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T Nakano, N Waki, H Asai and Y Kitamura
Division of Cancer Pathology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
We investigated whether the stem cell that reconstitutes total
erythropoiesis of a WBB6F1-W/Wv mouse differentiates into lymphoid lineage.
The electrophoretic pattern of hemoglobin was used as a marker of the
reconstitution; 3-phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK), an X chromosome- linked
enzyme was used as a tool for estimating clonality. We injected 10(5) bone
marrow cells of 5-FU treated C57BL/6-Pgk-1b/Pgk-1a female mice, in which
each stem cell had either A-type PGK or B-type PGK due to random
inactivation of one of two X chromosomes, into genetically anemic (WB x
C57BL/6)F1-W/Wv (hereafter WBB6F1-W/Wv) mice that contained only B-type
PGK. The recipient WBB6F1-W/Wv mice, in which erythropoiesis was
reconstituted with donor cells for a long term, were killed and the PGK
patterns of bone marrows, thymus, lymph nodes, and Peyer's patches were
examined. A considerable amount of A-type PGK was detected in the lymphoid
organs of the WBB6F1-W/Wv mice in which erythrocytes showed only A-type PGK
when killed. In contrast, A-type PGK was scarcely detectable in the
lymphoid organs of the WBB6F1-W/Wv mice in which erythrocytes showed only
B-type PGK when killed. The present results suggest that the hematopoietic
stem cells estimated by the erythropoiesis reconstituting assay
differentiate into lymphoid lineage and that the long-term erythropoiesis
reconstitution assay is useful for detecting the true primitive
hematopoietic stem cells.
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