Intramedullary and extramedullary B lymphopoiesis in osteopetrotic mice.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2000

Keywords

Animal, B-Lymphocytes, Bone-Marrow-Cells, Genes-fos, Hematopoiesis, Hematopoietic-Stem-Cells, Heterozygote, Homozygote, Interleukin-7, Liver, Mice, Mice-Inbred-C57BL, Mice-Knockout, Osteopetrosis, Polymerase-Chain-Reaction, Proto-Oncogene-Proteins, Proto-Oncogene-Proteins-c-fos, Receptor-Protein-Tyrosine-Kinases, Spleen, Stem-Cell-Factor, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

3363

Last Page

3370

JAX Source

Blood 2000 Jun; 95(11):3363-70.

Grant

CA20408/CA/NCI

Abstract

Adult bone marrow is a major site for hematopoiesis, and reduction of the bone marrow cavity induces hematopoiesis in extramarrow tissues. To investigate the rudimentary intramarrow and the compensatory extramarrow hematopoiesis, particularly B lymphopoiesis, we used 3 osteopetrotic mouse strains [op/op, mi/mi, and Fos (-/-)], which are severely deficient in functional osteoclasts and therefore form inadequate bone marrow cavities. We found that bone marrow in these osteopetrotic mice supports myelopoiesis but not B lymphopoiesis, although cells that have the potential to differentiate into B lineage cells are present in the bone marrow. Although B lymphopoiesis normally occurs both in the spleen and liver of newborn mice, compensatory B lymphopoiesis in adult op/op and mi/mi mice is observed only in the liver, while myelopoiesis is enhanced in both organs. Interestingly, mice lacking the Fos proto-oncogene exhibit B lymphopoiesis in the spleen as well as liver. The amounts of expression of steel factor, Flt3/Flk-2 ligand, and interleukin-7 in the bone marrow, spleen, or liver were not significantly affected in these osteopetrotic mutants. These findings suggest that the volume of the bone marrow cavity regulates B lymphopoiesis without affecting the production of certain hematopoietic growth factors. The splenic microenvironments that support both myelopoiesis and B lymphopoiesis in the neonatal stage are lost in adults and are not reactivated even in the osteopetrotic adults unless the Fos gene is disrupted.

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