scholarly journals Regulation of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor expression by oncostatin M

Blood ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
TJ Brown ◽  
J Liu ◽  
C Brashem-Stein ◽  
M Shoyab

Oncostatin M (OM) is structurally and functionally related to a subclass of hematopoietic cytokines including leukemia-inhibitory factor (LIF), ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), granulocyte colony- stimulating factor (G-CSF), and interleukin-6 (IL-6). Using human endothelial cells (HEC) as a model for cytokine regulation of hematopoietic growth factor expression, we tested OM as an inducer of colony-stimulating activity. Colony-forming cell assays supplemented with culture supernatants from OM-treated HEC contained a threefold increase in colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage colonies. Specific immunoassay (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) of culture supernatants indicated that OM treatment of HEC resulted in a dose- and time-dependent increase in the accumulation of G-CSF and granulocyte- macrophage CSF (GM-CSF) (> 28-fold). The ED50 for OM induction of G-CSF and GM-CSF protein expression was 17 and 7 pmol/L, respectively. Increased protein expression was associated with a similar increase in steady-state expression of G-CSF and GM-CSF mRNA. Furthermore, a period of 12 to 24 hours elapsed before there were measurable increases in CSF expression, suggesting that OM may stimulate CSF production through a mechanism requiring the synthesis or activation of a secondary mediating factor or pathway. These findings provide the first evidence that OM may regulate myelopoiesis by inducing the cellular expression of hematopoietic growth factors.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. bcr-2018-226016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajvi Patel ◽  
Ateaya Lima ◽  
Christopher Burke ◽  
Mark Hoffman

A 26-year-old man with history of schizophrenia was admitted for neutropaenia. He was started on clozapine 3 months prior to admission. As a result he had weekly monitoring of his blood counts and on day of admission was noted to have an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 450 cells/μL. He was admitted for clozapine-induced agranulocytosis. Clozapine was held and the patient was started on granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) filgrastim and received two doses without any signs of ANC recovery. On further review, it was noted that the absolute monocyte count (AMC) was also low and tracked with the trend of ANC. We then theorised that the impact of clozapine was on a haematopoietic precursor (colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage, CFU-GM) which gives rise to both monocytic and myeloid lineages. Therefore, sargramostim GM-CSF was started. After two doses, the ANC and AMC started trending up and by the third dose, both counts had fully recovered. He was discharged from the hospital and there are no plans to rechallenge with clozapine. Thus, we demonstrate a case of monocytopenia accompanying clozapine-induced agranulocytosis with successful use of GM-CSF. At least in this case, the target of the clozapine injury appears to be the CFU-GM, explaining the rapid and full response to GM-CSF after lack of response to G-CSF.


Blood ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 1954-1962 ◽  
Author(s):  
TR Ulich ◽  
J del Castillo ◽  
IK McNiece ◽  
ES Yi ◽  
CP Alzona ◽  
...  

Abstract Recombinant rat stem cell factor (rrSCF) and recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) coinjected for 1 week in rats cause a synergistic increase in mature marrow neutrophils accompanied by a striking decrease in erythroid and lymphoid marrow elements. The spleens of the same rats show increased granulopoiesis as well as increased erythropoiesis as compared with the spleens of rats treated with either growth factor alone. Splenic extramedullary erythropoiesis may act to compensate for the decrease in marrow erythropoiesis. The coinjection of rrSCF and G-CSF causes an increase in marrow mast cells at the end of 1 week, but the increase is much less than in rrSCF-alone-treated rats. The combination of rrSCF and G- CSF increases the rate of release of marrow neutrophils into the circulation and causes a dramatic synergistic peripheral neutrophilia, beginning especially after 4 days of treatment. Colony-forming assays of all experimental groups showed a synergistic increase in colony- forming unit granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) in the marrow, but not in peripheral blood, after coincubation with SCF plus granulocyte- macrophage CSF (GM-CSF) as opposed to GM-CSF alone, showing anatomic compartmentalization between a more primitive marrow CFU-GM subset and a more mature peripheral blood CFU-GM subset. In vivo daily administration of SCF plus GM-CSF results in a synergistic increase in marrow neutrophils, but not the striking synergistic increase in circulating neutrophils that is observed with SCF plus G-CSF.


