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Buchner M, Swaminathan S, Chen Z, Müschen M. Mechanisms of pre-B-cell receptor checkpoint control and its oncogenic subversion in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Immunol Rev 2015; 263:192-209. [PMID: 25510278 DOI: 10.1111/imr.12235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Pre-B cells within the bone marrow represent the normal counterpart for most acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). During normal early B-cell development, survival and proliferation signals are dominated by cytokines, particularly interleukin-7 (IL-7) for murine developing B cells. With expression of a functional pre-B-cell receptor (BCR), cytokine signaling is attenuated and the tonic/autonomous pre-BCR signaling pathway provides proliferation as well as differentiation signals. In this review, we first describe checkpoint mechanisms during normal B-cell development and then discuss how genetic lesions in these pathways function as oncogenic mimicries and allow transformed pre-B cells to bypass checkpoint control. We focus on cytokine receptor signaling that is mimicked by activating lesions in receptor subunits or downstream mediators as well as aberrant activation of non-B lymphoid cytokine receptors. Furthermore, we describe the molecular switch from cytokine receptor to pre-BCR signaling, how this pathway is of particular importance for certain ALL subtypes, and how pre-BCR signaling is engaged by genetic lesions, such as BCR-ABL1. We discuss the transcriptional control mechanisms downstream of both cytokine- and pre-BCR signaling and how normal checkpoint control mechanisms are circumvented in pre-B ALL. Finally, we highlight new therapeutic concepts for targeted inhibition of oncogenic cytokine or pre-BCR signaling pathways.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maike Buchner
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Osborne LC, Dhanji S, Snow JW, Priatel JJ, Ma MC, Miners MJ, Teh HS, Goldsmith MA, Abraham N. Impaired CD8 T cell memory and CD4 T cell primary responses in IL-7R alpha mutant mice. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 204:619-31. [PMID: 17325202 PMCID: PMC2137912 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20061871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Loss of interleukin (IL)-7 or the IL-7 receptor alpha (IL-7Ralpha, CD127) results in severe immunodeficiencies in mice and humans. To more precisely identify signals governing IL-7 function in vivo, we have disrupted the IL-7Ralpha Y449XXM motif in mice by knock-in mutagenesis (IL-7Ralpha(449F)). Thymic precursors were reduced in number in IL-7Ralpha(449F) mice, but in marked contrast to IL-7Ralpha(-/-) knockout mice, thymocytes and peripheral T cells developed normally. Strikingly, Listeria infection revealed that CD4 and CD8 T cells had different requirements for IL-7Ralpha signals. CD4 T cells failed to mount a primary response, but despite normal CD8 primary responses, maintenance of CD8 memory was impaired in IL-7Ralpha(449F) mice. Furthermore, we show that Bcl-2 is IL-7Ralpha Y449 independent and insufficient for IL-7-mediated maintenance of CD8 memory.
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- Lisa C Osborne
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
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Lali FV, Crawley J, McCulloch DA, Foxwell BMJ. A late, prolonged activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway is required for T cell proliferation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:3527-34. [PMID: 15004153 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.6.3527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI 3-K) pathway is associated with the proliferation of many cell types, including T lymphocytes. However, recent studies in cell lines stably expressing deletion mutants of IL-2R that fail to activate PI 3-K have questioned the requirement for this pathway in cell cycle regulation. In this study with IL-2 and IL-7, we show in primary T cells that, unlike IL-2, IL-7 fails to induce the early activation of PI 3-K seen within minutes and normally associated with cytokine signaling. However, kinetic experiments showed that both of these T cell growth factors induce a distinct and sustained phase of PI 3-K activity several hours after stimulation. This delayed activation correlates with cell cycle induction and from studies using inhibitors of PI 3-K signaling, we show that this later phase, unlike the early activation within minutes, is required for cell cycle induction. The data presented here will have major implications for our understanding of the mechanism of T cell proliferation as well as the regulation of PI 3-K activity.
