar to those expressed by stem-like cells that proliferate during liver carcinogenesis.

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PubMed1996

Identification of a committed precursor for the mast cell lineage.

Mast cells originate from hematopoietic stem cells, but the mast cell-committed precursor has not been identified. In the study presented here, a cell population in murine fetal blood that fulfills the criteria of progenitor mastocytes was identified. It is defined by the phenotype Thy-1loc-Kithi, contains cytoplasmic granules, and expresses RNAs encoding mast cell-associated proteases but lacks expression of the high-affinity immunoglobulin E receptor. Thy-1loc-Kithi cells generated functionally competent mast cells at high frequencies in vitro but lacked developmental potential for other hematopoietic lineages. When transferred intraperitoneally, this population reconstituted the peritoneal mast cell compartment of genetically mast cell-deficient W/Wv mice to wild-type levels.

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PubMed2006

Characteristics of rat bone marrow cells differentiated into a liver cell lineage and dynamics of the transplanted cells in the injured liver.

BACKGROUND: Bone marrow cells (BMCs) have been shown to differentiate into a liver cell lineage, but little is known about their dynamics following transplantation. BMCs were cultured to investigate the expression of liver-specific genes in vitro and transplanted into in vivo liver-injury models to elucidate their dynamics in the liver. METHODS: The mRNA expression of various liver-specific genes in BMCs cocultured with hepatocytes was analyzed using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. BMCs from transgenic rats expressing green fiuorescent protein were transplanted into the spleen of rat liver-injury models induced with 2-acetylaminofiuorene (2-AAF) or carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). BMCs were also transplanted directly into livers treated with CCl4 to determine which route is better for transplantation. RESULTS: BMCs differentiated into a liver cell lineage in vitro and expressed mRNAs consistent with mature hepatocytes, including albumin. The transplanted BMCs were found in the liver in the CCl4-induced injury model, but not in the 2-AAF-induced model. The hepatocyte growth factor and fibroblast growth factor mRNA levels in the liver were significantly higher in the CCl4-induced model than in the 2-AAF-induced model. Migration of BMCs to the liver was more effective following injection into the liver, rather than into the spleen. CONCLUSIONS: Cultured BMCs differentiated into a liver cell lineage are a potential source for cell transplantation. Transplantation is successful in the severely injured liver with a high level of expression of mRNAs for growth factors. Injection of BMCs directly into the liver is the preferred route of administration.

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PubMed1991

Microinjection of fluorescent tracers to study neural cell lineages.

The examination of cell lineages is an important step towards understanding the developmental events that specify the various cell types in the organism. The mechanisms that control which cell types are formed, their locations, and their numbers remain unknown. Analyses of cell lineage in the frog neural retina have revealed that individual precursors are multipotent and are capable of producing almost any combination of cell types. In addition to giving rise to a wide range of phenotypes, the precursors can give rise to a wide range of clone sizes. Cell lineage studies in other systems indicate that some precursors are multipotent, like those in the retina, while others appear to produce a more restricted range of descendants, perhaps even a single phenotype. These differences in the developmental potential of precursor cells suggest that the nervous system uses several strategies for producing its many cell types. Investigation of these strategies, at the cellular and molecular level, requires more than a description of the normal cell lineages. We are now exploiting the frog neural retina to perform the experimental manipulations needed to elucidate these strategies.

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PubMed2006

Th17: an effector CD4 T cell lineage with regulatory T cell ties.

The naive CD4 T cell is a multipotential precursor with defined antigen recognition specificity but substantial plasticity for development down distinct effector or regulatory lineages, contingent upon signals from cells of the innate immune system. The range of identified effector CD4 T cell lineages has recently expanded with description of an IL-17-producing subset, called Th17, which develops via cytokine signals distinct from, and antagonized by, products of the Th1 and Th2 lineages. Remarkably, Th17 development depends on the pleiotropic cytokine TGF-beta, which is also linked to regulatory T cell development and function, providing a unique mechanism for matching CD4 T cell effector and regulatory lineage specification. Here, we review Th17 lineage development, emphasizing similarities and differences with established effector and regulatory T cell developmental programs that have important implications for immune regulation, immune pathogenesis, and host defense.

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PubMed2002

Germ cell lineage from a single blastomere at 8-cell stage in shiro-uo (ice goby).

Shiro-uo (ice goby; teleost fish), Leucopsarion petersii, shows a unique cleavage pattern characterized by two tires of blastomeres at 8-cell stage, like that of echinoderm and amphibian embryo. Such a pattern is suitable to isolation and cell lineage experiments. In this study, cell lineage of germ-line was traced by histological observation and cell labelling experiment at the 8-cell stage. Primordial germ cells (PGCs) were first detected histologically at the 10-somite stage, and migrated to gonadal anlage at 10 days post-fertilization, through usual way described in other teleost species. When a single blastomere was labelled with tracer dye at 8-cell stage, both upper and lower tires generated labelled PGCs at gonadal anlage although upper tires occasionally. This result suggests that all blastomeres at the 8-cell stage have potential to produce PGCs in shiro-uo.

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PubMed1990

The candidate proto-oncogene bcl-3 is related to genes implicated in cell lineage determination and cell cycle control.

A gene, bcl-3, is found on chromosome 19 adjacent to the breakpoints in the translocation t(14;19)(q32;q13.1), which occurs in some cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Sequence analysis of the human bcl-3 gene predicts a protein containing seven tandem copies of the SWI6/cdc10 motif. This motif was previously identified in yeast genes that regulate events at the start of the cell cycle and in invertebrate transmembrane proteins involved in cell differentiation pathways. Expression of bcl-3 in normal blood cells increases markedly following mitogenic stimulation, and leukemic cells with the translocation show much greater expression than controls. These results suggest that bcl-3 is a proto-oncogene that may contribute to leukemogenesis when abnormally expressed.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

PubMed2006

Optimization of fibrin scaffolds for differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells into neural lineage cells.

The objective of this research was to determine the appropriate cell culture conditions for embryonic stem (ES) cell proliferation and differentiation in fibrin scaffolds by examining cell seeding density, location, and the optimal concentrations of fibrinogen, thrombin, and aprotinin (protease inhibitor). Mouse ES cells were induced to become neural progenitors by adding retinoic acid for 4 days to embryoid body (EB) cultures. For dissociated EBs, the optimal cell seeding density and location was determined to be 250,000 cells/cm(2) seeded on top of fibrin scaffolds. For intact EBs, three-dimensional (3D) cultures with one EB per 400 microL fibrin scaffold resulted in greater cell proliferation and differentiation than two-dimensional (2D) cultures. Optimal concentrations for scaffold polymerization were 10mg/mL of fibrinogen and 2 NIH units/mL of thrombin. The optimal aprotinin concentration was determined to be 50 microg/mL for dissociated EBs (2D) and 5 microg/mL for intact EBs in 3D fibrin scaffolds. Additionally, after 14 days in 3D culture EBs differentiated into neurons and astrocytes as indicated by immunohistochemisty. These conditions provide an optimal fibrin scaffold for evaluating ES cell differentiation and proliferation in culture, and for use as a platform for neural tissue engineering applications, such as the treatment for spinal cord injury.

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