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Chen Z, Brand NJ, Chen A, Chen SJ, Tong JH, Wang ZY, Waxman S, Zelent A. Fusion between a novel Krüppel-like zinc finger gene and the retinoic acid receptor-alpha locus due to a variant t(11;17) translocation associated with acute promyelocytic leukaemia. EMBO J 1993; 12:1161-7. [PMID: 8384553 PMCID: PMC413318 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1993.tb05757.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 474] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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We have identified a unique case of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) with a t(11;17) reciprocal chromosomal translocation involving the retinoic acid receptor alpha (RAR alpha) and a previously uncharacterized zinc finger gene. As a result of this translocation, mRNAs containing the coding sequences of the new gene, fused in-frame either upstream of the RAR alpha B region or downstream from the unique A1 and A2 regions of the two major RAR alpha isoforms, are expressed from the rearranged alleles. The above gene, which we have termed PLZF (for promyelocytic leukaemia zinc finger), encodes a potential transcription factor containing nine zinc finger motifs related to the Drosophila gap gene Krüppel and is expressed as at least two isoforms which differ in the sequences encoding the N-terminal region of the protein. Within the haematopoietic system the PLZF mRNAs were detected in the bone marrow, early myeloid cell lines and peripheral blood mononuclear cells, but not in lymphoid cell lines or tissues. In addition, the PLZF mRNA levels were down-regulated in NB-4 and HL-60 promyelocytic cell lines in response to retinoic acid-induced granulocytic differentiation and were very low in mature granulocytes. Our results demonstrate for the first time the association of a variant chromosomal translocation involving the RAR alpha gene with APL, further implicating the RAR alpha in leukaemogenesis and also suggesting an important role for PLZF as well as retinoic acid and its receptors in myeloid maturation.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Cell Line
- Chimera
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Humans
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid
- Translocation, Genetic
- Tretinoin/metabolism
- Zinc Fingers/genetics
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- Z Chen
- Shanghai Institute of Haematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, China
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Kubota A, Okamura S, Shimoda K, Niho Y. Augmented production of interleukin 6 by co-culture of human bone marrow adherent cells and human leukemic cells. Biomed Pharmacother 1993; 47:379-84. [PMID: 8068859 DOI: 10.1016/0753-3322(93)90102-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Human Dexter-type culture of bone marrow (BM) cells maintains long-term hematopoiesis in the presence of an adherent stromal layer. These BM adherent cells produce hematopoietic growth factors constitutively or inducively and support developing hematopoietic cells. To elucidate the ability of cytokine production by BM adherent cells, the cytokine levels of the culture supernatant of BM adherent cells were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. Constitutive production of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin 6 (IL-6) by the unstimulated BM adherent cells was demonstrated. Levels of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) were below detectable levels (< 10 pg/ml). The IL-6 level was significantly increased in the co-culture supernatant with KG1 cells or U937 cells (P < 0.01: P < 0.05, respectively). Even when the adherent cells and cell line cells were separated by a membrane filter, the IL-6 level was significantly higher than the control culture (P < 0.01). Co-culture with these cell lines was supposed to induce the increased production of IL-6, which was mediated by some soluble cytokines. The GM-CSF level was not increased in the supernatant co-cultured with any of the cell lines, except with K562 cells. However, K562 cells alone secreted a detectable level of GM-CSF and the increased level of GM-CSF was considered to be due to the production of GM-CSF by K562 cells. G-CSF was not detectable in the supernatant co-cultured with any cell line cells. This result indicates that the cytokine production was regulated by the interaction of BM adherent cells and some leukemic cells.
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- A Kubota
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Xu YZ, Plunkett W. Modulation of deoxycytidylate deaminase in intact human leukemia cells. Action of 2',2'-difluorodeoxycytidine. Biochem Pharmacol 1992; 44:1819-27. [PMID: 1449536 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(92)90077-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Cellular metabolism studies had demonstrated previously that low cellular concentrations of 2',2'-difluorodeoxycytidine (dFdC) nucleotides are eliminated by deoxycytidylate deaminase (dCMPD), whereas dCMPD activity is inhibited at high cellular dFdC nucleotide levels (Heinemann et al., Cancer Res 52: 533-539, 1992). An assay for measuring dCMPD activity in intact human leukemia cells has now been developed to permit investigations of the interactions of dFdC nucleotides with dCMPD in intact cells in which the regulated nature of this enzyme was not disrupted. Using [14C]dCyd as the substrate, radioactivity that accumulated in dTTP was quantitated after high-pressure liquid chromotography by a radioactive flow detector. The assay was first characterized using either the dCMPD inhibitor tetrahydrodeoxyuridine (H4dUrd) which directly inhibits dCMPD, or thymidine and 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine (FdUrd) which indirectly inhibit and activate dCMPD, respectively, by affecting the cellular dCTP:dTTP value. Measured by this in situ assay, there was a strong correlation between dCMPD activity and dCTP:dTTP levels. Consistent with previous studies using partially purified enzyme, incubation of cells with dFdC resulted in a concentration-dependent inhibition of dCMPD in situ. The mechanism of modulation of dCMPD by dFdC, however, was clearly different from that of thymidine and FdUrd. In addition to the effect of dFdC on cellular dCTP:dTTP, our findings also suggested an additional inhibitory mechanism, possibly a direct interaction between dCMPD and dFdC 5'-triphosphate. Thus, results obtained using this direct assay of dCMPD in intact cells support the hypothesis that dCMPD is inhibited by nucleotides of dFdC.
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- Y Z Xu
- Department of Medical Oncology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030
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Sutherland DR, Fackler MJ, May WS, Matthews KE, Baker MA. Activated protein kinase C directly phosphorylates the CD34 antigen in acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells. Leuk Lymphoma 1992; 8:337-44. [PMID: 1283964 DOI: 10.3109/10428199209051012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The precursors of all blood cell lineages are contained within the 1-3% of bone marrow cells which express the CD34 antigen, and this population can reconstitute the hematopoietic system of lethally irradiated animals and humans. A potential regulatory role for the CD34 antigen in progenitor cell function and differentiation was indicated by our recent findings that the CD34 antigen can be phosphorylated in vivo to high stoichiometry in primitive CD34+ cell-lines by activated protein kinase C. To exclude the possibility that these effects were restricted to cell-lines, we have performed similar experiments on fresh cells from a patient with drug-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Similar to our previous findings, we found the CD34 antigen to be hyperphosphorylated in lymphoblasts labeled in the presence of active phorbols. The same peptides which were hyperphosphorylated in phorbol-stimulated cell-lines were also phosphorylated in phorbol-stimulated lymphoblasts. These data indicate that CD34 is a substrate molecule for PKC in fresh CD34+ lymphoblasts and underline the role of modulators of PKC activity in the biology of primitive leucocytes.
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Hosoi H, Imai M, Yamanaka M. The interferon-alpha 2b gene in Japanese patients with chronic viral hepatitis who developed antibodies after treatment with recombinant interferon-alpha 2a. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1992; 7:411-6. [PMID: 1515568 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1992.tb01010.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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DNA was extracted from leucocytes of 23 Japanese patients with chronic viral hepatitis who received treatment with recombinant interferon-alpha 2a (IFN-alpha 2a) and nine healthy controls, as well as eight human cell lines of Caucasian or African origin. A part of the gene encoding IFN-alpha 2 was amplified by polymerase chain reaction and the sequence of nucleotides 1-231 was determined. Interferon-alpha 2a, -alpha 2b and -alpha 2c genes were tested for in five clones each from a patient or control, or a cell line, based on adenine or guanine at nucleotide positions 68 and 101. The IFN-alpha 2b gene was detected in all 160 clones from 23 Japanese patients and nine controls, but the IFN-alpha 2a or -alpha 2c gene was not found in any. Of five cell lines derived from Caucasians, four exhibited only the IFN-alpha 2b gene, while the remaining one exhibited both IFN-alpha 2a and -alpha 2b genes. Of three cell lines derived from Africans, one each showed only the IFN-alpha 2b or -alpha 2c gene, and the remaining one both IFN-alpha 2b and -alpha 2c genes. The 23 patients with the IFN-alpha 2b gene and chronic viral hepatitis included 10 who developed antibodies against IFN after treatment with recombinant IFN-alpha 2a. These results indicated a distinct geographical distribution of the three IFN-alpha 2 genes, and suggested the use of a recombinant IFN-alpha 2 preparation in agreement with the IFN-alpha 2 gene possessed by the recipient to avoid antibody responses.
