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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 10, Pages 2750-2755Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201243116
Keywords
Axl; CD34(+); HPC; FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3); NK cell
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- National Institutes of Health [CA16058, CA95426, CA68458, CA09338, CA155521]
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Activation of the fibromyalgia syndrome-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) by its ligand, FLT3 ligand (FL), strongly augments the development of natural killer (NK) cells from human CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) in the presence of IL-15, compared with NK-cell development in the presence of IL-15 alone. In this study, we observed that blocking the receptor tyrosine kinase Axl/Gas6 pathway with a soluble Axl-IgG1 Fc fusion protein (Axl-Fc) in the presence of FL significantly diminished the absolute number of CD3(-)CD56(+) NK cells derived from human CD34(+) HPCs. Axl-Fc reduced the expression levels of the IL-2/15 receptor chain (CD122) and chain (CD132) induced by activation of FLT3 and consequently reduced the frequency of NK precursor cells responding to IL-15. Furthermore, Axl-Fc diminished FL-induced FLT3 phosphorylation and impeded the physical interaction between Axl and FLT3 in CD34(+) HPCs. Collectively, our data suggest that the Axl/Gas6 pathway contributes to normal human NK-cell development at least in part via its positive regulatory effect on FLT3 signaling in CD34(+) HPCs.
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