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Lineage-Specific Regulation of Hematopoiesis by HOX-B8 (HOX-2.4): Inhibition of Granulocytic Differentiation and Potentiation of Monocytic Differentiation
Kandasamy Krishnaraju,
Barbara Hoffman, and
Dan A. Liebermann
From the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, and Department of Biochemistry, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Homeobox proteins comprise a major class of transcription factors, which have been implicated in normal hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis. Notable in this context is the homeobox gene HOX-B8 (formerly known as HOX-2.4), which was shown to cooperate with hematokines to induce leukemia, and to enhance self-renewal of immature myeloid progenitors when expressed alone. How HOX-B8 may affect lineage specific development of hematopoietic progenitor cells is unknown. Here it is shown that ectopic expression of HOX-B8 specifically inhibited dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-induced granulocytic differentiation of autonomously proliferating HL-60 myeloid progenitor cells. HOX-B8 also inhibited the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF )-induced granulocytic developmental program of factor dependent 32Dcl3 hematopoietic progenitors, including survival, proliferation, and differentiation, as evident by rapid apoptosis of the cells following removal of interleukin-3 (IL-3) and addition of G-CSF. In sharp contrast, HOX-B8 had no effect on macrophage differentiation of M1 and HL-60 cells induced by IL-6 and phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate, respectively. Moreover, HOX-B8 expression endowed the 32Dcl3 cells with the ability to be induced by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF ) for terminal differentiation exclusively along the macrophage lineage; this effect was at least partially mediated via expression of the zinc finger transcription factor Egr-1. Thus, ectopic expression of HOX-B8 in hematopoietic progenitor cells appears to differentially affect lineage specific development, negatively regulating granulocyte development and positively regulating macrophage development.
Blood, Vol. 90 No. 5 (September 1), 1997:
pp. 1840-1849
© 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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