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A constitutively activated erythropoietin receptor stimulates proliferation and contributes to transformation of multipotent, committed nonerythroid and erythroid progenitor cells.

Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

ABSTRACT

If the env gene of spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) is replaced by a cDNA encoding a constitutively active form of the erythropoietin receptor, EPO-R(R129C), the resultant recombinant virus, SFFVcEPO-R, induces transient thrombocytosis and erythrocytosis in infected mice. Clonogenic progenitor cell assays of cells from the bone marrow and spleens of these infected mice suggest that EPO-R(R129C) can stimulate proliferation of committed megakaryocytic and erythroid progenitors as well as nonerythroid multipotent progenitors. From the spleens of SFFVcEPO-R-infected mice, eight multiphenotypic immortal cell lines were isolated and characterized. These included primitive erythroid, lymphoid, and monocytic cells. Some expressed proteins characteristic of more than one lineage. All cell lines resulting from SFFVcEPO-R infection contained a mutant form of the p53 gene. However, in contrast to infection by SFFV, activation of PU.1 gene expression, by retroviral integration, was not observed. One cell line had integrated a provirus upstream of the fli-1 gene, in a location typically seen in erythroleukemic cells generated by Friend murine leukemia virus infection. This event led to increased expression of fli-1 in this cell line. Thus, infection by SFFVcEPO-R can induce proliferation and lead to transformation of nonerythroid as well as very immature erythroid progenitor cells. The sites of proviral integration in clonal cell lines are distinct from those in SFFV-derived lines.

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