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International Journal of Cell Cloning, Vol 7, 100-110, Copyright © 1989 by AlphaMed Press

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Removal of peripheral blood monocytes by phenylalanine methyl ester has no effect on the colony growth of hematopoietic progenitor cells

P Law, GN Schwartz, T Alsop, LM Haiber, DM Smith and DC Dooley
American Red Cross, Jerome H. Holland Laboratory for Biomedical Sciences, Rockville, Maryland 20855.

Purification of hematopoietic cells often includes an adherence step for the removal of monocytes. Recent studies have shown that some hematopoietic cells are adherent and that plastic adhesion might activate monocyte/macrophage for cytokine production. We investigated the possibility of using L-phenylalanine methyl ester (PME) as an alternative approach to monocyte removal, particularly for large-scale cell separations. Cell yield, extent of monocyte removal and cloning efficiency of colony-forming progenitor cells were compared to that produced by plastic adhesion. Starting with mononuclear cells (MNC) from adult peripheral blood, cell recovery after PME treatment was higher than that achieved with adherence and fewer monocytes were present. Cloning efficiency of the granulocyte-monocyte colony-forming progenitor cells (CFU-gm) was not affected by the PME treatment. PME treatment and plastic adhesion of low-density cord blood cells produced comparable cell recovery, monocyte depletion and cloning efficiencies for CFU-gm and burst forming units for erythroid progenitor cells (BFU- e). The PME procedure was optimized for the purification of hematopoietic cells from large quantities (less than 1 x 10(9)) of low density. T cell-depleted peripheral blood MNC containing 60% to 85% monocytes. Compared to two cycles of plastic adhesion, PME treatment permitted higher cell recovery (5.9% vs. 1.3%), lower monocyte contamination (4.5% vs. 10.7%) and substantial cost, time and labor savings without compromising CFU-gm growth.


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