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Proliferation and Differentiation of Murine Myeloid Precursor 32D/G-CSF-R Cells
Published on: February 21, 2018
[Role of antiapoptotic Bcl-X(L) in megakaryocyte differentiation and maturation]
Lei Zhang1, Ren-chi Yang, Shi-hong Lu
1State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hospital of Blood Disease, Institute of Hematology, CAMS and PUMC, Tianjin 300020, China.
Objective:
To investigate the role of antiapoptotic Bcl-x(L) protein in megakaryocyte differentiation and maturation.
Methods:
RNA interference was used to block the expression of Bcl-x(L) when K562 cells were induced to differentiate into megakaryocyte (CD61 + cells) by PDBu, and the expression of Bcl-x(L) was evaluated with flow cytometry and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The CD34 + cell fraction was positively isolated by using the MiniMACS system from normal bone marrow. Immunochemical staining and flow cytometry were used to detect the expression of Bcl-x(L) in the differentiation (CD41 + cells) of CD34 + cells induced by trombopoietin (TPO).
Results:
Among K562 cells induced by PDBu, the percentage of CD6L + cells rapidly increased in 24 hours and maintained at a high positive level in 72 hours. When exposured to si-Bcl-x(L), the percentage of CD6 1 + cells only slightly increased in 72 hours. The expression of Bcl-x(L) mRNA was significantly decreased after transfection compared with that of control group, and Bcl-x(L) protein expression decreased correspondingly. After the CD34 + bone marrow cells having been treated with TPO for 5 days to 20 days, the Bcl-x(L)-megakaryocytes increased as the culture time prolonged, and there was a strong expression of Bcl-x(L) in immature megakaryocyte and an obviously decreased expression in degenerating megakaryocytes maturation.
Conclusions:
Increased expression of antiapoptotic Bcl-x(L) may be essential to mature megakaryocyte. The down-regulation of antiapoptotic Bcl-x(L) in mature megakaryocyte may be crucial to platelets formation.
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