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Acidic isoferritin (AIF) has been shown to be released by cells from patients with leukemia and to have an inhibitory effect on the growth of normal granulomonocytic (GM) progenitors (leukemia-inhibitory activity) during the S phase of the cell cycle. AIF is also produced by normal mature cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage. We studied the effects of AIF on the differentiation of normal GM progenitors and found an increase in the number of mature cells in AIF-exposed cultures. This increase did not occur when AIF was pretreated with anti-heart ferritin antiserum or when basic isoferritin was used in the place of AIF. The influence of AIF was not mimicked by removing S phase cells by pretreatment with a pulse of high specific activity tritiated thymidine. Thus, the apparent differentiation-stimulating effect of AIF is not likely to be due to selective removal of immature dividing cells. The results suggest that AIF-inhibitory activity on the proliferation of GM progenitors might at least in part be mediated by a stimulus for differentiation of the target cells, thus regulating the number of mature cells which might be formed by a single progenitor cell.
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