Originally published online as doi:10.1189/jlb.0803363 on November 11, 2003
Published online before print November 11, 2003
(Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 2003;74:1139-1143.)
© 2003
by Society for Leukocyte Biology
Cyclin D2 controls B cell progenitor numbers
Azim Mohamedali*,
Inês Soeiro
,
Nicholas C. Lea*,
Janet Glassford
,
Lolita Banerji
,
Ghulam J. Mufti*,
Eric W.-F. Lam
and
N. Shaun B. Thomas*,1
* Department of Haematological Medicine, Leukaemia Sciences, Guys, Kings, St. Thomas School of Medicine, Rayne Institute, London, United Kingdom; and
Cancer ResearchUK Labs and Section of Cancer Cell Biology, Imperial College School of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
1Correspondence: Department of Haematological Medicine, Leukaemia Sciences, Guys, Kings, St. Thomas School of Medicine, Rayne Institute, 123 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9RS, UK. E-mail: nicholas.s.thomas{at}kcl.ac.uk

ABSTRACT
Cyclin D2 affects B cell proliferation and differentiation in
vivo. It is rate-limiting for B cell receptor (BCR)-dependent
proliferation of B cells, and
cyclin D2-/- mice lack CD5+(B1)
B lymphocytes. We show here that the bone marrow (BM) of
cyclin D2-/- mice contains half the numbers of Sca1+B220+ B cell progenitors
but normal levels of Sca1+ progenitor cells of other lineages.
In addition, clonal analysis of BM from the
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ mice confirmed that there were fewer B cell progenitors
(B220+) in the
cyclin D2-/- mice. In addition, the colonies
from cyclin D2
-/- mice were less mature (CD19
lo) than those
from cyclin D2
+/+ mice (CD19
Hi). The number of mature B2 B cells
in vivo is the same in
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ animals.
Lack of cyclin D2 protein may be compensated by cyclin D3, as
cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk)6 coimmunoprecipitates with cyclin
D3 but not cyclin D1 from BM mononuclear cells of
cyclin D2-/- mice. It is active, as endogenous retinoblastoma protein is
phosphorylated at the cdk6/4-cyclin D-specific sites, S
807/811.
We conclude that cyclin D2 is rate-limiting for the production
of B lymphoid progenitor cells whose proliferation does not
depend on BCR signaling.
Key Words: mouse bone marrow Sca1+ B lymphocytes cellular proliferation

INTRODUCTION
Hematopoietic stem cells divide infrequently [
1
2
3
4
] yet
are able to support the production of a huge number of mature
hematopoietic cells each day. The molecular mechanisms that
control entry of stem cells into the cell cycle and subsequent
progenitor cell proliferation are critical for maintaining normal
hematopoiesis. The retinoblastoma protein family (pRb, p130)
prevents cell proliferation, and we showed previously that p130.E2F4.DP1
is the predominant complex in human quiescent CD34+ progenitor
cells [
5
]. In response to mitogenic stimulus, the pRb and p130
proteins are inactivated through phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent
kinases (cdk; reviewed in ref. [
6
]). This is initiated by cdk4/6-cyclin
D2 and cdk4/6-cyclin D3 and is completed by cdk2-cyclin E. Inactivation
of pRb and p130 allows activation of E2F-regulated genes, and
cells progress from G
0 through G
1 into S phase (reviewed in
refs. [
7
,
8
]).
We have previously studied the mechanism by which ligation of the BCR and other mitogens regulate B lymphocyte proliferation, survival, and development. Using mouse splenic B cells, we established how signals emanating from BCR regulate the pRb pathway to induce proliferation in primary, resting, mature B cells [9
10
11
]. We have shown that genetic ablation of the cyclin D2 gene causes a depletion of the B1 (CD5+) population of B cells and a defect in immunoglobulin G (IgG) class-switching [12
]. We also found that the existence of B2 cells in cyclin D2-/- mice was a result of compensation by cyclin D3, induced in response to signaling through the BCR [11
]. B lymphocytes from mice null for the Rho family guanine-nucleotide exchange factor, Vav, are defective in their ability to proliferate in response to BCR cross-linking. These mice have a depletion of CD5+ (B1) lymphocytes and defective IgG class-switching. We have also demonstrated that the inability of vav-/- B cells to proliferate in response to BCR ligation was a result of lack of cyclin D2 induction [13
]. These results collectively indicate that cyclin D2 is an essential downstream target of the BCR signaling cascade and has an important role in the proliferation, survival, and development of B cells, in particular, the CD5+ subset.