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- H Hosoi
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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A novel endothelial cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase with extracellular epidermal growth factor homology domains. Mol Cell Biol 1992. [PMID: 1312667 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.4.1698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Endothelial cell surfaces play key roles in several important physiological and pathological processes such as blood clotting, angiogenic responses, and inflammation. Here we describe the cloning and characterization of tie, a novel type of human endothelial cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase. The extracellular domain of the predicted tie protein product has an exceptional multidomain structure consisting of a cluster of three epidermal growth factor homology motifs embedded between two immunoglobulinlike loops, which are followed by three fibronectin type III repeats next to the transmembrane region. Additionally, a cDNA form lacking the first of the three epidermal growth factor homology domains was isolated, suggesting that alternative splicing creates different tie-type receptors. Cells transfected with tie cDNA expression vector produce glycosylated polypeptides of 117 kDa which are reactive to antisera raised against the tie carboxy terminus. The tie gene was located in chromosomal region 1p33 to 1p34. Expression of the tie gene appeared to be restricted in some cell lines; large amounts of tie mRNA were detected in endothelial cell lines and in some myeloid leukemia cell lines with erythroid and megakaryoblastoid characteristics. In addition, mRNA in situ studies further indicated the endothelial expression of the tie gene. The tie receptor tyrosine kinase may have evolved for multiple protein-protein interactions, possibly including cell adhesion to the vascular endothelium.
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A 41-kilodalton protein is a potential substrate for the p210bcr-abl protein-tyrosine kinase in chronic myelogenous leukemia cells. Mol Cell Biol 1992. [PMID: 1545812 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.3.1312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is characterized by a translocation involving the c-abl protein-tyrosine kinase gene. A chimeric mRNA is formed containing sequences from a chromosome 22 gene (bcr) at its 5' end and all but the variable exon 1 of c-abl sequence. The product of this mRNA, p210bcr-abl, has constitutively high protein-tyrosine kinase activity. We examined K562 cells and other lines established from CML patients for the presence of phosphotyrosine (P-Tyr)-containing proteins which might be p210bcr-abl substrates. Two-dimensional gel separation of 32P-labeled proteins followed by phosphoamino acid analysis of 25 phosphoproteins, which comprised the major alkali-stable phosphoproteins, indicated that three related proteins of 41 kDa are the most prominent P-Tyr-containing proteins detected by this method. The 41-kDa phosphoproteins are found in two other CML lines that we examined but not in lines of similar lineage isolated from patients with distinct leukemic disease. A protein that comigrates with the major form of pp41 (pp41A) and contains P-Tyr is also found in murine fibroblasts and B-lymphoid cells transformed by Abelson murine leukemia virus, which encodes the v-abl protein, and in platelet-derived growth factor-treated fibroblasts, in which it has been described previously. We analyzed three pairs of Epstein-Barr virus-immortalized B-cell lines from individual CML patients and found that only the lines in which active p210bcr-abl was present contained detectable pp41. We also performed immunoblotting with anti-P-Tyr antibodies on the same CML cell lines and detected at least four other putative substrates of p210bcr-abl, which were undetected with use of the two-dimensional gel technique.
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Partanen J, Armstrong E, Mäkelä TP, Korhonen J, Sandberg M, Renkonen R, Knuutila S, Huebner K, Alitalo K. A novel endothelial cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase with extracellular epidermal growth factor homology domains. Mol Cell Biol 1992; 12:1698-707. [PMID: 1312667 PMCID: PMC369613 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.4.1698-1707.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Endothelial cell surfaces play key roles in several important physiological and pathological processes such as blood clotting, angiogenic responses, and inflammation. Here we describe the cloning and characterization of tie, a novel type of human endothelial cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase. The extracellular domain of the predicted tie protein product has an exceptional multidomain structure consisting of a cluster of three epidermal growth factor homology motifs embedded between two immunoglobulinlike loops, which are followed by three fibronectin type III repeats next to the transmembrane region. Additionally, a cDNA form lacking the first of the three epidermal growth factor homology domains was isolated, suggesting that alternative splicing creates different tie-type receptors. Cells transfected with tie cDNA expression vector produce glycosylated polypeptides of 117 kDa which are reactive to antisera raised against the tie carboxy terminus. The tie gene was located in chromosomal region 1p33 to 1p34. Expression of the tie gene appeared to be restricted in some cell lines; large amounts of tie mRNA were detected in endothelial cell lines and in some myeloid leukemia cell lines with erythroid and megakaryoblastoid characteristics. In addition, mRNA in situ studies further indicated the endothelial expression of the tie gene. The tie receptor tyrosine kinase may have evolved for multiple protein-protein interactions, possibly including cell adhesion to the vascular endothelium.
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- J Partanen
- Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Freed E, Hunter T. A 41-kilodalton protein is a potential substrate for the p210bcr-abl protein-tyrosine kinase in chronic myelogenous leukemia cells. Mol Cell Biol 1992; 12:1312-23. [PMID: 1545812 PMCID: PMC369564 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.3.1312-1323.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is characterized by a translocation involving the c-abl protein-tyrosine kinase gene. A chimeric mRNA is formed containing sequences from a chromosome 22 gene (bcr) at its 5' end and all but the variable exon 1 of c-abl sequence. The product of this mRNA, p210bcr-abl, has constitutively high protein-tyrosine kinase activity. We examined K562 cells and other lines established from CML patients for the presence of phosphotyrosine (P-Tyr)-containing proteins which might be p210bcr-abl substrates. Two-dimensional gel separation of 32P-labeled proteins followed by phosphoamino acid analysis of 25 phosphoproteins, which comprised the major alkali-stable phosphoproteins, indicated that three related proteins of 41 kDa are the most prominent P-Tyr-containing proteins detected by this method. The 41-kDa phosphoproteins are found in two other CML lines that we examined but not in lines of similar lineage isolated from patients with distinct leukemic disease. A protein that comigrates with the major form of pp41 (pp41A) and contains P-Tyr is also found in murine fibroblasts and B-lymphoid cells transformed by Abelson murine leukemia virus, which encodes the v-abl protein, and in platelet-derived growth factor-treated fibroblasts, in which it has been described previously. We analyzed three pairs of Epstein-Barr virus-immortalized B-cell lines from individual CML patients and found that only the lines in which active p210bcr-abl was present contained detectable pp41. We also performed immunoblotting with anti-P-Tyr antibodies on the same CML cell lines and detected at least four other putative substrates of p210bcr-abl, which were undetected with use of the two-dimensional gel technique.
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- E Freed
- Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, Salk Institute, San Diego, California 92186
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Katayama N, Nishikawa M, Shimizu N, Komada F, Sekine T, Minami N, Shirakawa S. A role for protein kinase C in the growth of human erythroid progenitor cells. Leuk Res 1992; 16:145-51. [PMID: 1545567 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(92)90125-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We searched for a possible role for protein kinase C in the growth of human erythroid progenitor cells, using pharmacologic approaches. Two protein kinase C inhibitors, 1-(5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H-7) and staurosporine, dose-dependently inhibited the growth of immature erythroid progenitor cells (BFU-E) induced by interleukin 3 (IL-3) plus erythropoietin (Ep) or granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) plus Ep whereas a weaker analog of H-7, N-(2-guanidinoethyl)-5-isoquinoline sulfonamide (HA-1004), had no effect on the number of BFU-E. These three compounds had no effect on the growth of mature erythroid progenitor cells (CFU-E) stimulated by Ep. The culture of accessory cell-depleted bone marrow demonstrated that the effects of these compounds on colony formation do not appear to be mediated by accessory cells. The potential of these compounds to inhibit the GM-CSF-dependent growth of KG-1 cells correlated well with the extent of their inhibitor of protein kinase C activities from KG-1 cells. Thus, the protein kinase C system is apparently involved in the growth of BFU-E, supported by IL-3 or GM-CSF. The growth signal for CFU-E transduced by Ep may be achieved through other systems.
