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The Journal of Immunology, 2001, 166: 6647-6656.
Copyright © 2001 by The American Association of Immunologists

Induction of Telomerase Activity During Development of Human Mast Cells from Peripheral Blood CD34+ Cells: Comparisons with Tumor Mast-Cell Lines1

Cristina Chaves-Dias2,*, Thomas R. Hundley*, Alasdair M. Gilfillan{dagger}, Arnold S. Kirshenbaum{dagger}, Jose Renan Cunha-Melo3,*, Dean D. Metcalfe{dagger} and Michael A. Beaven4,*

* Laboratory of Immunology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and {dagger} Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892

To further characterize the development of mast cells from human hemopoietic pluripotent cells we have investigated the expression of telomerase activity in cultured human peripheral blood CD34+ cells, and CD34+/CD117+/CD13+ progenitor mast cells selected therefrom, with the idea that induction of telomerase is associated with clonal expansion of CD34+/CD117+/CD13+ cells. A rapid increase in telomerase activity preceded proliferation of both populations of cells in the presence of stem cell factor and either IL-3 or IL-6. The induction was transient, and telomerase activity declined to basal levels well before the appearance of mature mast cells. Studies with pharmacologic inhibitors suggested that this induction was initially dependent on the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase, but once cell replication was underway telomerase activity, but not cell replication, became resistant to the effects of inhibitors. Tumor mast cell lines, in contrast, expressed persistently high telomerase activity throughout the cell cycle, and this expression was unaffected by inhibitors of all known signaling pathways in mast cells even when cell proliferation was blocked for extended periods. These results suggest that the transient induction of telomerase activity in human progenitor mast cells was initially dependent on growth factor-mediated signals, whereas maintenance of high activity in tumor mast cell lines was not dependent on intracellular signals or cell replication.




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