2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sînziana Cetean ◽  
Călin Căinap ◽  
Anne-Marie Constantin ◽  
Simona Căinap ◽  
Alexandra Gherman ◽  
...  

Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is a glycoprotein, the second CSF, sharing some common effects with granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin-3 (IL-3) and interleukin-5 (IL-5). G-CSF is mainly produced by fibroblasts and endothelial cells from bone marrow stroma and by immunocompetent cells (monocytes, macrophages). The receptor for G-CSF (G-CSFR) is part of the cytokine and hematopoietin receptor superfamily and G-CSFR mutations cause severe congenital neutropenia.The main action of G-CSF - G-CSFR linkage is stimulation of the production, mobilization, survival and chemotaxis of neutrophils, but there are many other G-CSF effects: growth and migration of endothelial cells, decrease of norepinephrine reuptake, increase in osteoclastic activity and decrease in osteoblast activity.In oncology, G-CSF is utilized especially for the primary prophylaxis of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, but it can be used for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, it can produce monocytic differentiation of some myeloid leukemias and it can increase some drug resistance.The therapeutic indications of G-CSF are becoming more and more numerous: non neutropenic patients infections, reproductive medicine, neurological disturbances, regeneration therapy after acute myocardial infarction and of skeletal muscle, and hepatitis C therapy.


Blood ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
pp. 1951-1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
AR Migliaccio ◽  
G Migliaccio ◽  
DC Dale ◽  
WP Hammond

Abstract The number and growth factor requirements of committed progenitor cells (colony-forming units-granulocyte/macrophage and burst-forming units- erythroid) in three patients with cyclic neutropenia (two congenital, one acquired) were studied before and during therapy with recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF; 3 to 10 micrograms/kg/d). When the patients with congenital disease were treated with G-CSF, the cycling of blood cells persisted, but the cycle length was shortened from 21 days to 14 days, and the amplitude of variations in blood counts increased. There was a parallel shortening of the cycle and increase of the amplitude of variations (from two- to three-fold to 10- to 100-fold) in the number of both types of circulating progenitor cells in these two patients. In the patient with acquired cyclic neutropenia, cycling of both blood cells and progenitors could not be seen. In cultures deprived of fetal bovine serum, erythroid and myeloid bone marrow progenitor cells from untreated patients and from normals differed in growth factor responsiveness. As examples, maximal growth of granulocyte/macrophage (GM) colonies was induced by granulocyte/macrophage (GM)-CSF plus G-CSF in the patients, whereas a combination of GM-CSF, G-CSF and interleukin- 3 (IL-3) was required in the normals, and erythropoietin alone induced fourfold more erythroid bursts from cyclic neutropenic patients than from normal donors (46% versus 11% of the maximal colony number, respectively). The growth factor responsiveness of marrow progenitor cells slightly changed during the treatment toward the values observed with normal progenitors. These results indicate that treatment with G- CSF not only ameliorated the neutropenia, but also increased the amplitude and the frequency of oscillation of circulating progenitor cell numbers. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that G-CSF therapy affects the proliferation of the hematopoietic stem cell.


Blood ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 84 (12) ◽  
pp. 4078-4087 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Ragnhammar ◽  
HJ Friesen ◽  
JE Frodin ◽  
AK Lefvert ◽  
M Hassan ◽  
...  

