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P Constantoulakis, M Walmsley, R Patient, T Papayannopoulou, T Enver and G Stamatoyannopoulos
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
Established cell lines were screened for secretion of activities than can
stimulate fetal hemoglobin (HbF) production in adult burst-forming
unit-erythroid (BFUe) cultures. Conditioned media from four cell lines, a
human teratocarcinoma, an osteosarcoma, a bladder cell carcinoma, and
feline leukemia virus (FeLV) A-infected feline fibroblasts (FEF-A cells),
consistently increased the relative production of fetal globin in
BFUe-derived colonies. In vitro translation of RNA from these cells in
Xenopus oocytes yielded products that increased the gamma to gamma+beta
ratio in adult erythroid colonies. These results demonstrate that a variety
of cell lines produce factors that stimulate the production of HbF in
vitro. The genes of such factors could be isolated by expression cloning of
cDNA from cell lines using the Xenopus oocyte system.
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