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JH Falkenburg, WE Fibbe, N van der Vaart-Duinkerken, ME Nichols, P Rubinstein and J Jansen
The expression of Rhesus antigens on hematopoietic progenitor cells was
studied using monoclonal antibodies. Because these antibodies are not
capable of lysing mature red blood cells in a complement-dependent
cytotoxicity assay, fluorescence-activated cell sorting was performed.
Using the monoclonal anti-Rh 29 antibody B10, 68% +/- 6% of the mature
erythroid progenitor cells (CFU-E) were sorted into the positive fraction,
while only 2% +/- 1% of the relatively immature erythroid progenitor cells
(BFU-E), and 3% +/- 1% of the granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells
(CFU-GM) were cultured from this same fraction. Thus up to a 15-fold
enrichment of CFU-E could be obtained. In two experiments more than 4% of
the cells in the positive fraction consisted of CFU-E; in one experiment
even more than 7% did. Using fractionated cell sorting, the Rhesus antigens
appeared to have a lower density on CFU-E than HLA-DR determinants.
Antibodies against the Rhesus antigens can be applied to enrich
erythroid-committed stem cells and to separate mature from immature
erythroid progenitor cells.
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