The levels of soluble c-kit ligand (sKL), also known as Steel factor or stem cell factor, were measured in blood serum and long-term bone marrow culture supernatants of 81 patients with chronic idiopathic neutropenia (CIN) and 22 normal controls using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). We found that the levels of serum and culture supernatant sKL did not differ significantly between patients and control subjects and that both serum and supernatant values of the cytokine did not correlate with the number of circulating neutrophils. Furthermore, we found that the levels of the culture supernatant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), also measured by ELISA, were significantly increased in the patients compared to controls but individual G-CSF values did not correlate with the values of supernatant sKL. These findings suggest that sKL-producing cells continuously secrete sKL and that cytokine secretion is independent of the degree of neutropenia or the levels of supernatant G-CSF in patients with CIN.
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