The pharmacokinetics of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony- stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF), induction of anti-GM-CSF antibodies, and clinical effects related to the induction of the antibodies were analyzed in patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma (CRC) who were not on chemotherapy (n = 20, nonimmunocompromised patients). rhGM- CSF (250 micrograms/m2/d; Escherichia coli-derived) was administered subcutaneously for 10 days every month for 4 months. Eight patients with multiple myeloma (MM) on intensive chemotherapy followed by rhGM- CSF treatment were also included (immunocompromised patients). After a single injection of GM-CSF at the first cycle in CRC patients, the maximum calculated concentration (Cmax) was 5.24 +/- 0.56 ng/mL; the half life (T1/2) was 2.91 +/- 0.8 hours; and the area under the concentration curve (AUC) was 30.86 +/- 6.03 hours x ng/mL (mean +/- SE). No anti-GM-CSF antibodies were detected. During the subsequent cycles, 95% of the CRC patients developed anti-GM-CSF IgG antibodies, which significantly altered the pharmacokinetics of rhGM-CSF at the third and fourth cycles with decreased Cmax (2.87 +/- 0.57 ng/mL; P < .05), T1/2 (1.57 +/- 0.2 hours; P < .05), and AUC (14.90 +/- 4.10 hours x ng/mL; P < .005). The presence of anti-GM-CSF antibodies significantly reduced the GM-CSF-induced enhancement of granulocytes, and there was a clear tendency for a decreased increment of monocytes. Antibodies diminished systemic side effects of rhGM-CSF. Only 1 of 8 MM patients showed a very low anti-GM-CSF antibody titer after GM-CSF therapy, as shown by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western blot. Therefore, in nonimmunocompromised patients, exogenous nonglycosylated GM-CSF induced an anti-GM-CSF IgG antibody response in practically all patients, which seemed to be of clinical significance. In immunocompromised patients, virtually no significant antibody response was shown.


Blood ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. 1033-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Kanakura ◽  
SA Cannistra ◽  
CB Brown ◽  
M Nakamura ◽  
GF Seelig ◽  
...  

Abstract Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a glycoprotein that is required for the survival, growth, and differentiation of hematopoietic progenitor cells. Although the primary structure of GM-CSF is known from cDNA cloning, the relationship between structure and function of GM-CSF is not fully understood. Fifteen different monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) to human GM-CSF were generated to map immunologically distinct areas of the molecule. Each of the MoAbs was biotinylated and shown by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to bind to recombinant GM-CSF that had been affixed to a solid phase. Each of the 15 unconjugated MoAbs was then used to compete with each biotinylated MoAb for binding to GM-CSF. These cross-blocking studies identified eight distinct epitopes of native GM-CSF. Seven of these epitopes were also present in denatured GM-CSF by Western blotting, and four of the epitopes were at least partially conserved on GM-CSF that was reduced in beta-mercaptoethanol. MoAbs to four of eight epitopes neutralized both recombinant (glycosylated and nonglycosylated) and natural human GM-CSF in a GM colony-forming unit (CFU-GM) assay and blocked GM-CSF-induced activation of neutrophils. For most of the antibodies there was a good correlation between neutralizing activity and the capacity to block binding of 125I-GM-CSF to neutrophils or blasts. Non-neutralizing antibodies to one epitope partially blocked binding of 125I-GM-CSF to neutrophils. None of the MoAbs neutralized interleukin-3, G-CSF, or M-CSF. The locations of seven of the epitopes could be partially mapped with regard to the amino acid structure by determining reactivity to GM-CSF synthetic peptides or to human-mouse chimeric GM-CSFs. The neutralizing antibodies were found to map to amino acids 40–77, 78–94, or 110–127. Thus, these MoAbs are useful to identify functional domains of GM-CSF and in identifying regions that are likely to be involved in receptor interaction.


2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 1824-1830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omer N. Koç ◽  
Stanton L. Gerson ◽  
Brenda W. Cooper ◽  
Mary Laughlin ◽  
Howard Meyerson ◽  
...  

