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The K-562 cell line is a culture of human leukemia stem cells originally derived from a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast crisis. We have subjected such cells, in the log phase of growth, to countercurrent distribution in a charge-sensitive dextran-polyethylene glycol aqueous-phase system, a method that fractionates cells on the basis of subtle differences in their surface properties, and found that: (1) The cell population is heterogeneous since it is composed of cells with different partition ratios. (2) There is a correlation between increasing cell partition ratios and increasing cell electrophoretic mobilities. (3) Cells under different parts of the distribution curve have dissimilar ratios of cells in different parts of the cell cycle, a phenomenon that may, at least partially, be the basis for the subfractionation of these cells. There is a clear tendency for cells in G0+G1+early S to decrease and for those in late S+G2+M to increase with increasing partition ratios. (4) Sialic acid is a major surface charge component of the cells as evidenced by a dramatic drop in their partition ratios after treatment with neuraminidase.
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Walter, H., Al-Romaihi, F.A., Krob, E.J. et al. Fractionation of K-562 cells on the basis of their surface properties by partitioning in two-polymer aqueous-phase systems. Cell Biophysics 10, 217–232 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02797342
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Index Entries
- Aqueous-phase systems
- cell partitioning
- cultured (K-562) cells
- cell fractionation
- cell-cycle-dependent cell fractionation
- cell surface properties
- countercurrent distribution, separation of cells by
- dextran
- electrophoretic mobility, of fractionated cells
- natural killer (NK) cells, susceptibility of fractionated K-562 cells to
- polyethylene glycol
- sialic acid