Pre-B-cell growth stimulating factor

Nagasawa T, Kikutani H, Kishimoto T. Molecular cloning and structure of a pre-B-cell growth-stimulating factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994 91 2305-2309. 

Egawa T, Kawabata K, Kawamoto H, et al. The earliest stages of B cell development require a chemokine stromal cell-derived factor/pre-B cell growth-stimulating factor. Immunity 2001 15 323-334. 

Egawa, T., Kawabata, K., Kawamoto, H., Amada, K., Okamoto, R., Fujii, N., Kishimoto, T., Katsura, Y., and Nagasawa, T. (2001). The earliest stages of B-cell development require a chemokine stromal cell-derived factor/pre-B-cell growth-stimulating factor. Irmnunity 15, 323-334. 

Nagasawa, T., Nakajuma, T., Tachibana, K., lizasa, H., Bleul, C. C., Yoshie, O., Matsushima, K., Yoshida, N., Springer, T. A., and Kishimoto, T. (1996b). Molecular cloning and characterization of murine pre-B cell growth stimulating factory stromal cell-derived factor 1 entry coreceptor fusin. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 93, 14726-14729. 

Interleukin-7 (lL-7) plays an important role in stimulating the growth and differentiation of pre-B cells in the bone marrow (H15, S56). The major source of IL-7 in the bone marrow appears to be stromal cells (HIO, K14), upon which B-cell development in the bone marrow appears to be dependent (S56). IL-7 may also play a role in stimulating development of thymocytes (E14,03, S2) and also appears to stimulate proliferation and differentiation of mature T lymphocytes (B33, C18). Receptors for human IL-7 have been identified, cloned, and assigned to the hemopoietic growth factor receptor family (G17). 

Bose S, Basu M, Banerjee AK (2004) Role of nucleolin in human parainfluenza virus type 3 infection of human lung epithelial cells. J Virol 78 8146-8158 Bouche G, Caizergues-Ferrer M, Bugler B, Amalric F (1984) Interrelations between the maturation of a 100 kDa nucleolar protein and pre rRNA synthesis in CHO cells. Nucleic Acids Res 12 3025-3035 Bouche G, Gas N, Prats H, Baldin V, Tauber JP, Teissie J, Amalric F (1987) Basic fibroblast growth factor enters the nucleolus and stimulates the transcription of ribosomal genes in ABAE cells undergoing GO-Gl transition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 84(19) 6770-6774. 

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