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- Ferdinand V Lali
- Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Imperial College London, UK
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Bartholdy B, Matthias P. Transcriptional control of B cell development and function. Gene 2004; 327:1-23. [PMID: 14960357 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2003.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2003] [Revised: 10/14/2003] [Accepted: 11/07/2003] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The generation, development, maturation and selection of mammalian B lymphocytes is a complex process that is initiated in the embryo and proceeds throughout life to provide the organism an essential part of the immune system it requires to cope with pathogens. Transcriptional regulation of this highly complex series of events is a major control mechanism, although control is also exerted on all other layers, including splicing, translation and protein stability. This review summarizes our current understanding of transcriptional control of the well-studied murine B cell development, which bears strong similarity to its human counterpart. Animal and cell models with loss of function (gene "knock outs") or gain of function (often transgenes) have significantly contributed to our knowledge about the role of specific transcription factors during B lymphopoiesis. In particular, a large number of different transcriptional regulators have been linked to distinct stages of the life of B lymphocytes such as: differentiation in the bone marrow, migration to the peripheral organs and antigen-induced activation.
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- Boris Bartholdy
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, PO Box 2543, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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Brown VI, Fang J, Alcorn K, Barr R, Kim JM, Wasserman R, Grupp SA. Rapamycin is active against B-precursor leukemia in vitro and in vivo, an effect that is modulated by IL-7-mediated signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:15113-8. [PMID: 14657335 PMCID: PMC299917 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2436348100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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A balance between survival and apoptotic signals regulates B cell development. These signals are tightly regulated by a host of molecules, including IL-7. Abnormal signaling events may lead to neoplastic transformation of progenitor B cells. Signal transduction inhibitors potentially may modulate these abnormal signals. Inhibitors of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) such as rapamycin have been used as immunosuppressive agents. We hypothesized that rapamycin might demonstrate activity against B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. We have found that rapamycin inhibited growth of B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia lines in vitro, with evidence of apoptotic cell death. This growth inhibition was reversible by IL-7. One candidate as a signaling intermediate cross-regulated by rapamycin and IL-7 was p70 S6 kinase. Rapamycin also demonstrated in vivo activity in E mu-ret transgenic mice, which develop pre-B leukemia/lymphoma: E mu-ret transgenic mice with advanced disease treated daily with rapamycin as a single agent showed a >2-fold increase in length of survival as compared with symptomatic littermates who received vehicle alone. These results suggest that mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors may be effective agents against leukemia and that one of the growth signals inhibited by this class of drugs in precursor B leukemic cells may be IL-7-mediated.
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- Valerie I Brown
- Division of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Hematopoiesis is regulated by a variety of signals that either originate within a developing cell or are supplied by the surrounding environment in secreted- or contact-dependent forms. This review discusses the effects of one secreted factor, interleukin-7, on the development of B lymphocytes. We describe a molecular mechanism for a crucial checkpoint during B lineage maturation, based on the integration of signals mediated by the pre-B cell receptor, the interleukin-7 receptor, and the environment in which these signals are received.
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- Heather E Fleming
- Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, 610 University Avenue, 7-504 Toronto, Ont., Canada M5G 2M9.
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Lai SY, Molden J, Goldsmith MA. Shared gamma(c) subunit within the human interleukin-7 receptor complex. A molecular basis for the pathogenesis of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency. J Clin Invest 1997; 99:169-77. [PMID: 9005984 PMCID: PMC507783 DOI: 10.1172/jci119144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Genetic evidence suggests that mutations in the gamma(c) receptor subunit cause X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID). The gamma(c) subunit can be employed in receptor complexes for IL-2, -4, -7, -9, and -15, and the multiple signaling defects that would result from a defective gamma(c) chain in these receptors are proposed to cause the severe phenotype of X-SCID patients. Interestingly, gene disruption of either IL-7 or the IL-7 receptor (IL-7R) alpha subunit in mice leads to immunological defects that are similar to human X-SCID. These observations suggest the functional importance of gamma(c) in the IL-7R complex. In the present study, structure/function analyses of the IL-7R complex using a chimeric receptor system demonstrated that gamma(c) is indeed critical for IL-7R function. Nonetheless, only a limited portion of the cytoplasmic domain of gamma(c) is necessary for IL-7R signal transduction. Furthermore, replacement of the gamma(c) cytoplasmic domain by a severely truncated erythropoeitin receptor does not affect measured IL-7R signaling events. These findings support a model in which gamma(c) serves primarily to activate signal transduction by the IL-7R complex, while IL-7R alpha determines specific signaling events through its association with cytoplasmic signaling molecules. Finally, these studies are consistent with the hypothesis that the molecular pathogenesis of X-SCID is due primarily to gamma(c)-mediated defects in the IL-7/IL-7R system.
