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Abstract
We describe here the modulatory activity of human peripheral blood natural killer (NK) cells on the growth and differentiation of myeloid progenitor cells at different stages of maturation. NK-enriched cell fractions containing 54 to 75% large granular lymphocytes (LGL) and displaying high levels of NK activity significantly inhibited the growth of late (7 day) granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cells (CFU-GM) from about 50% of normal human bone marrow samples. However, the same fractions strongly enhanced the growth of early (14 day) stem cells from peripheral blood. Enhancing activity on early CFU-GM from blood was greater in highly purified NK cell preparations containing 96% LGL than in NK-depleted T cell preparations from the same donors. Analogous to the results when using the NK-enriched fractions, the NK-purified preparations inhibited late CFU-GM and stimulated the early ones. We conclude from these observations that human LGL have a modulatory effect on myelopoiesis depending on the maturation stage of the progenitor cell.
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