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- N Katayama
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan
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Vogler WR, Olson AC, Okamoto S, Shoji M, Raynor RL, Kuo JF, Berdel WE, Eibl H, Hajdu J, Nomura H. Comparison of selective cytotoxicity of alkyl lysophospholipids. Lipids 1991; 26:1418-23. [PMID: 1819744 DOI: 10.1007/bf02536579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Alkyl lysophospholipids have been shown to be cytooxic to a number of neoplastic tissues. One, ET-18-OCH3, has been used to selectively purge leukemic cells from mixtures with normal marrow progenitor cells, in vitro and in vivo. We have measured the 50% inhibitory (IC50) effect of a series of ether lipids (EL) on leukemic cells (HL60, K562, Daudi, KG-1, KG-1a) and normal marrow progenitor cells. Cells were incubated with varying concentrations of EL for 4 hr and assayed for viability, [3H]thymidine incorporation and clonogenicity in semi-solid media. The effect on protein kinase C (PKC) activity was assayed for each compound. Compounds tested included three glycerophosphocholine analogs--ET-18-OCH3, ET-16-NHCOCH3, and BM 41.440. In addition, a lipoidal amine, CP 46665, an ethyleneglycolphospholipid, AEPL, and four single chain alkylphosphocholine analogs, HePC2, HePC3, HePC4 and HePC6 were also tested. During the period of incubation, the cells remained viable (greater than 70%) as judged by trypan blue dye exclusion. The glycerophosphocholines were the most active and showed the highest therapeutic index. The lipoidal amine was active, but toxic to normal marrow progenitor cells. The ethyleneglycolphospholipid was active against HL60, but not against the other cell lines. The single chain alkylphosphocholine analogs were less active. All of the compounds inhibited PKC activity; however, the glycerophosphocholines were the most inhibitory.
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- W R Vogler
- Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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Brizzi MF, Arduino C, Avanzi GC, Bussolino F, Pegoraro L. GM-CSF and phorbol esters modulate GM-CSF receptor expression by independent mechanisms. J Cell Physiol 1991; 148:24-34. [PMID: 1830593 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041480104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) (0.1 nM) down-modulates its receptor in IL-3/GM-CSF dependent M-07e cells, in KG-1 cells and normal granulocytes, whereas phorbol esters 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) (2 nM) down-modulates the GM-CSF receptor in M-07e cells and granulocytes but not in KG-1 cells. As data analysis shows by nonlinear regression, the decreased binding ability depends on a reduction of the binding sites with no significant change of their dissociation constant. To gain insight into the mechanisms involved in the GM-CSF receptor regulation, we investigated the role of protein kinase C (PKC). GM-CSF, unlike TPA, was unable to activate PKC in all the cells studied. Moreover, unlike TPA, GM-CSF was still able to down-modulate its receptor in cells where PKC was inhibited by 1-(5-isoquinolonesulphonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H7) and staurosporine or in cells where PKC was exhausted by prolonged incubation with 1 microM TPA. Finally, the receptor re-expression rate was accelerated by protein kinases inhibitors. These results, taken together, indicate the presence of a PKC-dependent and -independent down-modulation mechanism and a negative role of the endogeneous protein kinases in GM-CSF receptor re-expression.
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- M F Brizzi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Oncologia Umana, Universitá di Torino, Italy
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Amatruda TT, Steele DA, Slepak VZ, Simon MI. G alpha 16, a G protein alpha subunit specifically expressed in hematopoietic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:5587-91. [PMID: 1905813 PMCID: PMC51922 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.13.5587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Signal-transduction pathways mediated by guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins) determine many of the responses of hematopoietic cells. A recently identified gene encoding a G protein alpha subunit, G alpha 16, is specifically expressed in human cells of the hematopoietic lineage. The G alpha 16 cDNA encodes a protein with predicted Mr of 43,500, which resembles the G q class of alpha subunits and does not include a pertussis toxin ADP-ribosylation site. In comparison with other G protein alpha subunits, the G alpha 16 predicted protein has distinctive amino acid sequences in the amino terminus, the region A guanine nucleotide-binding domain, and in the carboxyl-terminal third of the protein. Cell lines of myelomonocytic and T-cell phenotype express the G alpha 16 gene, but no expression is detectable in two B-cell lines or in nonhematopoietic cell lines. G alpha 16 gene expression is down-regulated in HL-60 cells induced to differentiate to neutrophils with dimethyl sulfoxide. Antisera generated from synthetic peptides that correspond to two regions of G alpha 16 specifically react with a protein of 42- to 43-kDa in bacterial strains that overexpress G alpha 16 and in HL-60 membranes. This protein is decreased in membranes from dimethyl sulfoxide-differentiated HL-60 cells and is not detectable in COS cell membranes. The restricted expression of this gene suggests that G alpha 16 regulates cell-type-specific signal-transduction pathways, which are not inhibited by pertussis toxin.
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- T T Amatruda
- Division of Biology 147-75, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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Adolf GR, Kalsner I, Ahorn H, Maurer-Fogy I, Cantell K. Natural human interferon-alpha 2 is O-glycosylated. Biochem J 1991; 276 ( Pt 2):511-8. [PMID: 2049076 PMCID: PMC1151121 DOI: 10.1042/bj2760511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Natural human interferon alpha 2 (IFN-alpha 2) was isolated from a preparation of partially purified human leucocyte IFN by monoclonal-antibody immunoaffinity chromatography. The purified protein had a specific activity of 1.5 x 10(8) i.u./mg; it was estimated to constitute 10-20% of the total antiviral activity of leucocyte IFN. N-Terminal amino-acid-sequence analysis identified the subspecies IFN-alpha 2b and/or IFN-alpha 2c, whereas IFN-alpha 2a was not detectable. The structure of natural IFN-alpha 2 was found to differ from that of its recombinant (Escherichia coli-derived) equivalent. First, reverse-phase h.p.l.c. showed that natural IFN-alpha 2 was significantly more hydrophilic then expected. Secondly, the apparent molecular mass of the natural protein determined by SDS/PAGE was higher than that of recombinant IFN-alpha 2; incubation under mild alkaline conditions known to eliminate O-linked carbohydrates resulted in a reduction of the apparent molecular mass to that of the recombinant protein. On sequence analysis of proteolytic peptides, Thr-106 was found to be modified. These results suggested that Thr-106 of natural IFN-alpha 2 carries O-linked carbohydrates. Reverse-phase h.p.l.c. as well as SDS/PAGE of natural IFN-alpha 2 showed that glycosylation is heterogeneous. For characterization of the carbohydrate moieties, the protein was treated with neuraminidase and/or O-glycanase and analysed by gel electrophoresis; in addition, glycopeptides obtained by proteinase digestion and separated by h.p.l.c. were characterized by sequence analysis and m.s. Further information on the composition of the glycans was obtained by monosaccharide analysis. The results indicate that natural IFN-alpha 2 contains the disaccharide galactosyl-N-acetylgalactosamine (Gal-GalNAc) linked to Thr-106. In part of the molecules, this core carbohydrate carries (alpha-)N-acetylneuraminic acid, whereas a disaccharide, probably N-acetyl-lactosamine, is bound to Gal-GalNAc in another proportion of the protein. Further glycosylation isomers are present in small amounts. As IFN-alpha 2 is the only IFN-alpha species with a threonine residue at position 106, it may represent the only O-glycosylated human IFN-alpha protein.
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- G R Adolf
- Ernst-Boehringer-Institut für Arzneimittelforschung, Bender + Co Ges mbH, Vienna, Austria
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Grant S, Bhalla K, McCrady C. Effect of tetrahydrouridine and deoxytetrahydrouridine on the interaction between 2'-deoxycytidine and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine in human leukemia cells. Leuk Res 1991; 15:205-13. [PMID: 2030601 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(91)90122-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The interaction between 2'-deoxycytidine (dCyd) and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (ara-C), administered at pharmacologically achievable concentrations, was examined in four continuously cultured human leukemia cell lines, HL-60, KG-1, K-562, and CCRF-CEM. In three of the cell lines (HL-60, K-562, and CCRF-CEM), co-administration of 20 or 50 microM dCyd with 10 microM ara-C reduced ara-CTP formation by at least 90% and incorporation of ara-C into DNA by at least 80%. In contrast, KG-1 cells exhibited substantially smaller reductions in both ara-CTP formation and incorporation of ara-C into DNA under identical conditions. KG-1 cells were distinguished by the highest activity of the enzyme cytidine deaminase of the four lines assayed, and exhibited the smallest increments in the intracellular accumulation of both dCyd and deoxycytidine triphosphate (dCTP) in response to exogenous dCyd. Co-administration of 1 mM tetrahydrouridine (THU) or 0.5 mM deoxy-tetrahydrouridine (dTHU) had little effect on the ability of dCyd to antagonize ara-C metabolism in HL-60, KG-1 and K-562 cells. In contrast, these deaminase inhibitors substantially increased the intracellular accumulation of dCTP as well as the ability of dCyd to antagonize ara-CTP formation and incorporation of ara-C into DNA in KG-1 cells. THU and dTHU also permitted dCyd to antagonize ara-C growth inhibitory effects in KG-1 cells to the extent observed in the other leukemic cell lines. These studies suggest that the intracellular deamination of exogenous deoxycytidine may influence the degree to which this nucleoside antagonizes ara-C metabolism and toxicity in some leukemic cells. They also raise the possibility that deaminase inhibitors may be employed to modulate, and perhaps to improve, the therapeutic selectivity of pharmacologically relevant concentrations of ara-C and dCyd in the treatment of acute leukemia in man.
