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Differential Kinetics of Primitive Hematopoietic Cells Assayed In Vitro and In Vivo During Serum-Free Suspension Culture of CD34⁺ Blood Progenitor Cells

^a Experimental Hematology Group, Department of Hematology/Oncology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany;
^b Department of Experimental Pharmacology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany;

Key Words. Hematopoietic progenitor cells • Serum-free medium • Transplantation • Ex vivo expansion

Correspondence: Dr. Reinhard Henschler, Department of Hematology/Oncology, University Medical Center, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.

So far, blood progenitor cells (BPC) expanded ex vivo in the absence of stromal cells have not been demonstrated to reconstitute hematopoiesis in myeloablated patients. To characterize the fate of early hematopoietic progenitor cells during ex vivo expansion in suspension culture, human CD34⁺-enriched BPC were cultured in serum-free medium in the presence of FLT3 ligand (FL), stem cell factor (SCF) and interleukin 3 (IL-3). Both CD34 surface expression levels and the percentage of CD34⁺ cells were continuously downregulated during the culture period. We observed an expansion of colony-forming units granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) and BFU-E beginning on day 3 of culture, reaching an approximate 2-log increase by days 5 to 7. Limiting dilution analysis of primitive in vitro clonogenic progenitors was performed through a week 6 cobblestone-area-forming cell (CAFC) assay, which has previously been shown to detect long-term bone marrow culture-initiating cells (LTC-IC). A maintenance or a slight (threefold) increase of week 6 CAFC/LTC-IC was found after one week of culture. To analyze the presence of BPC mediating in vivo engraftment, expanded CD34⁺ cells were transplanted into preirradiated NOD/SCID mice at various time points. Only CD34⁺ cells cultured for up to four days successfully engrafted murine bone marrow with human cells expressing myeloid or lymphoid progenitor phenotypes. In contrast, five- and seven-day expanded human BPC did not detectably engraft NOD/SCID mice. When FL, SCF and IL-3-supplemented cultures were performed for seven days on fibronectin-coated plastic, or when IL-3 was replaced by thrombopoietin, colony forming cells and LTC-IC reached levels similar to those of control cultures, yet no human cell engraftment was recorded in the mice. Also, culture in U-bottom microplates resulting in locally increased CD34⁺ cell density had no positive effect on engraftment. These results indicate that during ex vivo expansion of human CD34⁺ cells, CFC and LTC-IC numbers do not correlate with the potential to repopulate NOD/SCID mice. Our results suggest that ex vivo expanded BPC should be cultured for limited time periods only, in order to preserve bone-marrow-repopulating hematopoietic stem cells.

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