In this report, we show that the phenotype of BM from cyclin D2-/- mice contains half the numbers of Sca1+B220+ progenitors but normal levels of Sca1+ progenitor cells of other lineages. This was further confirmed with clonogenic assays with whole BM from cyclin D2+/+ and cyclin D2-/- mice, and in addition, a greater proportion of progenitor colonies from cyclin D2+/+ mice were more mature (CD19Hi). The number of mature B2 B cells in vivo was the same in cyclin D2-/- and cyclin D2+/+ animals. In addition, cdk6 coimmunoprecipitated with cyclin D3 but not cyclin D1 from BM mononuclear cells (MNC) of cyclin D2-/- mice and was active, as endogenous pRb was phosphorylated at the cdk6/4-cyclin D-specific sites, S807/811. This shows that lack of cyclin D2 was likely to be compensated by cyclin D3. We can, therefore, conclude that cyclin D2 is rate-limiting for the production of B lymphoid progenitor cells whose proliferation does not depend on BCR signaling.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Cell lines
The human B lymphoblastoid cell line Daudi was maintained in
RPMI 1640/10% (v/v) fetal calf serum (FCS; Sigma Chemical Co.,
St. Louis, MO) and murine NIH-3T3 cells, in Dulbeccos
modified Eagles medium/10% (v/v) FCS (Sigma Chemical
Co.).
Purification of murine Sca1+ hematopoietic progenitor cells
All cyclin D2-/- mice (C57bl/6J background) [14
] were compared with age-matched cyclin D2+/+ littermates (34 months old) and were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction. BM was flushed from two femurs with Iscoves modified Dulbeccos medium/20% (v/v) FCS (Myoclone Super Plus)/penicillin/streptomycin (Life Sciences, Carlsbad, CA). The Sca1+ cells were bound to Sca1 MultiSort micro beads (Miltenyi Biotec, Auburn, CA) and isolated by passage through two columns (AutoMACS, Miltenyi Biotec), according to the manufacturers protocol. The purity was typically >95%, as determined by flow cytometry with Sca1phycoerythrin (PE) versus isotype-control antibody (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA).
Immunophenotyping Sca1+ cells
Cells of different lineages in the Sca1+ cell population isolated from individual mice were assayed by flow cytometry. Antibodies used were CD3efluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC; T cell), CD45R (B220)FITC (B cell), CD27PE (lymphoid), CD11bPE (myeloid), Ly-6GPE (myeloid), and Ter-119PE (erythroid) and the appropriate isotype-matched controls (BD Biosciences). Gates were set using the isotype-matched controls in each case.
Colony-forming assays
BM cells from cyclin D2-/- and cyclin D2+/+ mice (12,500 and 25,000 cells) were plated in duplicate in Methocult (Stem Cells Inc., Palo Alto, CA) media containing murine stem cell factor (mSCF; 50 ng/mL; R & D Systems, Minneapolis, MN), murine fetal liver tyrosine kinase-3 ligand (mflt-3; 50 ng/mL; R & D Systems), and murine interleukin-7 (mIL-7; 10 ng/mL; R & D Systems). Pre-B and colony-forming unit (cfu)granulocyte-erythrocyte-monocyte-megakaryocyte (GEMM) colonies were scored 89 days after plating. In addition, colonies were selected at random and analyzed by flow cytometry to confirm their identity. Individual colonies were harvested, washed with phosphate-buffered saline, and split into two aliquots. One aliquot was labeled with B220FITC and CD19PE antibodies (BD Biosciences), and the other was with the corresponding isotype controls (BD Biosciences). To compensate for the small number of cells, the antibodies were diluted 1:5 before staining. Individual colonies were analyzed by flow cytometry (FACSCaliber, BD Biosciences), and the mean fluorescent intensity (MFI) data were determined.
Immunoprecipitations and Western blotting
Immunoprecipitations were performed with 15 x 106 cells lysed in buffer containing 0.5% (v/v) Nonidet P-40 (see ref. [15
]). Antibodies used were 50 µg agarose-conjugated anti-Ets1/2 (C-275 Ac) or cdk6 (C-21 Ac; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA). Antibodies used for Western blotting (see ref. [15
]) recognize pRb phosphorylated at S807/811 (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA) [16
], pRb (PMG3245; BD-PharMingen, San Diego, CA), cyclin D1 (72-13G and HD11), cyclin D2 (M-20), cyclin D3 (18B6-10), cdk6 (C-21), and E2F-1 (C-20; Santa Cruz Biotechnology).