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- S Grant
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond 23298
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Reed CB, Tang W, Ziboh VA. Antineoplastic ether-linked phospholipid induces differentiation of acute myelogenous leukemic KG-1 cells into macrophage-like cells. Life Sci 1991; 49:1221-7. [PMID: 1943437 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(91)90134-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The culture of a human acute myelogenous leukemic cell line (KG-1) with a synthetic ether-linked phospholipid: 1-0-octadecyl-2-0-methylglycerol phosphocholine (ET-18-OCH3), suppressed the growth of the KG-1 cells while the variant subline, (KG-1a cells) similarly treated was unresponsive. The growth inhibition of the KG-1 cells was accompanied by morphological changes into cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage. Histochemically, the ET-18-OCH3-treated KG-1 cells increase 17-fold in the nonspecific esterase activity when compared to control non-treated cells, whereas they responded negatively in the assay for the reduction of soluble nitroblue tetrazolium into insoluble blue formazan deposits (a marker for cells of the granulocytic lineage). Taken together, our data revealed that the synthetic ether-lipid inhibited the growth of the KG-1 acute myelogenous leukemic cells while inducing the differentiation of these cells into cells of the monocyte/macrophage-lineage. These effects of the synthetic ether lipid raise the possibility that naturally occurring ether-linked phospholipids may likewise function in vivo to modulate hyperproliferative processes and thus warrant further explorations.
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- C B Reed
- Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
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Prchal JT, Papayannopoulou T, Yoon SH. Patterns of spectrin transcripts in erythroid and non-erythroid cells. J Cell Physiol 1990; 144:287-94. [PMID: 1696273 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041440215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Spectrin is the major protein of the membrane erythrocyte skeleton. More recently, homologous but non-identical spectrins (fodrins) were also found in various non-erythroid tissues. Spectrin mRNA in erythroid and various non-erythroid cells was examined by direct hybridization with human alpha-spectrin, beta-spectrin (erythroid spectrins), and alpha-fodrin (non-erythroid spectrin) cDNA probes. Northern blot analysis of poly (A)+ RNA revealed a distinct pattern of expression in erythroid vs. non-erythroid cells. Erythroid cells from early erythroblasts to reticulocyte stage expressed two mRNA species of beta-spectrin, whereas they expressed only a single species of alpha-spectrin, and no alpha-fodrin mRNA. In contrast, non-erythroid cells (platelets, myeloid cells, liver, muscle, heart, cerebellum, and eye lens) expressed either no alpha-spectrin mRNA or a different molecular weight transcript(s) of this gene, and a single species of alpha-fodrin mRNA. Additionally, they also expressed from none to multiple species of beta-spectrin, and these were of different molecular size(s) from that found in erythroid cells (with the exception of platelets). Transcripts of non-erythroid spectrin, alpha-fodrin, were found as a single copy only in non-erythroid tissues. Human and murine erythroleukemia cells expressed both erythroid spectrin transcripts in addition to alpha-fodrin and raise the possibility that erythroid progenitors may have the potential to express both erythroid and non-erythroid species. These data indicated that several mRNA species of beta-spectrin could be detected in both erythroid and some non-erythroid cells. Whether multiple spectrin peptides could also be found with functional heterogeneity is unclear. However, in each case, the pattern combination observed appeared to be tissue-specific.
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- J T Prchal
- Division of Hematology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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Engelhardt W, Geerds C, Frey J. Distribution, inducibility and biological function of the cloned and expressed human beta Fc receptor II. Eur J Immunol 1990; 20:1367-77. [PMID: 2142460 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830200624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A cDNA encoding the human beta Fc gamma receptor II (FcRII) was isolated from a placental cDNA library. Analysis of the predicted amino acid sequence indicates that this receptor is synthesized with a 42-amino acid leader sequence. The mature protein consists of 249 amino acids. The leader sequence and the cytoplasmic domain are strikingly different from the CDw32 antigen but show great homology to the mouse beta 2FcR. RNA blot analysis of human cells using CDw32 and beta FcRII-specific DNA fragments demonstrated one beta FcRII transcript (1.7 kb) in B cells and in HL-60 cells which were induced to differentiate along a monocyte-macrophage pathway by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate treatment. Under these conditions the CDw32 transcripts (2.5 and 1.7 kb) are induced to a minor extent in HL-60 cells. In contrast, the 2.5-kb CDw32 transcript is strongly induced in HL-60 cells which have been induced to differentiate into granulocytes by exposure to dimethylsulfoxide. To determine the biological properties of the beta FcRII, we expressed the antigen in FcR- hamster cells. Only immune complexes but not monomeric human IgG were bound significantly. Bound ligand was efficiently internalized within 15 min and it was then found in vesicular structures. Thus the low-affinity beta FcRII is able to internalize ligands without cooperation with any other FcR.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigen-Antibody Complex/metabolism
- Antigens, CD/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Differentiation/genetics
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line
- Cloning, Molecular
- Endocytosis/immunology
- Gene Expression Regulation/immunology
- Genomic Library
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Monocytes/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Receptors, Fc/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Fc/genetics
- Receptors, IgG
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Transfection
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- W Engelhardt
- Fakultät für Chemie-Biochemie, Universität Bielefeld, FRG
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Järvinen M, Andersson LC, Virtanen I. K562 erythroleukemia cells express cytokeratins 8, 18, and 19 and epithelial membrane antigen that disappear after induced differentiation. J Cell Physiol 1990; 143:310-20. [PMID: 1692028 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041430215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The effects of differentiation-modulating drugs were studied on the expression of intermediate filaments (IFs) in the human K562 erythroleukemic cell line. The untreated cells contained typical cytoplasmic coiling bundles, positive for both vimentin and cytokeratin as judged by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy with monoclonal antibodies (Mabs). Some of the cells also showed bright immunoreactivity for epithelial membrane antigen (EMA), as revealed with a Mab and polyclonal antiserum. When exposed to hemin or to sodium butyrate, most of the cells became cytokeratin negative within 3 days and showed dispersion of vimentin fibrils. Upon exposure to the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), the amount of both vimentin and cytokeratin appeared to be greatly increased within 3 days and was found both in dispersed cytoplasmic fibrils, in large spherical, eccentric aggregates, as well as in cytoplasmic fibrils in cells spreading on fibronectin. TPA induced a complete loss of proliferation, as judged by immunostaining with the Mab Ki-67. The effects of TPA were found to be irreversible and could be induced by only a short exposure to the drug. Western blotting analysis and monoclonal antibodies to individual cytokeratins revealed that untreated K562 cells expressed Mr 52,000 (No. 8), 46,000 (No. 18), and 40,000 (No. 19) cytokeratin polypeptides, which disappeared when the cells were exposed to hemin or to sodium butyrate to induce erythroid differentiation but were greatly enhanced when exposed to TPA. The monoclonal anti EMA antibody reacted in K562 cells with a single Mr 320,000 polypeptide that was also revealed in MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells. Human bone marrow cells or other leukemic cell lines with erythroid differentiation capacity (HEL and KG-1) did not contain cytokeratin- or EMA-immunoreactive cells, suggesting that in K562 cells these properties may rather represent abnormal cytodifferentiation or retrodifferentiation toward early embryonic mesenchymal cells, than a more general expression of epithelial features in human leukemic cells.