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- S Y Lai
- Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, California 94141-9100, USA
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In recent years, it has become apparent that IL-7, originally characterized as a growth factor for pre-B lymphocytes, also has important implications for the skin. Keratinocytes have been shown to produce IL-7. which in turn can elicit a variety of biological responses on several cell types residing in the skin. IL-7 has been demonstrated to augment the cytolytic activity of cytotoxic T cells (CTL) and natural killer (NK) cells against various neoplastic targets including melanoma cells. Proliferation and long-term survival of murine dendritic epidermal T lymphocytes (DETC) in vitro is supported by IL-7. IL-7 also induces secretion of inflammatory cytokines by monocytes/macrophages and renders these cells to become tumoricidal against melanoma cells. Normal and malignant melanocytes respond to IL-7 with increased expression of intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM-1). In addition, IL-7 has been shown to act as growth factor for Sezary cells, suggesting a role of keratinocyte-derived IL-7 in the pathogenesis of cutaneous T cell lymphoma. Because of the potent in vitro immunomodulatory effects of IL-7 which have been confirmed in mouse tumor models, IL-7 may become a valuable additional agent to immunotherapeutical regimens currently studied in patients with advanced melanoma. This review summarizes our present knowledge about the molecular and immunological properties of IL7 with emphasis on the effects of that cytokine within the cutaneous compartment and the potential clinical utility in dermatology.
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- P Möller
- Department of Dermatology, Virchow Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Meydan N, Grunberger T, Dadi H, Shahar M, Arpaia E, Lapidot Z, Leeder JS, Freedman M, Cohen A, Gazit A, Levitzki A, Roifman CM. Inhibition of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia by a Jak-2 inhibitor. Nature 1996; 379:645-8. [PMID: 8628398 DOI: 10.1038/379645a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 727] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common cancer of childhood. Despite the progress achieved in its treatment, 20% of cases relapse and no longer respond to chemotherapy. The most common phenotype of ALL cells share surface antigens with very early precursors of B cells and are therefore believed to originate from this lineage. Characterization of the growth requirement of ALL cells indicated that they were dependent on various cytokines, suggesting paracrine and/or autocrine growth regulation. Because many cytokines induce tyrosine phosphorylation in lymphoid progenitor cells, and constitutive tyrosine phosphorylation is commonly observed in B-lineage leukaemias, attempts have been made to develop protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) blockers of leukaemia cell growth. Here we show that leukaemic cells from patients in relapse have constitutively activated Jak-2 PTK. Inhibition of Jak-2 activity by a specific tyrosine kinase blocker, AG-490, selectively blocks leukaemic cell growth in vitro and in vivo by inducing programmed cell death, with no deleterious effect on normal haematopoiesis.
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- N Meydan
- Division of Immunology/Allergy, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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Billips LG, Nuñez CA, Bertrand FE, Stankovic AK, Gartland GL, Burrows PD, Cooper MD. Immunoglobulin recombinase gene activity is modulated reciprocally by interleukin 7 and CD19 in B cell progenitors. J Exp Med 1995; 182:973-82. [PMID: 7561700 PMCID: PMC2192306 DOI: 10.1084/jem.182.4.973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Bone marrow stromal cells promote B cell development involving recombinase gene-directed rearrangement of the immunoglobulin genes. We observed that the stromal cell-derived cytokine interleukin 7 (IL-7) enhances the expression of CD19 molecules on progenitor B-lineage cells in human bone marrow samples and downregulates the expression of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) and the recombinase-activating genes RAG-1 and RAG-2. Initiation of the TdT downregulation on the first day of treatment, CD19 upregulation during the second day, and RAG-1 and RAG-2 downmodulation during the third day implied a cascade of IL-7 effects. While CD19 ligation by divalent antibodies had no direct effect on TdT or RAG gene expression, CD19 cross-linkage complete blocked the IL-7 downregulation of RAG expression without affecting the earlier TdT response. These results suggest that signals generated through CD19 and the IL-7 receptor could modulate immunoglobulin gene rearrangement and repertoire diversification during the early stages of B cell differentiation.
