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Colleges of
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Pharmacy and
Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea;
Department of Pharmacy, Sahm-Yook University, Seoul, South Korea; and
Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, National Cancer Institutes, Frederick, MD 21702
Early T progenitors in the thymus have been reported to have the capacity to develop into B cells, thymic dendritic cells, and NK cells. Here we describe conditions that induce early T progenitors to develop into macrophages. Initially, we observed that early T progenitors could be induced to develop into macrophages by cytokines produced from a thymic stromal cell line, TFGD, and later we found that the cytokine mixture of M-CSF plus IL-6 plus IL-7 also induced macrophage differentiation from pro-T cells. M-CSF by itself was unable to induce macrophage differentiation from early T progenitors. To correlate this observation with the developmental potential of early T progenitors, mouse embryonic thymocytes were sorted into four populations, pro-T1 to pro-T4, based on the expression of CD44 and CD25, and then cultured with TFGD culture supernatant. We found that pro-T1 and pro-T2 cells, but not pro-T3 and pro-T4 cells, generate macrophages. Limiting dilution analysis of the differentiation capability of sorted pro-T2 cells also confirmed that pro-T2 cells could generate macrophages. These results suggest that T cells and thymic macrophages could originate from a common intrathymic precursor.
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