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The malignant, CD5+ B lymphocytes of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) die by apoptosis in vitro. This is in contrast to the prolonged life span of the leukemic cells in vivo and likely reflects the lack of essential growth factors in the tissue culture medium. We found that interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) inhibits programmed cell death and promotes survival of B-CLL cells in culture. This effect may also be important in vivo: increased serum levels of IFN-gamma, ranging from 60 to > 2,200 pg/ml, were found in 7 of 10 B-CLL samples tested, whereas the sera of 10 healthy individuals did not contain detectable levels of this cytokine (< 20 pg/ml). High levels of IFN-gamma message were detected in RNA from T cell-depleted B-CLL peripheral blood samples by Northern blot analysis. Synthesis of IFN-gamma by B-CLL lymphocytes was confirmed by in situ hybridization and flow cytometry. The majority of B-CLL cells (74-82%) expressed detectable levels of IFN-gamma mRNA, and CD19+ B-CLL cells were labeled with anti-IFN-gamma monoclonal antibodies. These results show that IFN-gamma inhibits programmed cell death in B-CLL cells and suggest that the malignant cells are able to synthesize this cytokine. By delaying apoptosis, IFN-gamma may extend the life span of the malignant cells and thereby contribute to their clonal accumulation.
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Apoptosis/efectos de los fármacos , Interferón gamma/farmacología , Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/patología , Antígenos CD/análisis , Antígenos CD19 , Antígenos de Diferenciación de Linfocitos B/análisis , Humanos , Interferón gamma/biosíntesis , Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/inmunología , Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/metabolismo , Células Tumorales CultivadasRESUMEN
The B lymphoproliferative disorders B chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) and hairy cell leukemia (HCL) produce a number of autocrine growth factors, including tumor necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and IL-1, all of which may induce positive feedback growth loops. If such malignancies depend on these autocrine growth loops for survival, their interruption may be therapeutically valuable. Interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) abrogates TNF- or IL-6-induced proliferation of HCL and B-CLL cells in vitro and has therapeutic activity in these diseases. We have investigated the possibility that IFN-alpha may act by interrupting autocrine growth factor loops. If purified B-CLL or HCL cells are cultured in the presence of TNF, there is induction of mRNA for TNF, IL-1 alpha, IL-1 beta, and IL-6. However, culture in the presence of IFN-alpha in addition to TNF reduced the level of mRNA for all these cytokines, compared with cells cultured in TNF alone. While cytokine mRNA levels were diminished, levels of mRNA for the ribonuclease activator 2-5A synthetase were increased. Analysis of the kinetics of cytokine mRNA production showed that levels fall shortly after the rise of 2-5A synthetase mRNA. IFN-alpha may produce these effects by shortening the half-life of cytokine mRNA, since TNF mRNA half-life in B-CLL and HCL cells is substantially reduced when the cells are cultured with IFN-alpha. These data suggest that IFN-alpha may mediate its therapeutic effects in these malignancies by blocking autocrine growth factor loops.
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Citocinas/genética , Leucemia de Células Pilosas/inmunología , Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/inmunología , Linfocitos/inmunología , ARN Mensajero/genética , Adulto , Anciano , Células Cultivadas , Femenino , Humanos , Interferón Tipo I/genética , Interleucina-1/genética , Interleucina-6/genética , Cinética , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Fenotipo , Mapeo Restrictivo , Factor de Necrosis Tumoral alfa/genéticaRESUMEN
Patients with thalassemia major requiring regular blood transfusions accumulate iron that is toxic to the heart, liver, and endocrine systems. The following prospective, randomized trial was carried out to determine the effectiveness, in children and young adults, of combined deferiprone (DFP) and deferoxamine (DFO) in reducing transfusional iron overload compared to either drug alone and to assess the safety and tolerability of DFP. Sixty-six patients were randomized into three treatment arms: daily DFP combined with DFO twice weekly; daily DFP only; and DFO only 5 days/week. Fifty-six patients completed the 54 weeks and were assessed by different indices. A significant reduction of liver iron concentration and serum ferritin was observed in all three arms while significant reduction of liver iron score was observed in patients on combination therapy only. Cardiac function did not significantly change in any arm. Compliance improved in patients who received combined therapy. Toxicity of DFP was mild to moderate and acceptable; most commonly, transient arthropathy and nausea/vomiting were observed. Thus, combination therapy has shown to be effective in reducing iron overload in thalassemia patients.