PURPOSE: Patient response to hematopoietic progenitor-cell mobilizing regimens seems to vary considerably, making comparison between regimens difficult. To eliminate this inter-patient variability, we designed a cross-over trial and prospectively compared the number of progenitors mobilized into blood after granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) days 1 to 12 plus granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) days 7 to 12 (regimen G) with the number of progenitors after cyclophosphamide plus G-CSF days 3 to 14 (regimen C) in the same patient. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-nine patients were randomized to receive either regimen G or C first (G1 and C1, respectively) and underwent two leukaphereses. After a washout period, patients were then crossed over to the alternate regimen (C2 and G2, respectively) and underwent two additional leukaphereses. The hematopoietic progenitor-cell content of each collection was determined. In addition, toxicity and charges were tracked. RESULTS: Regimen C (n = 50) resulted in mobilization of more CD34+ cells (2.7-fold/kg/apheresis), erythroid burst-forming units (1.8-fold/kg/apheresis), and colony-forming units–granulocyte-macrophage (2.2-fold/kg/apheresis) compared with regimen G given to the same patients (n = 46; paired t test, P < .01 for all comparisons). Compared with regimen G, regimen C resulted in better mobilization, whether it was given first (P = .025) or second (P = .02). The ability to achieve a target collection of ≥ 2 × 106 CD34+ cells/kg using two leukaphereses was 50% after G1 and 90% after C1. Three of the seven patients in whom mobilization was poor after G1 had ≥ 2 × 106 CD34+ cells/kg with two leukaphereses after C2. In contrast, when regimen G was given second (G2), seven out of 10 patients failed to achieve the target CD34+ cell dose despite adequate collections after C1. Thirty percent of the patients (nine of 29) given regimen C were admitted to the hospital because of neutropenic fever for a median duration of 4 days (range, 2 to 10 days). The higher cost of regimen C was balanced by higher CD34+ cell yield, resulting in equivalent charges based on cost per CD34+ cell collected. CONCLUSION: We report the first clinical trial that used a cross-over design showing that high-dose cyclophosphamide plus G-CSF results in mobilization of more progenitors then GM-CSF plus G-CSF when tested in the same patient regardless of sequence of administration, although the regimen is associated with greater morbidity. Patients who fail to achieve adequate mobilization after regimen G can be treated with regimen C as an effective salvage regimen, whereas patients who fail regimen C are unlikely to benefit from subsequent treatment with regimen G. The cross-over design allowed detection of significant differences between regimens in a small cohort of patients and should be considered in design of future comparisons of mobilization regimens.


Blood ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 4210-4210
Author(s):  
Yoshiki Uemura ◽  
Makoto Kobayashi ◽  
Hideshi Nakata ◽  
Tetsuya Kubota ◽  
Hirokuni Taguchi

Abstract Many cases of tumors that produce granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) or granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) have been reported. However, the biological properties regulatory mechanisms of the overproduction of G-CSFor GM-CSF by tumor cells are not well known. We present the role of protein kinase C (PKC) pathways in the constitutive expression of G-CSF and GM-CSF by lung cancer cells. We previously established two lung cancer cell lines, OKa-C-1 and MI-4, that constitutively produce an abundant dose of G-CSF and GM-CSF. We showed that the PKC activator; phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) stimulated the production of GM-CSF in a dose-dependent manner and inversely reduced G-CSF in the cell lines. These effects of PMA were antagonized by PKC inhibitor; staurosporine. The induction of GM-CSF expression by PMA was mediated through the activations of nuclear factor (NF)-kB activation. The induction of G-CSF expression by staurosporine was mediated through p44/42 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway signaling. PMA accelerated cell growth and inhibited cell death in the cell line. Whereas staurosporine acted inversely. GM-CSF induced by PMA might stimulate cell growth and suppress cell death. G-CSF expression by staurosporine appears to be related to the activation of p44/42 MAPK, and GM-CSF by PMA to NF-kB in OKa-C-1 and MI-4 cells. Figure Figure


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