Statistics
A t-test of two sample populations assuming unequal variance was used to analyze statistical significance.

RESULTS
Activation of cdk6/4 by cyclin D2 is clearly important for regulating
the proliferation and maturation of B cells. Therefore, we wished
to determine whether cyclin D2 has a role during early stages
of B cell development in the BM. To this end, Sca1+ cells were
isolated from the BM of
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ mice.
The proportion of these progenitor cells committed to different
lineages was quantified by flow cytometric staining for CD3e
(T cell [
17
]), CD45R (B220; B cell [
18
]), CD27 (lymphoid,
mainly T [
19
]), CD11b (myeloid [
20
]), Ly-6G (myeloid [
21
]),
and Ter-119 (erythroid [
22
]). The number of Sca1+ cells isolated
from
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ mice was the same, but
cyclin D2-/- mice had half the number of Sca1+B220+ B cell progenitors.
In contrast, the numbers of Sca1+ cells from other lineages
were the same regardless of cyclin D2 status (
Fig. 1A
). Representative
flow cytometric data from one experiment are shown (of n=6 or
7), depicting the differences (
P<0.0045) between the Sca1+B220+
progenitors of
cyclin D2+/+ (30.6±3.6, mean±
SEM)
mice and the corresponding cells from the BM of
cyclin D2-/- mice (14.2±3.3). In comparison, there were no observable
differences in the proportions of the Sca+CD3+ or Sca+CD11b+
population in each animal
(Fig. 1B)
. From these data, we concluded
that cyclin D2 is limiting for maintaining the correct numbers
of B lymphoid progenitor cells and is not fully compensated
by other mechanisms.
To confirm these results, we analyzed the BM from the
cyclin D2-/- and
cylclin D2+/+ mice at a clonal level. Clonal analysis
of whole BM in methylcellulose medium, supplemented with cytokines
supporting B cell development, showed a striking difference
in the numbers and maturity of B cell colonies (B220+CD19+).
The colonies were scored by morphology and verified by flow
cytometric analysis of individual colonies.
Cyclin D2+/+ mice
had threefold more B cell colonies as compared with
cyclin D2-/- mice (
P<0.035), whereas there were no significant differences
in the number of cfuGEMM colonies (
Fig. 2A
). In addition,
B220+CD19+ colonies from
cyclin D2+/+ mice had a MFI of 164
± 21, n = 19, whereas colonies from
cyclin D2-/- mice
were significantly lower (MFI 91±15, n=22;
P<0.0068;
Fig. 2B
and 2C
). Analysis of the distribution of the MFI of
B220+CD19+ pre-B cell colonies showed that colonies from
cyclin D2+/+ mice exhibited a higher proportion of CD19+Hi
-1, whereas
colonies from the
cyclin D2-/- were mainly CD19+Lo
-1 (Fig. 2D)
.
This confirms a lineage-specific role of
cyclin D2 in B cell
maturation.
The numbers of more mature B cells (Sca1B220+) were the
same in
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ mice. This agrees with
our previous study [
12
], in which we showed that total B cell
numbers as well as pre-B (B220+IgM) and mature B (B220+IgM+)
cells in the BM did not depend on cyclin D2. Thus, to determine
the molecular mechanisms that compensate for lack of cyclin
D2 to produce normal numbers of pre-B and mature B cells, we
analyzed D-type cyclin-cdk complexes in Sca1+ and MNC from the
BM of
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ mice. Cell-cycle analysis
showed that 2030% of nucleated BM cells from
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ animals was in S, G
2/M cell-cycle phases (data
not shown). Cdk6 and/or cdk4 are active in these cells, as pRb
is phosphorylated at S
807/811 (a cdk4/6-cyclin D-specific site)
in
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ Sca1+ progenitor cells stimulated
to enter the cell cycle with cytokines in vitro (
Fig. 3A
; compare
days 0 and 3). Thus, another D-type cyclin must compensate for
the lack of
cyclin D2. Cyclin D1 is not normally present in
the BM, and it is not expressed abnormally to compensate for
the lack of cyclin D2, as judged by Western blotting with whole-cell
lysates or cdk6 immunoprecipitations of murine BM MNC
(Fig. 3B) . However, cyclin D1 was clearly detectable in the NIH-3T3
cell controls run on the same blot. We have shown that cyclin
D3 compensates functionally for the lack of cyclin D2 in mature,
classical B2 (CD5-ve) B lymphocytes from
cyclin D2-/- mice [
11
],
and so we determined whether cyclin D3 might also compensate
for cyclin D2 in murine BM cells. We could not detect cyclin
D3 in
cyclin D2-/- or
cyclin D2+/+ cells by Western blotting
of whole-cell lysates, but cyclin D3 was detectable in cdk6
immunoprecipitates
(Fig. 3B)
. We conclude that cdk6 is activated
by cyclin D3 in the absence of
cyclin D2, which leads to the
phosphorylation of pRb and allows the induction of E2F-regulated
genes, such as
E2F-1 (Fig. 3A)
. As we have shown for mature
B cells [
11
], such a compensatory mechanism would then allow
the cells to enter the cell cycle.