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Terapia por Quelación/métodos , Deferoxamina/uso terapéutico , Quelantes del Hierro/uso terapéutico , Sobrecarga de Hierro/tratamiento farmacológico , Piridonas/uso terapéutico , Talasemia/tratamiento farmacológico , Adolescente , Adulto , Terapia por Quelación/efectos adversos , Niño , Preescolar , Deferiprona , Deferoxamina/administración & dosificación , Deferoxamina/efectos adversos , Esquema de Medicación , Quimioterapia Combinada , Egipto/epidemiología , Femenino , Ferritinas/análisis , Ferritinas/sangre , Humanos , Quelantes del Hierro/administración & dosificación , Quelantes del Hierro/efectos adversos , Sobrecarga de Hierro/etiología , Sobrecarga de Hierro/prevención & control , Hígado/patología , Masculino , Cooperación del Paciente , Estudios Prospectivos , Piridonas/administración & dosificación , Piridonas/efectos adversos , Talasemia/complicaciones , Talasemia/epidemiología , Reacción a la TransfusiónRESUMEN
Chromatography on benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE-cellulose has been used to fractionate fully double-stranded from partially single-stranded DNA molecules. DNA was extracted from phytohemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes from patients with megaloblastic anemia resulting from vitamin B12 or folate deficiency after pulse-labeling the cells with [3H]thymidine for 5 min and chasing in unlabeled medium for 24 h. No gross accumulation of partially single-stranded material was observed in the DNA of these cells when compared with DNA from similarly labeled control cells obtained by the addition of 5-formyl tetrahydrofolic acid to the culture medium. When DNA from lymphocytes labeled with a 5-min pulse of [3H]thymidine and sheared to fragments of an average length of 18 micrometer was chromatographed on benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE-cellulose, approximately 80% of the label was recovered in the partially single-stranded fraction. After chasing in unlabeled medium the label was progressively transferred to the double-stranded fraction over a period of 2--3 h. The rate of transfer was slower in megaloblastic lymphocytes than in controls. The difference in rate suggested a slower rate of replication fork movement in megaloblastic lymphocytes and so the density shift technique of Painter and schaeffer (J. Mol. Biol. 45: 467--479, 1969) was used to measure the fork rate directly. [3H]Deoxycytidine was used as the labeled nucleoside to avoid possible complications arising from [3H]thymidine labeling of megaloblastic cells. Investigations on the lymphocytes from four patients showed that the replication fork rate in vitamin-treated control lyphocytes was about 1 micrometer/min. The fork rates in the corresponding untreated cells were invariably lower and rates ranging from 40 to 92% of those of controls were observed. Normal lymphocytes treated with the deoxynucleotide pool-depleting drugs methotrexate or hydroxyurea displayed defects in DNA synthesis similar to those of untreated megaloblastic lymphocytes. We propose that the delayed DNA replication fork movement in cells of patients with megaloblastic anemia results from impaired biosynthesis of DNA precursors.
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Anemia Macrocítica/sangre , Anemia Megaloblástica/sangre , Replicación del ADN , Linfocitos/metabolismo , ADN/sangre , ADN de Cadena Simple/sangre , Humanos , Cinética , Activación de Linfocitos , Precursores de Ácido Nucleico/sangre , Fitohemaglutininas/farmacologíaRESUMEN
We have studied the in vitro actions of the sesquiterpene lactone parthenolide (PTL) on cells isolated from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Dye reduction viability assays showed that the median LD(50) for PTL was 6.2 muM (n=78). Fifteen of these isolates were relatively resistant to the conventional agent chlorambucil but retained sensitivity to PTL. Brief exposures to PTL (1-3 h) were sufficient to induce caspase activation and commitment to cell death. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells were more sensitive towards PTL than were normal T lymphocytes or CD34(+) haematopoietic progenitor cells. The mechanism of cell killing was via PTL-induced generation of reactive oxygen species, resulting in turn in a proapoptotic Bax conformational change, release of mitochondrial cytochrome c and caspase activation. Parthenolide also decreased nuclear levels of the antiapoptotic transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa B and diminished phosphorylation of its negative regulator IkappaB. Killing of CLL cells by PTL was apparently independent of p53 induction. This is the first report showing the relative selectivity of PTL towards CLL cells. The data here warrant further investigation of this class of natural product as potential therapeutic agents for CLL.
