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  • Title: Synergistic effects of hepatocyte growth factor on human cord blood CD34+ progenitor cells are the result of c-met receptor expression.
    Author: Goff JP, Shields DS, Petersen BE, Zajac VF, Michalopoulos GK, Greenberger JS.
    Journal: Stem Cells; 1996 Sep; 14(5):592-602. PubMed ID: 8888500.
    Abstract:
    Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a pleiotropic growth factor which, in addition to its mitogenic potency for primary hepatocytes, also has a role in the regulation of cell motility, cell growth and morphogenesis. In the present study, we show that c-met, the high-affinity receptor for HGF, is expressed on human cord blood (CB) CD34+ progenitor cells and CD34+Thy-1+ Lin-(lin-) cells. We have investigated the capacity of HGF to synergize with other growth factors to induce colony formation by CB CD34+ progenitor cells. CD34+ cells were cultured in semisolid medium containing serum with increasing concentrations of GM-CSF, G-CSF, macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), stem cell factor (SCF), interleukin 3 (IL-3) and IL-11 alone or in combination with HGF. HGF acted as a potent synergist and enhanced, up to fourfold, colony formation induced by GM-CSF, G-CSF or M-CSF. HGF in combination with SCF, IL-3 or IL-11 did not induce proliferation of colony forming units-granulocyte macrophage (CFU-GM) above control levels. In serum-deprived cultures, HGF was only detectably synergistic with IL-11, and all other culture combinations showed no proliferation. To determine whether the stimulatory effect of IL-11 and the synergistic effect of HGF in the absence of serum could be attributed to the effect of these two cytokines on stem cells, IL-11-stimulated and unstimulated lin- cells were analyzed for expression of c-met. CD34+Thy-1+Lin- cells were positive for c-met, both in the presence and absence of IL-11 stimulation, and Northern analysis indicated that c-met RNA expression was upregulated in response to IL-11 compared to unstimulated controls. These results provide strong evidence for upregulation of the HGF receptor on primitive hematopoietic cells by IL-11, and for the synergistic role of HGF in colony formation by hematopoietic stem cells.
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