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- M Järvinen
- Department of Anatomy, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Furukawa Y, DeCaprio JA, Freedman A, Kanakura Y, Nakamura M, Ernst TJ, Livingston DM, Griffin JD. Expression and state of phosphorylation of the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product in cycling and noncycling human hematopoietic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:2770-4. [PMID: 2320588 PMCID: PMC53772 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.7.2770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The product of the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene RB1 (Rb) is likely to function as an inhibitor of cell growth. Previous studies have suggested that certain growth-suppressing effects of Rb are exerted in G0/G1 phase and that phosphorylation can inactivate these functions. We tested this hypothesis by examining the expression and state of phosphorylation of Rb in several lineages of primary hematopoietic cells that spontaneously arrest in G0 phase. Resting lymphocytes were found to express only unphosphorylated Rb, but phosphorylation of Rb occurred as the cells entered S phase in response to mitogens. In contrast, although monocytes and granulocytes also expressed high levels of unphosphorylated Rb, these terminally differentiated cells did not phosphorylate Rb, nor could they exit from G1 phase in response to growth factors. Thus, Rb phosphorylation appears linked to the ability of a cell to synthesize DNA. In T and B lymphocytes, Rb protein increased 8-fold after stimulation, while RB1 RNA levels increased 2- to 4-fold. Nuclear run-on assays and measurement of RB1 RNA half-life in T cells suggested that the increased RNA abundance was, at least in part, due to increased RNA stability. By contrast, Rb protein levels did not increase in either monocytes or granulocytes after stimulation, although RB1 RNA levels did increase in monocytes. Thus, there are lineage-specific differences in both the regulation of Rb phosphorylation and RB1 gene expression in lymphoid and myeloid cells.
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- Y Furukawa
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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Landberg G, Tan EM, Roos G. Flow cytometric multiparameter analysis of proliferating cell nuclear antigen/cyclin and Ki-67 antigen: a new view of the cell cycle. Exp Cell Res 1990; 187:111-8. [PMID: 1967582 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(90)90124-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Flow cytometric multiparameter analysis of two proliferation-associated nuclear antigens (proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)/cyclin and Ki-67) was performed on seven human hematopoietic cell lines. PCNA/cyclin, an S phase-related antigen, was detected using an autoantibody and a fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled anti-human antibody. The Ki-67 antigen, which in cycling cells is expressed with increasing levels during the S phase with a maximum in the M phase, was detected using a monoclonal antibody and a phycoerythrin-conjugated anti-mouse antibody. In some experiments the PCNA/Ki-67 staining was combined with a DNA stain, 7-amino actinomycin D, and simultaneous detection of the three stains was performed by a single laser flow cytometer. Using this technique four distinct cell populations, representing G1, S, G2, and M, respectively, could be demonstrated in cycling cells on the basis of their PCNA/cyclin and Ki-67 levels. The cell cycle phase specificity could be verified using metaphase (vinblastine, colcemide) and G2 phase (mitoxantrone) blocking agents, as well as by stainings with a mitosis-specific antibody (MPM-2). Also, G0 cells could be discriminated from G1 cells in analysis of a mixture of resting peripheral mononuclear blood cells and a proliferating cell line. This technique can be valuable in detailed cell cycle analysis, since all cell cycle phases can be visualized and calculated using a simple double staining procedure.
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- G Landberg
- W.M. Keck Autoimmune Disease Center, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California
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Kurane I, Kontny U, Janus J, Ennis FA. Dengue-2 virus infection of human mononuclear cell lines and establishment of persistent infections. Arch Virol 1990; 110:91-101. [PMID: 2178591 DOI: 10.1007/bf01310705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Twenty three human mononuclear cell lines including ten myelomonocytic cell lines, eight B cell lines and five T cell lines, were examined to determine whether they could be infected with dengue-2 virus. All the cell lines were infected with dengue-2 virus as determined by immunofluorescent staining and by virus titration of culture supernatant fluids. K562, Jiyoye and Jurkat, respectively, showed the highest percentage of infected cells of these myelomonocytic, B and T cell lines. Antibody to dengue-2 virus at subneutralizing concentrations augmented dengue-2 virus infection of myelomonocytic cell lines, but not of B cell lines or of T cell lines. Persistent dengue-2 virus infection was established using a myelomonocytic cell line (K562), a B cell line (Raji), and a T cell line (HSB-2). These cell lines maintained a high percentage (more than 70%) of dengue-2 virus antigen-positive cells for at least 25 weeks. Very low titers of infectious dengue-2 virus were detected in the culture supernatant fluids of the persistently infected cells. Dengue-2 virus antigen-positive Raji cell clones were established from persistently-infected Raji cells using limiting dilutions and all of the cells in these clones were dengue-2 virus antigen-positive. These findings demonstrate that a variety of human mononuclear cell lines can be infected with dengue-2 virus and may be useful as models for the analysis of dengue virus-human cell interactions in dengue virus infections.
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- I Kurane
- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester
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Bunce CM, Patton WN, Pound JD, Lord JM, Brown G. Phorbol myristate acetate treatment of normal human myeloid blast cells promotes monopoiesis and inhibits granulopoiesis. Leuk Res 1990; 14:1007-17. [PMID: 2280600 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(90)90114-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Fractionation of mononuclear cells from human fetal liver provides a cell population at early stages of myeloid differentiation which, when cultured, generates neutrophils and macrophages for up to a month. These studies describe the further purification of an undifferentiated myeloid blast cell population by rosette sedimentation of unwanted cells, after coating these cells with monoclonal antibodies which identify macrophages and erythroblasts. In culture, the purified blast cells generated only neutrophils and macrophages. When treated with 10 nM PMA, 62% of the purified cells were induced to differentiate towards macrophages within 48 h. PMA-induced cells acquired morphological features of macrophages and synthesized alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase. The differentiation of the remaining blast cells towards neutrophils, seen in untreated cultures, was completely inhibited by PMA, as revealed by the absence of increases in the numbers of cells expressing lactoferrin and an antigen which appears at the promyelocyte stage of differentiation. Thus, PMA effects intracellular changes which both promote monopoiesis and inhibit granulopoiesis, suggesting a reciprocal interaction between intracellular processes which regulate the capacity for the two pathways of maturation. The purified blast cell population provides a good model system for studies of molecular events which regulate the expression of macrophage characteristics.
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- C M Bunce
- Department of Immunology, Medical School, University of Birmingham, U.K
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Anfossi G, Gewirtz AM, Calabretta B. An oligomer complementary to c-myb-encoded mRNA inhibits proliferation of human myeloid leukemia cell lines. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:3379-83. [PMID: 2541445 PMCID: PMC287136 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.9.3379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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To study the role of the protooncogene c-myb in regulating myeloid leukemia cell proliferation and differentiation, we exposed cells of the human leukemia lines HL-60, ML-3, KG-1, and KG-1a to an oligodeoxynucleotide complementary to an 18-base-pair (bp) sequence of c-myb-encoded mRNA. This treatment resulted in a significant decrease in cell proliferation in all of the lines, which was most marked in HL-60 cells. After 5 days in culture, in several separate experiments with different oligomer preparations, 75% growth inhibition was observed in c-myb antisense treated cells in comparison to untreated HL-60 cells. Two c-myb antisense oligomers of identical length with either 2- or 4-bp mismatches had no effect on cell growth nor did an 18-bp c-myb sense or myeloperoxidase antisense oligomer. The effect of a c-myc antisense oligomer (18 bp) on the growth of HL-60, KG-1, and KG-1a cells was also studied. This oligomer had much less inhibitory effect on cell proliferation than did the c-myb antisense sequence. Interestingly, although c-myc antisense treatment induced maturation of HL-60 cells while it inhibited cell proliferation, such an effect was not noted in c-myb antisense treated cells. These studies indicate that the nuclear protein encoded by the c-myb protooncogene is required for maintenance of proliferation in certain leukemia cell lines. In compared to c-myc protein suggest that, at least in HL-60 cells, c-myc amplification or N-ras activation may not be sufficient to maintain the leukemic growth in the absence of c-myb protein. These findings support the hypothesis that development and maintenance of a malignant phenotype requires a multiplicity of interrelated genetic events.
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- G Anfossi
- Department of Pathology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140
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Holmes J, Jacobs A, Carter G, Janowska-Wieczorek A, Padua RA. Multidrug resistance in haemopoietic cell lines, myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloblastic leukaemia. Br J Haematol 1989; 72:40-4. [PMID: 2736241 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1989.tb07649.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Resistance to cytotoxic agents is a common clinical problem encountered in the treatment of human myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML). Cellular acquisition of the multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype confers loss of sensitivity to a wide range of structurally dissimilar anti-neoplastic agents. This state can arise through increased expression of the mdrl (P-glycoprotein) gene. We have used the mdrl gene probe to investigate adriamycin resistant (HL60/AR) and vinblastine resistant (CEM/VLB100) human leukaemic cell lines. In addition, peripheral blood or bone marrow cells from 66 patients with MDS and AML have been screened for gene amplification and 40 cases for increased mRNA expression. P-glycoprotein gene amplification was observed only in the (CEM/VLB100) and not in the HL60/AR on any other leukaemic cell line. Gene amplification was not found in any patient's cells. Eighteen out of 40 patients showed an increase (2----20) of mdrl mRNA expression. These results are not only of significance in understanding the biology of human drug resistance but have practical importance in the design of anti-leukaemic therapy.
