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Adherent Cells Generated During Long-Term Culture of Human Umbilical Cord Blood CD34⁺ Cells Have Characteristics of Endothelial Cells and Beneficial Effect on Cord Blood Ex Vivo Expansion

^a Department of Pediatrics,
^b Obstetrics/Gynecology,
^c Clinical Pathology,
^d Hematology/Oncology,
^e Medical Research Center, College of Medicine, Ewha Women’s University;
^f Department of Cell Biology and Immunology, Asan Institute for Life Sciences; University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea;
^g Department of Hematology, Chungnam University, Dae-Jeon, Korea;
^h Graduate School of Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Key Words. Cord blood CD34 • Ex vivo expansion • Adherent endothelial cell • Apoptosis • Long-term liquid culture

Correspondence: Chu-Myong Seong, M.D., Dept. of Hematology/Oncology, Ewha Wowen’s University, Mock-Dong Hospital, Yangchun-Ku, Mock-6-Dong 911-1, Seoul, Korea 158-056. Telephone: 82-2-650-5015; Fax : 82-2-650-5062; e-mail: cmseong{at}ewha.ac.kr.

Hematopoiesis depends on the association of hematopoietic stem cells with stromal cells that constitute the hematopoietic microenvironment. The in vitro development of the endothelial cell from umbilical cord blood (UCB) is not well established and has met very limited success. In this study, UCB CD34⁺ cells were cultured for 5 weeks in a stroma-free liquid culture system using thrombopoietin, flt3 ligand, and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor. By week 4-5, we found that firmly adherent fibroblast-like cells were established. These cells showed characteristics of endothelial cells expressing von Willebrand factor, human vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, human intracellular adhesion molecule-1, human CD31, E-selectin, and human macrophage. Furthermore, when comparing an ex vivo system without an established endothelial monolayer to an ex vivo system with an established endothelial monolayer, better expansion of total nucleated cells, CD34⁺ cells, and colony-forming units (CFUs)-granulocyte-macrophage and CFUs-granulocyte-erythroid-megakaryocyte-macrophage were found during culture. This phenomenon was in part due to the fact that a significant reduction of apoptotic fractions was found in the CD34⁺ cells, which were cultured on the adherent monolayer for up to 5 weeks. To gather quantitative data on the number of endothelial cells derived from a given number of CD34 cells, we performed limiting dilution assay by using Poisson distribution: the number of tested cells (linear scale) producing a 37% negative culture (logarithmic scale) is the number of cells containing one endothelial cell. By this method, one endothelial cell may be found from 314 CD34⁺ cells after 5 weeks of culture. These results suggest that the UCB CD34⁺ cell fraction contains endothelial cell precursors, establishing the hematopoietic microenvironment and providing the beneficial effects through downregulating apoptosis on UCB expansion protocols. These observations may provide insight for future cellular therapy or graft engineering.

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