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Regulated Expression of the Eph-Related Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Hek11 in Early Human B Lymphopoiesis
Hans-Christian Aasheim,
Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, and
Ton Logtenberg
From the Department of Immunology, University Hospital Utrecht, Heidelberglaan Utrecht, The Netherlands; and Immunicon Corporation, Huntington Valley, PA.
Members of the large Eph family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) display temporally and spatially restricted expression patterns during embryogenesis, suggesting a role in various developmental processes. We have begun to investigate the expression of members of this receptor family during human hematopoiesis, in particular B lymphopoiesis. Expression of Eph RTKs in cells of the B-lymphoid lineage was assessed by using degenerate oligonucleotide primers based on stretches of conserved nucleic acid sequences in members of the Eph family. First, the content of Eph-family RTKs was assessed in freshly sorted fetal bone marrow pro-B cells. This population was found to harbor transcripts of the Hek8 and Hek11 members of this gene family. Subsequent analysis of expression of these genes in B cells representing various differentiation and ontogenic stages showed that the Hek8 transcript is constitutively present in all fetal and adult B-lineage cells, with high levels of expression in peripheral blood B cells. In contrast, the Hek11 transcript was exclusively found in fetal bone marrow pro-B cells and pre-B cells, but not in more mature fetal B-lineage cells. All adult B-lineage cells, from early pro-B cells to end-stage plasma cells, lacked Hek11 transcripts. The developmentally regulated expression of Hek11 during fetal B lymphopoiesis suggests a role for this gene in pre/pro-B cell expansion and/or differentiation and defines a difference in progenitor B cell populations isolated from fetal versus adult human bone marrow.
Blood, Vol. 90 No. 9 (November 1), 1997:
pp. 3613-3622
© 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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