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- J Holmes
- Department of Haematology, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, Canada
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Chiba P, Tihan T, Eher R, Köller U, Wallner C, Göbl R, Linkesch W. Effect of cell growth and cell differentiation on 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine metabolism in myeloid cells. Br J Haematol 1989; 71:451-5. [PMID: 2713269 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1989.tb06301.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Resistance of leukaemic blasts to 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (ara-C) has been shown to be associated with changes in the metabolism of this drug. However, effects of cell growth and maturation stage on ara-C metabolizing enzymes have to be excluded as a possible cause of different enzyme activities in leukaemic blasts between nonresponders and patients achieving complete remission. We evaluated the effects of cell cycle phase and cell differentiation on the activity of cytidine deaminase, deoxycytidylate deaminase and deoxycytidine kinase in myeloid cell lines. Our data indicate that different enzyme profiles in nonresponders might not only be caused by the emergence of mutator phenotypes but may also reflect the growth and maturation stage of leukaemic blasts.
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- P Chiba
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
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Park LS, Friend D, Price V, Anderson D, Singer J, Prickett KS, Urdal DL. Heterogeneity in Human Interleukin-3 Receptors. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)83562-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Evolution, expression, and chromosomal location of a novel receptor tyrosine kinase gene, eph. Mol Cell Biol 1989. [PMID: 3221865 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.9.3770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Partial sequence analysis of the genomic eph locus revealed that the splicing points of kinase domain-encoding exons were completely distinct from those of the other protein tyrosine kinase members reported, suggesting that this is the earliest evolutionary split within this family. In Northern (RNA) blot analysis, the eph gene was expressed in liver, lung, kidney, and testis of rat, and screening of 25 human cancers of various cell types showed preferential expression in cells of epithelial origin. Overexpression of eph mRNA was found in a hepatoma and a lung cancer without gene amplification. Comparison of cDNA sequences derived from a normal liver and a hepatoma that overproduces eph mRNA demonstrated that two of them were completely identical throughout the transmembrane to the carboxy-terminal portions. Southern blot analysis of DNAs from human-mouse hybrid clones with an eph probe showed that this gene was present on human chromosome 7.
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Effects of inducers of differentiation on protein kinase C and CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid:lactosylceramide sialyltransferase activities of HL-60 leukemia cells. J Lipid Res 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2275(20)38379-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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van der Feltz MJ, Shivji MK, Allen PB, Heisterkamp N, Groffen J, Wiedemann LM. Nucleotide sequence of both reciprocal translocation junction regions in a patient with Ph positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, with a breakpoint within the first intron of the BCR gene. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:1-10. [PMID: 2911461 PMCID: PMC331530 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Breakpoints on chromosome 22 in the translocation t(9;22) found in Philadelphia positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia patients fall within two categories. In the first the breakpoint is localized within the breakpoint cluster region of the BCR gene, analogous to the chromosome 22 breakpoint in chronic myeloid leukaemia. The second category has a breakpoint 5' of this area, but still within the BCR gene. We have previously shown that these breakpoints occur within the first intron of the BCR gene and cloned the 9q+ junction from such a patient. We have now determined the sequences around the breakpoints on both translocation partners from this patient as well as the germline regions. The chromosome 9 ABL sequence around the breakpoint shows homology to the consensus Alu sequence whereas the chromosome 22 BCR sequence does not. At the junction there is a 6 bp duplication of the chromosome 22 sequence which is present both in the 9q+ and in the 22q- translocation products. Possible mechanisms for the generation of the translocation are discussed.
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- M J van der Feltz
- Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, UK
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Byrne PV. Human myeloid cells possessing high-affinity receptors for granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor. Leuk Res 1989; 13:117-26. [PMID: 2538682 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(89)90135-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a glycoprotein which controls growth and differentiation of hemopoietic cells to form mature granulocytes and macrophages. The presence of specific high-affinity receptors for this factor on myeloid cell lines was investigated using radiolabelled recombinant human GM-CSF. Eight cell lines representing different stages of myeloid differentiation were examined. Equilibrium binding at 37 degrees C using different concentrations of 125I-GM-CSF and Scatchard Plot analysis was used to determine the equilibrium dissociation constant and the average number of receptors per cell. Low receptor numbers were found with an average of 74 on HL-60 cells and decreasing numbers on U-937, KG-1, X-376 and THP-1. Receptors were not detectable on RC-2A, CTV-2 and HEL cells. Other cell lines were also investigated including a Burkitt type ALL cell line, X-308 and a Hodgkin's tumor cell line, L 428 KSA. No receptors were detectable on these lines. Normal blood mononuclear cells were examined and indicated that more mature cells have a higher receptor density. Receptors were detectable on normal bone marrow cells but the nature and receptor density of the binding cells remains to be elucidated.
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- P V Byrne
- Dept. of Transfusion Medicine, University of Ulm, Federal Republic of Germany
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Collins SJ. Different mechanisms account for the relative resistance of KG-1 and HL-60 cell lines to retrovirus infection. J Virol 1988; 62:4346-8. [PMID: 3172344 PMCID: PMC253870 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.11.4346-4348.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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I infected three different human leukemic cell lines (K562, KG-1, and HL-60) with an amphotropic retrovirus vector (designated PA317/N2) which confers G418 resistance and contains the Moloney murine leukemia virus long terminal repeat. Compared with K562 cells, both KG-1 and HL-60 cells were relatively resistant to infection with this retrovirus vector. In HL-60 cells, this resistance appeared to result from diminished viral DNA synthesis, while in KG-1 cells there was a block to the genomic integration of the viral DNA.
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- S J Collins
- Molecular Medicine Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98104
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Collins SJ. Retinoic acid-induced differentiation of retrovirus-infected HL-60 cells is associated with enhanced transcription from the viral long terminal repeat. J Virol 1988; 62:4349-52. [PMID: 3172345 PMCID: PMC253871 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.11.4349-4352.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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I infected different human leukemic cell lines with an amphotropic retrovirus vector (designated PA317/N2) which confers G418 resistance and contains the Moloney murine leukemia virus long terminal repeat. In retrovirus-infected G418-resistant HL-60 cells, induction of granulocyte differentiation by retinoic acid was invariably accompanied by a marked increase (5- to 10-fold) in the transcriptional activity of the integrated retroviral long terminal repeat.
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- S J Collins
- Molecular Medicine Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98104
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Daher KA, Lehrer RI, Ganz T, Kronenberg M. Isolation and characterization of human defensin cDNA clones. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:7327-31. [PMID: 3174637 PMCID: PMC282179 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.19.7327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Four clones that encode defensins, a group of microbicidal and cytotoxic peptides made by neutrophils, were isolated from an HL-60 human promyelocytic leukemia cDNA library. Analysis of these clones indicated that the defensins are made as precursor proteins, which must be cleaved to yield the mature peptides. Defensin mRNA was detected in normal bone marrow cells, but not in normal peripheral blood leukocytes. Defensin transcripts were also found in the peripheral leukocytes of some leukemia patients and in some lung and intestine tissues. Defensin mRNA content was augmented by treatment of HL-60 cells with dimethyl sulfoxide. These results define important aspects of the mechanism of synthesis and the tissue-specific expression of a major group of neutrophil granule proteins.
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- K A Daher
- University of California, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Los Angeles 90024
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Identification of the differentiation-associated p93 tyrosine protein kinase of HL-60 leukemia cells as the product of the human c-fes locus and its expression in myelomonocytic cells. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68144-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Maru Y, Hirai H, Yoshida MC, Takaku F. Evolution, expression, and chromosomal location of a novel receptor tyrosine kinase gene, eph. Mol Cell Biol 1988; 8:3770-6. [PMID: 3221865 PMCID: PMC365435 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.9.3770-3776.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Partial sequence analysis of the genomic eph locus revealed that the splicing points of kinase domain-encoding exons were completely distinct from those of the other protein tyrosine kinase members reported, suggesting that this is the earliest evolutionary split within this family. In Northern (RNA) blot analysis, the eph gene was expressed in liver, lung, kidney, and testis of rat, and screening of 25 human cancers of various cell types showed preferential expression in cells of epithelial origin. Overexpression of eph mRNA was found in a hepatoma and a lung cancer without gene amplification. Comparison of cDNA sequences derived from a normal liver and a hepatoma that overproduces eph mRNA demonstrated that two of them were completely identical throughout the transmembrane to the carboxy-terminal portions. Southern blot analysis of DNAs from human-mouse hybrid clones with an eph probe showed that this gene was present on human chromosome 7.