DISCUSSION
In the study presented here, we have investigated the role of
cyclin D2 in regulating primary, hematopoietic progenitor cells.
The functional importance of cyclin D2 is shown by the fact
that
cyclin D2-/- mice have half the number of Sca1+B220+ B
cell progenitor cells. This suggests that the other D-type cyclin,
cyclin D3, cannot fully compensate for the absence of cyclin
D2 in these B cell progenitors. It is also possible that the
absence of cyclin D2 expression affects only a subpopulation
of B cell progenitors, which are not essential for the development
of classical B2 B cells. Further work is required to determine
whether rescuing
cyclin D2-/- Sca1+B220+ BM cells with cyclin
D3 compensates for the loss of
cyclin D2 and restores normal
differentiation. We have previously shown that the numbers of
pre-B (B220+IgM) and mature B (B220+IgM+) cells in the
BM are the same in
cyclin D2-/- and
cyclin D2+/+ mice [
12
].
The data presented here show an important role for cyclin D2
in controlling the numbers of B cell precursors, but thereafter,
cyclin D2 is not rate-limiting for the expansion and differentiation
of these cells to immature pre-B cells. Analagous roles in hematopoietic
development have been described for other cell-cycle regulators,
including p21
Cip1 and p27
Kip1. In the
p21Cip1-/- mice, stem-cell
number was doubled, but the progenitor populations remained
unchanged [
23
], and the
p27Kip1-/- mice have normal stem-cell
pool but increased progenitor populations [
24
]. In both cases,
the number of mature cells in peripheral blood was normal, implying
that compensation for the functions of p21
Cip1 and p27
Kip1,
respectively, had taken place during maturation of each hematopoietic
lineage. Cell type-specific roles and functional compensation
by each of the three D-type cyclins during mouse development
were shown in mice only expressing one of the three cyclins.
The single cyclin expressed sufficed in most cell types, except
that cyclin D1-only mice developed megaloblastic anemia, cyclin
D2-only had neurological abnormalities, and cyclin D3-only lacked
normal cerebella [
25
]. Cell type-specific roles for cell-cycle
regulatory proteins have also been demonstrated in human cells.
Furukawa et al. [
26
] showed that there was selective up-regulation
of
cyclin D3 in megakaryocytes derived from CD34+ cells and
that blocking the induction of
cyclin D3 prevented megakaryocyte
differentiation.
The functional role of cyclin D2 in the proliferation and development of BCR-containing B cells has previously been documented [11
12
13
, 27
, 28
]. In the current study, we have shown that cyclin D2 has an important role in development of B cell progenitors, whose proliferation does not depend on BCR-derived signals. We demonstrated previously that CD5+ B1 cells are dependent on cyclin D2, whereas Sca1+B220+ progenitors and mature B2 cells can compensate by inducing cyclin D3. It is, however, unclear whether this decrease in B cell progenitors in cyclin D2-/- mice has any causative relationship with the decrease in CD5 +ve B1 B cells observed in the same knockouts. The cells in B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are CD5 +ve, and they are perceived as the malignant counterpart of normal CD5 +ve B1 B cells. Our data are therefore of potential therapeutic importance, as selective inhibitors of cyclin D2-dependent cdk activity would be expected to preferentially target the expansion of malignant B1 cells in patients with B cell CLL.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust
(N. S. B. T., A. M., and N. C. L.), Leukaemia Research Fund
(N. S. B. T., E. W-F. L., and J. G.), and Cancer ResearchUK
(E. W-F. L.). I. S. is supported by a Ph.D. studentship from
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia,
Portugal. A University of London Trust Postgraduate Studentship
supported L. B. We thank Piotr Sicinski for making the
cyclin D2-/- mice available, Nigel Westwood for help in isolating Sca1-positive
cells, and Stephen Devereux and our colleagues in Leukaemia
Sciences for critical comments on the manuscript.
Received August 1, 2003;
revised August 22, 2003;
accepted September 9, 2003.

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