Antagonizing retinoic acid receptors increases myeloid cell production by cultured human hematopoietic stem cells

Geoffrey Brown, Aleksandra Marchwicka, Alan Cunningham, Kai-Michael Toellner, Ewa Marcinkowska

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Abstract

Activities of the retinoic acid receptor (RAR)α and RARγ are important to hematopoiesis. Here, we have investigated the effects of receptor selective agonists and antagonists on the primitive human hematopoietic cell lines KG1 and NB-4 and purified normal human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Agonizing RARα (by AGN195183) was effective in driving neutrophil differentiation of NB-4 cells and this agonist synergized with a low amount (10 nM) of 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 to drive monocyte differentiation of NB-4 and KG1 cells. Treatment of cultures of human HSCs (supplemented with stem cell factor ± interleukin 3) with an antagonist of all RARs (AGN194310) or of RARα (AGN196996) prolonged the lifespan of cultures, up to 55 days, and increased the production of neutrophils and monocytes. Slowing down of cell differentiation was not observed, and instead, hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells had expanded in number. Antagonism of RARγ (by AGN205728) did not affect cultures of HSCs. Studies of CV-1 and LNCaP cells transfected with RAR expression vectors and a reporter vector revealed that RARγ and RARβ are activated by sub-nM all-trans retinoic acid (EC50–0.3 nM): ~50-fold more is required for activation of RARα (EC50–16 nM). These findings further support the notion that the balance of expression and activity of RARα and RARγ are important to hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell expansion and differentiation.
Original languageEnglish
Article number13
Pages (from-to)69–81
JournalArchivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis
Volume65
Issue number1
Early online date13 Jul 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2017

Keywords

  • Retinoic acid receptor
  • Hematopoiesis
  • Neutrophils
  • Monocytes
  • All-trans retinoic acid
  • Agonist
  • Antagonist

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