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Blood, 7 May 2009, Vol. 113, No. 19, pp. 4534-4540. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on February 17, 2009; DOI 10.1182/blood-2008-12-192559.
HEMATOPOIESIS AND STEM CELLS Interleukin-6 aborts lymphopoiesis and elevates production of myeloid cells in systemic lupus erythematosus–prone B6.Sle1.Yaa animalsPrograms in 1 Immunobiology and Cancer and 2 Arthritis and Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City
We previously reported the inhibitory action of interleukin-6 (IL-6) on B lymphopoiesis with SHIP–/– mice and showed that IL-6 biases lineage commitment toward myeloid cell fates in vitro and in vivo. Because elevated IL-6 is a feature of chronic inflammatory diseases, we applied an animal model of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) to determine whether IL-6 has similar effects on hematopoiesis. We found that IL-6 levels were elevated in the B6.Sle1.Yaa mice, and the increase was accompanied by losses of CD19+ B cells and more primitive B-lymphoid progenitors in bone marrow. Both the CD19+ B-cell population and their progenitors recovered in an IL-6–/– background. The uncommitted progenitors, containing precursors for both lymphoid and myeloid fates, expressed IL-6 receptor-
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