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IL-3 Induces Basophil Expansion In Vivo by Directing Granulocyte-Monocyte Progenitors to Differentiate into Basophil Lineage-Restricted Progenitors in the Bone This information is current as Marrow and by Increasing the Number of of September 26, 2021. Basophil/Mast Cell Progenitors in the Spleen Keitaro Ohmori, Yuchun Luo, Yi Jia, Jun Nishida, Zhengqi Wang, Kevin D. Bunting, Demin Wang and Hua Huang Downloaded from J Immunol 2009; 182:2835-2841; ; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802870 http://www.jimmunol.org/content/182/5/2835 http://www.jimmunol.org/ References This article cites 41 articles, 22 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/182/5/2835.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision by guest on September 26, 2021 • No Triage! 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The Journal of Immunology IL-3 Induces Basophil Expansion In Vivo by Directing Granulocyte-Monocyte Progenitors to Differentiate into Basophil Lineage-Restricted Progenitors in the Bone Marrow and by Increasing the Number of Basophil/Mast Cell Progenitors in the Spleen1 Keitaro Ohmori,2* Yuchun Luo,* Yi Jia,* Jun Nishida,* Zhengqi Wang,† Kevin D. Bunting,† Demin Wang,‡§ and Hua Huang3*¶ Recent work has established important roles for basophils in regulating immune responses. To exert their biological functions, Downloaded from basophils need to be expanded to critical numbers. However, the mechanisms underlying basophil expansion remain unclear. In this study, we established that IL-3 played an important role in the rapid and specific expansion of basophils. We found that the IL-3 complex (IL-3 plus anti-IL-3 Ab) greatly facilitated the differentiation of GMPs into basophil lineage-restricted progenitors (BaPs) but not into eosinophil lineage-restricted progenitors or mast cells in the bone marrow. We also found that the IL-3 complex treatment resulted in ϳ4-fold increase in the number of basophil/mast cell progenitors (BMCPs) in the spleen. IL-3-driven basophil expansion depended on STAT5 signaling. We showed that GMPs but not common myeloid progenitors expressed low levels of IL-3 receptor. IL-3 receptor http://www.jimmunol.org/ expression was dramatically up-regulated in BaPs but not eosinophil lineage-restricted progenitors. Approximately 38% of BMCPs expressed the IL-3R␣-chain. The up-regulated IL-3 receptor expression was not affected by IL-3 or STAT5. Our findings demonstrate that IL-3 induced specific expansion of basophils by directing GMPs to differentiate into BaPs in the bone marrow and by increasing the number of BMCPs in the spleen. The Journal of Immunology, 2009, 182: 2835–2841. ecent work has established important roles for basophils dramatically in number after infection with intestinal nematode, in initiating (1–3) and augmenting Th2-type immune Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (11). They also increase in number responses to allergen challenges and parasitic infection after protease allergen challenge (2). ϩ R by guest on September 26, 2021 (4–6), mediating anaphylaxis (7), and maintaining B cell memory IL-3, produced primarily by CD4 T cells (12–14), has been responses (8). However, due to the difficulty of obtaining a suffi- shown to be pivotal in expanding basophils. In vitro, IL-3 has been cient numbers of basophils, basophil biology has not yet been stud- demonstrated to induce basophil differentiation and to enhance ied extensively. acute IL-4 production in mouse basophils (15–17). Galli and col- Basophils are a minor cell population, constituting Ͻ1% of pe- leagues (18) reported that mice lacking IL-3 failed to show in- ripheral blood and bone marrow cells. Basophils are normally gen- creased numbers of basophils and failed to expel nematode Strong- erated from GMPs, which also give rise to neutrophils, monocytes, lyoides. Nonetheless, mechanisms underlying basophil expansion eosinophils, and mast cells. These cells share many common char- remain obscure. Mature basophils have a short half-life and re- acteristics with mast cells, such as expression of a high affinity spond to IL-3 stimulation with a limited proliferation capacity (13, immunoglobin (IgE) receptor (FcRI), and contain many of the 19). Thus, it is likely that IL-3 might induce basophil expansion by granules that can be found in mast cells (9, 10). Basophils expand enhancing basophil lineage commitment. In this study, we report that administrating the IL-3 complex (IL-3 plus anti-IL-3 Ab) in vivo greatly facilitated the differenti- *Division of Allergy and Immunology, Departments of