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Roles of Integrins and CD44 on the Adhesion and Migration of Fetal Liver Cells to the Fetal Thymus¹

Naoto Kawakami^*, Fumiko Nishizawa^*, Naoki Sakane^*, Mutsumi Iwao^*, Kazutake Tsujikawa^*, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe and Hiroshi Yamamoto^2,*

^* Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Genome Information Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Adhesion and migration of mouse fetal liver (FL) cells to the thymus were investigated using cells from green fluorescent protein transgenic (GFP⁺) mice. FL cells from GFP⁺ embryos at 12 gestational days (E12) of mice were incubated with 2'-deoxyguanosine-treated fetal thymus lobe (from E14) by thymic repopulation (hanging drop) culture methods. GFP⁺ cells were observed in the thymus lobe at the end of the repopulation culture period. A large part of the infiltrated cells expressed CD44 until day 2 of culture on a permeable membrane, then lost the expression. CD25 expression was observed from day 1 to day 4. Around day 8, GFP⁺ cells became both CD4⁺ and CD8⁺. The results support the early observation of the sequential expression of CD44, CD25, and CD4/8 during the early stages of thymocyte development. When anti-CD44 mAb was added at the beginning of the repopulation culture period, GFP⁺ FL cells adhered to the surface of the thymus lobe but did not migrate into the thymus. Pretreatment of the thymus with hyaluronidase or hyaluronate produced results similar to the results of anti-CD44 treatment. On the other hand, the addition of anti-integrin ₄ mAb inhibited adhesion to the thymus, and almost no GFP⁺ cells were seen on the surface of the thymus lobe. The data suggest that integrin ₄ and CD44 play different roles, i.e., integrin ₄ is required for the adhesion of FL cells to the thymus lobe and CD44 is required for the migration of the cells into the thymus.

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