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- Y Maru
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Broudy VC, Lin N, Egrie J, de Haën C, Weiss T, Papayannopoulou T, Adamson JW. Identification of the receptor for erythropoietin on human and murine erythroleukemia cells and modulation by phorbol ester and dimethyl sulfoxide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:6513-7. [PMID: 2842774 PMCID: PMC282003 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.17.6513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Erythropoietin, a glycoprotein that regulates erythropoiesis, initiates its biological effects by binding to a cell-surface receptor. Little is known about the structure of the erythropoietin receptor and the events that follow binding of erythropoietin to its receptor, in part because of the difficulty of obtaining sufficient quantities of cells that express the erythropoietin receptor. We used both iodinated and metabolically labeled erythropoietin to characterize the receptor on a variety of erythroleukemia cell lines not previously tested, and we have identified both human and murine cell lines that display large numbers of erythropoietin receptors. Both erythropoietin-responsive and -nonresponsive cell lines exhibit a single class of binding sites. The human erythroleukemia cell line OCIM1 exhibits approximately 3000 erythropoietin receptors per cell with a Kd of 280 pM. The erythropoietin-responsive Rauscher red 5-1.5 murine erythroleukemia cell line displays approximately 1700 receptors per cell with a Kd of 440 pM. The GM979 murine erythroleukemia cell line has approximately 1600 receptors per cell with a Kd of 660 pM. Induction of the erythroid phenotype by dimethyl sulfoxide or its suppression by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate was accompanied by an increase or decrease, respectively, in erythropoietin receptor number. Affinity crosslinking of labeled erythropoietin to the receptor identified two proteins corresponding to estimated molecular masses of 95 and 105 kDa. The OCIM1, Rauscher, and GM979 erythroleukemia cell lines provide a useful model for the study of postreceptor signaling events, as well as a convenient source for purification of the erythropoietin receptor.
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- V C Broudy
- Division of Hematology and Metabolism, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Nakamura T, Hemmi H. Retinoic acid regulates IgG Fc receptor expression in human myelomonocytic leukemia cells and normal peripheral monocytes. Eur J Haematol 1988; 41:258-66. [PMID: 2972558 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1988.tb01190.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The regulation of IgG Fc receptor (Fc gamma R) expression by retinoic acid (RA) in human myelomonocytic cells at different stages of maturation was studied. RA suppressed IgG-coated erythrocyte (EA) rosette formation of myelomonocytic cells blocked at relatively late stages of differentiation such as ML-1, U-937, THP-1-T, normal monocytes, and fresh cells of patients with acute myelomonocytic leukemia. However, RA increased the percentage of EA rosetting promyelocytes of HL-60 and of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia and a part of myeloblasts isolated from acute myelogenous leukemia patients. Other myeloblasts including KG-1a, KG-1, and fresh cells from patients with acute myelogenous leukemia were not affected. A kinetic study using HL-60 and THP-1-T demonstrated that an increase required at least a 48-h exposure and that the maximum decrease required approximately 6 h. The RA effect on both cell lines was dose-dependent. The number of Fc gamma R of HL-60 and THP-1-T treated with RA became very close, although untreated THP-1 had almost 10 times as many as HL-60. Kd for IgG in both THP-1-T and HL-60, either untreated or treated with RA, remained unchanged. These observations indicate that one of the important roles of RA is regulation of Fc gamma R expression in myeloid cells.
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- T Nakamura
- Department of Bacteriology, Tohoku University, School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Gesner TG, Mufson RA, Norton CR, Turner KJ, Yang YC, Clark SC. Specific binding, internalization, and degradation of human recombinant interleukin-3 by cells of the acute myelogenous, leukemia line, KG-1. J Cell Physiol 1988; 136:493-9. [PMID: 3049627 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041360314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We have studied the interaction of 35S-labeled recombinant IL-3 with the acute myelogenous leukemia cell line, KG-1. 35S-IL-3 bound to these cells in a time dependent, saturable, and specific manner at 4 degrees C. Scatchard transformation of binding isotherms demonstrated the existence of a small number (200) of binding sites, with an apparent dissociation constant of 70-105 pM. After a temperature shift from 4 degrees C to 37 degrees C, surface-bound 35S-IL-3 was rapidly internalized and processed into a trichloroacetic acid soluble form that was released into the medium. Experiments to address the specificity of the IL-3 binding site revealed that neither human IL-2, M-CSF, erythropoietin, transferrin, bovine insulin, nor murine nerve growth factor compete with IL-3 for binding to KG-1 cells. Both human and gibbon recombinant IL-3 and, surprisingly, human recombinant GM-CSF effectively competed the binding of the labeled IL-3 to these cells at 4 degrees C. The competition by GM-CSF was found to be concentration dependent, but much higher concentrations were required to achieve the levels obtained with IL-3. These results suggest that GM-CSF may also interact with the high-affinity IL-3 binding site on KG-1 cells or, alternatively, that GM-CSF binding to its own receptor may decrease the affinity of the IL-3 receptor for its ligand.
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- T G Gesner
- Genetics Institute, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
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- E L Schwartz
- Department of Oncology, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467
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Generation of biologically active interleukin-1 beta by proteolytic cleavage of the inactive precursor. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)76559-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The human c-fps/fes gene product expressed ectopically in rat fibroblasts is nontransforming and has restrained protein-tyrosine kinase activity. Mol Cell Biol 1988. [PMID: 3352601 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.2.578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A 13-kilobase EcoRI genomic restriction fragment containing the human c-fps/fes proto-oncogene locus was expressed transiently in Cos-1 monkey cells and stably in Rat-2 fibroblasts. In both cases, human c-fps/fes directed synthesis of a 92-kilodalton protein-tyrosine kinase (p92c-fes) indistinguishable from a tyrosine kinase previously identified with anti-fps antiserum which is specifically expressed in human myeloid cells. Transfected Rat-2 cells containing approximately 50-fold more human p92c-fes than is found in human leukemic cells remained morphologically normal and failed to grow in soft agar. Synthesis of p92c-fes in this phenotypically normal line exceeded that of the P130gag-fps oncoprotein in a v-fps-transformed Rat-2 line. Despite this elevated expression, human p92c-fes induced no substantial increase in cellular phosphotyrosine and was not itself phosphorylated on tyrosine. In contrast, p92c-fes immunoprecipitated from these Rat-2 cells or expressed as an enzymatically active fragment in Escherichia coli from a c-fps/fes cDNA catalyzed tyrosine phosphorylation with an activity similar to that of v-fps/fes polypeptides. Thus, p92c-fes is not transforming when ectopically overexpressed in Rat-2 fibroblasts. This lack of transforming activity correlates with a restriction imposed on the kinase activity of the normal c-fps/fes product in vivo which is apparently lifted for v-fps/fes oncoproteins, suggesting that regulatory interactions within the host cell modify fps/fes protein function and normally restrain its oncogenic potential.