Medicine, National Jewish 4 Health, Denver, CO 80206; †Departments of Medicine, Case Western Reserve Uni- ation of GMPs into basophil lineage-restricted progenitors (BaPs) versity, Cleveland, OH 44106; ‡Blood Research Institute, Blood Center of Wisconsin, specifically in a STAT5 signaling-dependent manner and increased § Milwaukee, WI 53226; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Med- the number of basophil/mast cell progenitors (BMCPs) in the ical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226; and ¶Integrated Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80206 spleen. We showed that GMPs, but not common myeloid progen- Received for publication August 29, 2008. Accepted for publication December itors (CMPs), expressed low levels of IL-3 receptor. The IL-3 re- 22, 2008. ceptor expression was dramatically up-regulated in BaPs, but not The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page eosinophil lineage-restricted progenitors (EoPs). We showed that charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance ϳ38% of BMCPs expressed the IL-3 receptor. The IL-3 receptor with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. expression patterns might explain why IL-3 specifically expanded 1 This work is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health R01 AI48568 and R01 AI068083 (H.H.), R01 HL073284 and R01 AI079087 (D.W.), Scholar Award basophils in vivo. from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (D.W.), and R01DK059380 (K.B.). 2 Current address: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3-5-8 Saiwai- cho, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. 4 Abbreviations used in this paper: BaP, basophil lineage-restricted progenitor; 3 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Hua Huang, Departments of BMCP, basophil/mast cell progenitor; CMP, common myeloid progenitor; EoP, eo- Medicine and Immunology, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado sinophil lineage-restricted progenitor. Health Sciences Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206. E-mail address: [email protected] Copyright © 2009 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/09/$2.00 www.jimmunol.org/cgi/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.0802870 2836 BASOPHIL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION Downloaded from http://www.jimmunol.org/ by guest on September 26, 2021 FIGURE 1. IL-3 dramatically and specifically increases the percentage and number of basophils. A, C57BL/6J mice were or were not injected with IL-3 alone, anti-IL-3 Ab alone or IL-3 mixed with anti-IL-3 Ab (IL-3 complex) i.v. via a tail vein. Three days after injection, the bone marrow cells were isolated and stained with PE-labeled anti-FcRI␣ and FITC-labeled anti-c-kit Abs. Basophils were defined as FcRI␣ϩc-kitϪ. Data are representative of five independent experiments. B, A time course analysis of basophil numbers in the bone marrow. Two to five mice were used for each time point. Error bars show the SD from two to five mice. C, C57BL/6J mice were or were not injected with the IL-3 complex. Three days after injection, the bone marrow, peripheral blood, spleen, and peritoneal cavity cells were isolated and stained with PE-labeled anti-FcRI␣ and FITC-labeled anti-c-kit Abs for basophil or mast detection or with PE-labeled anti-Siglec-F Ab for eosinophils detection. Mast cells were defined as FcRI␣ϩc-kitϩ cells. Eosinophils were marked as Siglec-Fϩ cells. D, C57BL/6J mice were or were not injected with the IL-3 complex. The total number of basophil, eosinophil, and mast cell were shown. Error bars show the SD from two to five mice. p values were analyzed using Student’s t test. Data are representative of three independent experiments. Materials and Methods with FITC-labeled anti-c-kit (2B8), biotin-labeled anti-FcRI␣ (MAR-1), and Mice PE-labeled Siglec-F (E50–2440) Abs, followed by streptavidin-allophyco- cyanin. Basophils were further characterized with PE-labeled anti-Thy1.2 C57BL/6J and B6.SJL-Ptprca Pepcb/BoyJ (CD45.1) mice were purchased (30-H12) or PE-labeled anti-CD49b (DX5) Abs. Basophils were defined as from The Jackson Laboratory. A pair of STAT5ϩ/Ϫ breeder mice (20) was FcRI␣ϩc-kitϪ, while mast cells were defined as FcRI␣ϩc-kitϩ cells. Eo- provided by Dr. Lothar Hennighausen of the National Institutes of Health sinophils were marked as Siglec-Fϩ or Siglec-Fϩ and CCR3ϩ cells (22, (Bethesda, Maryland). These mice have been bred and maintained under 23). For detecting donor-derived basophils, Pacific Blue-labeled anti- pathogen-free conditions at the animal facility of National Jewish Health.