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- L G Billips
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294, USA
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Kee BL, Paige CJ. Murine B cell development: commitment and progression from multipotential progenitors to mature B lymphocytes. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1995; 157:129-79. [PMID: 7706019 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62158-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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B lymphocytes, the cellular source of antibody, are critical components of the immune response. They develop from multipotential stem cells, progressively acquiring the traits that allow them to function as mature B lymphocytes. This developmental program is dependent on appropriate interactions with the surrounding environment. These interactions, mediated by cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, provide the growth and differentiation signals that promote progression along the developmental pathway. This chapter addresses the properties of developing B lineage cells and the nature of the environmental signals that support B lineage progression.
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- B L Kee
- Wellesley Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/chemistry
- Antigens, CD/drug effects
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Antigens, CD/physiology
- Brain/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genetic Therapy
- Hematopoiesis/drug effects
- Hematopoiesis/physiology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/drug effects
- Humans
- Immunologic Factors/therapeutic use
- Immunotherapy, Adoptive
- Infections/physiopathology
- Interleukin-7/genetics
- Interleukin-7/pharmacology
- Interleukin-7/physiology
- Interleukin-7/therapeutic use
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/cytology
- Lymphocytes/cytology
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Biological
- Neoplasms, Experimental/drug therapy
- Neuroimmunomodulation/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin/chemistry
- Receptors, Interleukin/drug effects
- Receptors, Interleukin/genetics
- Receptors, Interleukin/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin-7
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/physiology
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Transfection
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- P M Appasamy
- Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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CELLULAR ACTIVATION. Cell Immunol 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-208885-8.50018-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Delves P. CELL-SURFACE ANTIGENS. Cell Immunol 1994. [PMCID: PMC7155440 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-208885-8.50013-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The cell surface is covered with protein molecules that are held in the membrane by hydrophobic transmembrane segments or glycosyl–phosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors. Antigens found on cell surfaces comprise not only those encoded by the cell itself but also the products of intracellular parasites. Soluble ligands may be bound to receptor structures on the cell membrane or lectin-like molecules bound to cell-surface carbohydrate structures. The molecules that form an integral part of the cell surface may be proteins, glycoproteins, or glycolipids. They subserve one of three major functions: adhesion, antigen recognition, or receptors for soluble mediators. However, many cell-surface molecules possess more than one function—for example, molecules involved in cell–cell or cell–extracellular matrix adhesion can also themselves be involved in signal transduction. The cell-surface antigens of leukocytes have been intensively studied because of ease of access to this cellular compartment.
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Developing erythroid cells require the glycoprotein hormone, erythropoietin (EPO) as an activator of the rapid proliferation of early proerythroblasts (colony forming units-erythroid [CFU-e]), and subsequently as an activator of late erythroid gene expression. Activation of these growth and differentiation events proceeds from the binding of EPO at its transmembrane receptor (Class I cytokine receptor), to the engagement of a complex set of signaling pathways. Studies of reconstituted activities of the cloned EPO receptor in transfected hematopoietic cell lines have served well in identifying receptor domains and downstream mediators involved in proliferative signaling. Extracellular domains have been defined which contribute to ligand binding, receptor processing and transport, and possible dimerization. Cytosolic regions have been delineated which mediate induced mitogenesis, early gene transcription, activated protein tyrosine phosphorylation, down modulation of EPO- and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-induced proliferation, and direct association with PI3- and JAK-2 kinases. These newly defined properties begin to align the EPO receptor mechanistically with growth factor receptors (GFR) which encode, or likewise associate with, regulated protein tyrosine kinases including the Class II cytokine receptors for interferons alpha/beta and gamma. An improved understanding of factors which mediate EPO-induced late erythroid gene activation also is emerging. These factors and pathways may be distinct from those associated with EPO-induced proliferation and may involve induced increases in cellular Ca++, cAMP and arachidonic acid, as well as the modulation of GATA-1, and/or SCL. Attributes of model systems used in studies of the role of EPO in late erythroid differentiation also are considered.
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- D M Wojchowski
- Center for Gene Regulation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802
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