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Blood, 1 April 2002, Vol. 99, No. 7, pp. 2603-2605
BRIEF REPORT
Erythropoietin receptor haploinsufficiency and in vivo interplay
with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and
interleukin 3
Armin G. Jegalian,
Adriana Acurio,
Glenn Dranoff, and
Hong Wu
From the Molecular Biology Institute, Department of
Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, and Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine; and
the Department of Adult Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Erythropoietin (EPO) and its receptor (EPOR) are critical for
definitive erythropoiesis, as mice lacking either gene product die
during embryogenesis with severe anemia. Here we demonstrate that mice
expressing just one functional allele of the EpoR have lower hematocrits and die more frequently than do wild-type littermates on anemia induction. Furthermore, EpoR+/
erythroid colony-forming unit (CFU-E) progenitors are reduced both in frequency and in responsiveness to EPO stimulation. To evaluate
the interaction between EPO and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) or interleukin 3 (IL-3),
GM-CSF / or
IL-3 / mice were interbred with
EpoR+/ mice. Deletion of either
GM-CSF or IL-3 also leads to reduction in CFU-E numbers and hematocrits
but does not significantly alter steady-state erythroid burst-forming
unit numbers. These results suggest EpoR haploinsufficiency
and promotion of in vivo erythropoiesis by GM-CSF and IL-3.

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