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Lübbert M, Miller CW, Crawford L, Koeffler HP. p53 in chronic myelogenous leukemia. Study of mechanisms of differential expression. J Exp Med 1988; 167:873-86. [PMID: 3280726 PMCID: PMC2188905 DOI: 10.1084/jem.167.3.873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The p53 is a nuclear protein that is associated with normal cellular proliferation and can cooperate with Ha-ras in causing cellular transformation in vitro. Lineage association is known to exist between p53 expression and normal lymphopoiesis, but not myelopoiesis. We studied the expression of p53 using chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cell lines, somatic hybrids of these cells, and leukemic cells from CML patients. Lymphoid CML lines expressed both p53 mRNA and protein. We also analyzed p53 synthesis by two B-lymphoid lines from the same CML patient; cells of one line were derived from the neoplastic clone, cells of the other were derived from the normal clone. Both synthesized equal amounts of a phosphorylated p53 protein. None of the myeloid CML lines expressed detectable p53 protein and two of four expressed negligible p53 mRNA. Two other myeloid CML lines and myeloid cells from three of four patients expressed p53 mRNA. These findings suggest that expression of the gene is not regulated normally in CML. Several approaches were pursued to explore the differential expression of p53. Southern blot analyses showed no gross alterations in the p53 gene from cells of either the expressing or the nonexpressing lines. No difference in the pattern of demethylated CpG sites was noted in the region of the p53 gene in cells from K562 (myeloid p53 nonexpressor) and in BV173 (lymphoid p53 expressor). The sites of demethylation clustered in and around the p53 promoter in both cell lines. Somatic hybrids formed between a p53 mRNA nonexpressor myeloid line (K562) and the parental p53 expressor lymphoid lines (Daudi, PUT) produced p53 mRNA and protein, suggesting that p53 is a dominantly expressed protein and that lack of expression in myeloid cells is not mediated by a trans-acting negative regulatory protein. DNA transfection experiments performed using the indicator gene chloramphenicol acetyltransferase attached to promoter sequences of p53 showed that these constructs were equally activated in BV173 (p53 expressor) and K562 (p53 mRNA nonexpressor). The mechanism of p53 regulation in CML remains unclear.
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- M Lübbert
- Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center 90024
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DiPersio J, Billing P, Kaufman S, Eghtesady P, Williams RE, Gasson JC. Characterization of the human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)77952-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Okazaki T, Kato Y, Tashima M, Sawada H, Uchino H. Evidence of intracellular and trans-acting differentiation-inducing activity in human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells: its possible involvement in process of cell differentiation from a commitment step to a phenotype-expression step. J Cell Physiol 1988; 134:261-8. [PMID: 3162239 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041340212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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We previously reported that human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells, when treated with various inducers in magnesium-deficient medium, became committed to differentiate but did not express the differentiation-related phenotypes (Okazaki et al., J. Cell. Physiol., 131:50-57, 1987). In the present study we demonstrated the existence of an intracellular differentiation-inducing activity (int-DIA) in differentiation-committed phenotype-nonexpressing HL-60 cells by using cybrid formation between untreated HL-60 cells and cytoplasts from HL-60 cells treated in magnesium-deficient medium with 100 nM 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3). Cell extracts from similarly treated HL-60 cells also showed int-DIA, which when added (10 mg total protein/ml) to culture of untreated HL-60 cells, could increase the percentages of nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT)- and nonspecific esterase (NSE)-positive cells from 1% to 53%, and from 0 to 32%, respectively. They also induced differentiation of human monoblastic leukemia U-937 cells and of human myeloblastic leukemia KG-1 cells but not of erythroleukemia K-562 cells. These results suggested that the int-DIA had a common effect on differentiation induction in several human myeloid cell lines and may be involved in inducing cells to proceed from a commitment to a phenotype-expression step during human myeloid cell differentiation.
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- T Okazaki
- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
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Greer PA, Meckling-Hansen K, Pawson T. The human c-fps/fes gene product expressed ectopically in rat fibroblasts is nontransforming and has restrained protein-tyrosine kinase activity. Mol Cell Biol 1988; 8:578-87. [PMID: 3352601 PMCID: PMC363183 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.2.578-587.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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A 13-kilobase EcoRI genomic restriction fragment containing the human c-fps/fes proto-oncogene locus was expressed transiently in Cos-1 monkey cells and stably in Rat-2 fibroblasts. In both cases, human c-fps/fes directed synthesis of a 92-kilodalton protein-tyrosine kinase (p92c-fes) indistinguishable from a tyrosine kinase previously identified with anti-fps antiserum which is specifically expressed in human myeloid cells. Transfected Rat-2 cells containing approximately 50-fold more human p92c-fes than is found in human leukemic cells remained morphologically normal and failed to grow in soft agar. Synthesis of p92c-fes in this phenotypically normal line exceeded that of the P130gag-fps oncoprotein in a v-fps-transformed Rat-2 line. Despite this elevated expression, human p92c-fes induced no substantial increase in cellular phosphotyrosine and was not itself phosphorylated on tyrosine. In contrast, p92c-fes immunoprecipitated from these Rat-2 cells or expressed as an enzymatically active fragment in Escherichia coli from a c-fps/fes cDNA catalyzed tyrosine phosphorylation with an activity similar to that of v-fps/fes polypeptides. Thus, p92c-fes is not transforming when ectopically overexpressed in Rat-2 fibroblasts. This lack of transforming activity correlates with a restriction imposed on the kinase activity of the normal c-fps/fes product in vivo which is apparently lifted for v-fps/fes oncoproteins, suggesting that regulatory interactions within the host cell modify fps/fes protein function and normally restrain its oncogenic potential.
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- P A Greer
- Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Olsen LC, Bassøe CF, Pryme IF. Hematopoiesis, myeloid leukemia and growth factors. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 20:883-8. [PMID: 3058534 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(88)90171-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- L C Olsen
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bergen, Norway
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Forrester WC, Takegawa S, Papayannopoulou T, Stamatoyannopoulos G, Groudine M. Evidence for a locus activation region: the formation of developmentally stable hypersensitive sites in globin-expressing hybrids. Nucleic Acids Res 1987; 15:10159-77. [PMID: 3480506 PMCID: PMC339937 DOI: 10.1093/nar/15.24.10159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 371] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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We have analyzed the chromatin structure of the human beta-globin locus in somatic cell hybrids resulting from the fusion of human non-erythroid cells and mouse erythroleukemia (MEL) cells. In these hybrids, the human adult beta-globin gene, but neither the embryonic nor fetal globin genes, is activated transcriptionally. In addition, the DNase I-resistant beta-like globin locus characteristic of the parental non-erythroid human cells (1,2) is reorganized over an approximately 80 kb region, including the formation of the developmentally stable hypersensitive sites 50 kb 5' and 20 kg 3' of the activated adult beta-globin gene (2,3). These results are consistent with the hypothesis that events occurring at the 5' and/or 3' developmentally stable hypersensitive sites are important, if not necessary, for the activation of the beta-globin locus.
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- W C Forrester
- Division of Basic Sciences, Genetics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104
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The translocation of the c-abl oncogene from chromosome 9 to the bcr gene on chromosome 22 in cases of Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) generates an aberrant bcr-abl fusion transcript which may be intimately related to the pathogenesis of CML. Because factors controlling normal bcr expression might also be involved in the expression of this aberrant bcr-abl transcript, we studied the patterns of expression of the normal bcr gene in different cell types. We found that the normal bcr gene was expressed in many different types of human cells. Moreover, the bcr gene was evolutionarily conserved, and homologous bcr genomic sequences and RNA transcripts were readily detected in chick tissue. The highest level of bcr expression in chick tissue was in brain tissue, the lowest level was in liver tissue, and a truncated bcr mRNA was noted in chick testes. Normal bcr transcripts, in addition to the aberrant bcr-abl hybrid transcripts, have been found in all Philadelphia chromosome-positive CML cells studied to date. Within a given CML sample, the relative amounts of normal bcr RNA and aberrant bcr-abl RNA were similar. In addition, the normal bcr and the aberrant bcr-abl hybrid transcripts demonstrated similarly prolonged half-lives compared with that of the normal abl-related transcripts in CML cells. These findings suggest that in CML cells, similar cellular mechanisms control the steady-state levels of both the normal bcr and the bcr-abl fusion RNAs.
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Schalken JA, Roebroek AJ, Oomen PP, Wagenaar SS, Debruyne FM, Bloemers HP, Van de Ven WJ. fur gene expression as a discriminating marker for small cell and nonsmall cell lung carcinomas. J Clin Invest 1987; 80:1545-9. [PMID: 2824565 PMCID: PMC442422 DOI: 10.1172/jci113240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The recently discovered fur gene encodes a membrane-associated protein with a recognition function. To further characterize the gene, we studied its expression by Northern blot analysis using poly(A)-selected RNA from a variety of organs of African green monkey and rat. The fur gene appeared to be differentially expressed, relatively high levels of fur mRNA being present in specimens of liver and kidney, low levels in brain, spleen, and thymus, and very low levels in heart muscle, lung, and testis. mRNA levels in specimens of human lung tissue without neoplastic lesions were also very low. Similar analyses of primary human lung carcinomas of different histopathological types revealed a highly selective and strong elevation of fur expression in nonsmall cell lung carcinomas, but not in small cell lung carcinomas. These results indicate that fur expression can be used to discriminate between these two types of human lung cancer.
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- J A Schalken
- Department of Urology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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