The colony-stimulating factors induce expression of insulin-like growth factor-I messenger ribonucleic acid during hematopoiesis

S. Arkins, N. Rebeiz, D. L. Brunke-Reese, Christian T Minshall, K. W. Kelley

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Abstract

Murine bone marrow cells cultured in the presence of colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) showed coordinate induction of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) messenger RNA (mRNA) during the differentiation process, and these transcripts increased approximately 50-to 75-fold over the virtually negligible levels measured in freshly isolated bone marrow. In contrast, transcripts for the IGF-I receptor were evident in freshly isolated rat bone marrow cells and showed a 50% down-regulation during differentiation. Addition of a variety of single lineage and multilineage CSFs, including CSF- 1, interleukin-3, granulocyte-macrophage-CSF, and granulocyte-CSF to mouse bone marrow cultures revealed that induction of IGF-I mRNA is a universal feature of differentiation with these CSFs, although IGF-I transcripts are at least 10- to 20-fold higher in CSF-1- and interleukin-3-differentiated lineages than in other cultures. The IGF-I induced by CSF-1 was biologically active because a natural ligand of IGF-I, IGF-binding protein-3, caused significant down-regulation of cellular proliferation, and this could be reversed by the addition of exogenous IGF-I. In addition, whereas IGF-I mRNA could be detected in resident peritoneal macrophages, these transcripts were increased 6-fold after a local injection of thioglycollate, a stimulus that induces macrophage proliferation and differentiation in vivo. These results show that CSFs induce expression of the growth factor IGF-I during differentiation of hematopoietic cells into multiple myeloid lineages and that this endogenously produced IGF-I is also a growth factor for hematopoietic cells. The induction of IGF-I mRNA during hematopoiesis should provide a new approach to understanding the expression of this gene during development and differentiation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1153-1160
Number of pages8
JournalEndocrinology
Volume136
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1995

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Endocrinology

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