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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on August 15, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-03-0740.
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Blood, 1 January 2003, Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 134-142
HEMATOPOIESIS
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5a (STAT5a) is
required for eosinophil differentiation of human cord blood-derived
CD34+ cells
Miranda Buitenhuis,
Belinda Baltus,
Jan-Willem J. Lammers,
Paul J. Coffer, and
Leo Koenderman
From the Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University
Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) have
been reported to play a critical role in the differentiation of several
myeloid cell lines, although the importance of STATs in the
differentiation of primary human hematopoietic cells remains to be
established. Terminal eosinophil differentiation is induced by
interleukin-5 (IL-5), which has also been demonstrated to activate STAT5. We have investigated whether STAT5 plays a critical role during
eosinophil differentiation using umbilical cord blood-derived CD34+ cells. In this ex vivo system, STAT5 expression and
activation are high early during differentiation, and STAT5 protein
expression is down-regulated during the final stages of eosinophil
differentiation. Retroviral transductions were performed to ectopically
express wild-type and dominant-negative STAT5a (STAT5a 750) in
CD34+ cells. Transduction of cells with STAT5a resulted in
enhanced proliferation compared with cells transduced with empty vector alone. Interestingly, ectopic expression of STAT5a also resulted in
accelerated differentiation. In contrast, ectopic expression of
STAT5a 750 resulted in a block in differentiation, whereas proliferation was also severely inhibited. Similar results were obtained with dominant-negative STAT5b. Forced expression of STAT5a enhanced expression of the STAT5 target genes Bcl-2 and
p21WAF/Cip1, suggesting they may be
important in STAT5a-mediated eosinophil differentiation. These results
demonstrate that STAT5 plays a critical role in eosinophil
differentiation of primary human hematopoietic cells.

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