Mock retroviral infection alters the developmental potential of murine bone marrow stem cells

Retroviral vectors were used to introduce an activated ras gene into murine pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells. We attempted to reconstitute the hemopoietic system of lethally irradiated mice with isolated spleen colonies obtained in vivo after injection of infected bone marrow cells. Spleen colonies derived from infected bone marrow were inefficient in promoting long-term survival of irradiated hosts. This loss of reconstitutive capacity of spleen colonies was not due to the retroviral infection per se but to the in vitro culture of spleen colony precursors. Incubation for 24 h in the presence of fetal calf serum and interleukin-3 without virus-producing cells was sufficient to abolish completely the reconstitutive capacity of spleen colonies while maintaining both self-renewal and pluripotential capacities of spleen colony precursors. These results show that the in vitro manipulation of stem cells that is included in current protocols for retroviral infection can modify the developmental potential of these cells. This finding clearly indicates that the use of retroviral vectors can introduce a bias in the analysis of hemopoiesis.

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