A highly efficacious lymphocyte chemoattractant, stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1)

CC Bleul, RC Fuhlbrigge, JM Casasnovas… - The Journal of …, 1996 - rupress.org
The Journal of experimental medicine, 1996rupress.org
Chemotactic factors are postulated to direct emigration of lymphocytes from the blood stream
into sites of inflammation. Members of a family of chemotactic cytokines, termed chemokines,
have been shown to attract lymphocytes but efficacy, ie, the maximal percentage of attracted
cells, has been low. We have identified a highly efficacious lymphocyte chemotactic activity
in the supernatants of the murine bone marrow stroma cell line MS-5 which attracts 10-fold
more lymphocytes in vitro than currently described lymphocyte chemoattractants. Purification …
Chemotactic factors are postulated to direct emigration of lymphocytes from the blood stream into sites of inflammation. Members of a family of chemotactic cytokines, termed chemokines, have been shown to attract lymphocytes but efficacy, i.e., the maximal percentage of attracted cells, has been low. We have identified a highly efficacious lymphocyte chemotactic activity in the supernatants of the murine bone marrow stroma cell line MS-5 which attracts 10-fold more lymphocytes in vitro than currently described lymphocyte chemoattractants. Purification of this chemotactic activity revealed identity to stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1). SDF-1 acts on lymphocytes and monocytes but not neutrophils in vitro and is both a highly efficacious and highly potent mononuclear cell attractant in vivo. In addition, SDF-1 induces intracellular actin polymerization in lymphocytes, a process that is thought to be a prerequisite for cell motility. Since SDF-1 is expressed constitutively in a broad range of tissues it may have a role in immune surveillance and in basal extravasation of lymphocytes and monocytes rather than in inflammation.
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