The Journal of Immunology, Vol 148, Issue 5 1416-1422, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Inhibition of apoptosis by calcium ionophores in IL-3-dependent bone marrow cells is dependent upon production of IL-4+

G Rodriguez-Tarduchy, P Malde, A Lopez-Rivas and MK Collins
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

Calcium ionophores inhibit apoptosis in the IL-3-dependent cell line BAF3 and maintain the cells in a viable noncycling state. In this report, an identical effect of ionophore was also demonstrated on the multipotent IL-3-dependent progenitor cell line FDCP-MIX and on the primary IL-3-dependent cell population that could be cultured from murine bone marrow. Inhibition of apoptosis required extracellular calcium and could be blocked by cyclosporin A. Nuclei from IL-3- dependent cells were found to lack a calcium-activatable nuclease that degrades chromatin in the linker region between nucleosomes, unlike the nuclei of lymphoid cells. The mechanism of action of calcium ionophore could be divided into two distinct steps. First, ionophore induced the production of a survival factor that stimulated DNA synthesis and was identified as IL-4. Second, ionophore inhibited the cell cycle of the various IL-3-dependent cells. IL-4 production could be inhibited by cyclosporin A and required extracellular calcium, whereas cell cycle arrest did not. This implied that factor production was the step that was necessary for inhibition of apoptosis and maintenance of cell viability. This was confirmed by the use of an anti-IL-4R antibody, which blocked the inhibition of apoptosis induced by calcium ionophores.

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