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Mol Cell Biol. 1989 January; 9(1): 204-213

Mechanism of autocrine stimulation in hematopoietic cells producing interleukin-3 after retrovirus-mediated gene transfer.

Clinical Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

ABSTRACT

Endogenous expression of the interleukin-3 (IL3) gene introduced with a retrovirus vector renders hematopoietic cells autonomous of exogenous growth factor. To investigate the mechanism of autocrine stimulation, 25 clones were isolated after retrovirus transduction of IL3 into 32D-cl23 or FDC-P1 cells. Medium conditioned by these autonomous IL3-producing clones supported the growth of factor-dependent 32D cells. Although there was a severalfold variation in the amount of IL3 secreted (some clones secreted barely detectable levels), the doubling time of each clone in the absence of added IL3 was identical to that of the parental cell line maximally stimulated by exogenous IL3. Concentrated monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, both highly effective in neutralizing exogenous IL3, were assayed for ability to inhibit autocrine growth. Minimal inhibitory effects were observed only on washed autocrine clones secreting low levels of IL3. To test the activity of cytoplasmically synthesized IL3, the nucleotides encoding the signal sequence of IL3 were deleted and replaced with an in-frame ATG in the context of a consensus translation initiation sequence. Ten 32D clones expressing this restructured IL3 genome were obtained. Despite the presence of biologically active IL3 in cell lysates, all clones remained dependent on exogenous IL3, with the same dose-response as that found for 32D cells. Our data are most compatible with a mechanism whereby endogenously produced IL3 interacts with its receptor prior to surface display.

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