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Apoptosis/efectos de los fármacos , Lactonas/farmacología , Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/tratamiento farmacológico , Sesquiterpenos/farmacología , Línea Celular Tumoral , Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga , Ensayos de Selección de Medicamentos Antitumorales , Células Madre Hematopoyéticas/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Mitocondrias/efectos de los fármacos , Mitocondrias/metabolismo , FN-kappa B/efectos de los fármacos , Linfocitos T/efectos de los fármacos , Proteína p53 Supresora de Tumor/efectos de los fármacos , Proteína p53 Supresora de Tumor/metabolismo , Regulación hacia ArribaRESUMEN
Combinations of antibodies to membrane antigens and to terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) were used to study human thymocyte and bone marrow subpopulations and leukemia cells. Cortical thymocytes were TdT+ and expressed T-cell antigens (HuTLA+), a thymocyte-specific antigen (HTA-1+), and a leukocyte antigen (HLe-l++) but lacked detectable HLA-A,B,C and la (HLA-D) antigens. In contrast, medullary thymocytes were TdT-, HuTLA+, HTA-1-, HLe-l++. A small subpopulation of larger, probably immature, thymocytes were strongly TdT+, HuTLA+, la-, HTA-1-, HLe-l +/-. Many blast cells from cases of thymic acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Thy-ALL) showed the phenotype of this small subset, and only a proportion of Thy-ALL blast cells exhibited HTA-1 and HLe-l antigens as strongly as was observed on normal cortical thymocytes. In contrast, TdT+ cells observed in normal juvenile bone marrow were HuTLA, HTA-1-, HLA+, la+. This phenotype corresponded to the phenotype of the common form of ALL (non-T, non-B) and indicated that further studies are necessary to analyze the differentiation of bone marrow precursors to thymic cells.
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Anticuerpos/inmunología , Leucemia Linfoide/patología , Linfocitos T/patología , Complejo Antígeno-Anticuerpo , Médula Ósea/inmunología , Médula Ósea/patología , Niño , Preescolar , Células Clonales , Técnicas Citológicas , Humanos , Técnicas Inmunológicas , Leucemia Linfoide/diagnóstico , Leucemia Linfoide/inmunología , Tejido Linfoide/inmunología , Tejido Linfoide/patología , Fenotipo , Timo/inmunología , Timo/patologíaRESUMEN
The double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated protein kinase (PKR) is one of many genes induced by IFN. The PKR sequentially undergoes autophosphorylation and activation on binding to dsRNA. Previous studies have shown that PKR may be an important factor in the regulation of viral and cellular protein synthesis. Recent studies suggest that PKR may function as a tumor suppressor gene. The role of PKR in various human leukemic cells was therefore investigated. PKR mRNA levels by reverse transcription-PCR, protein expression by Western blot and FACScan analysis, and activity by phosphorylation status were studied. The expression of a known inhibitor of PKR, p58, was also investigated at mRNA and protein levels. A total of 24 samples from normal mononuclear cells (MNCs), 26 samples of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 26 samples of acute myelogenous leukemia, 32 samples of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and 5 samples of hairy cell leukemia was investigated. Mean mRNA levels were increased in acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myelogenous leukemia and decreased in chronic lymphocytic leukemia compared to normal MNCs. The mRNA levels in hairy cell leukemia were similar to those of normal MNCs. PKR protein was detectable in normal MNCs and leukemic cell extracts, and on FACScan analysis, more than 70% of cells stained positive for PKR. PKR activity was detectable in all samples investigated and was enhanced 4-23-fold in the presence of the synthetic dsRNA, poly(I) x poly(C). Protein expression of a known PKR inhibitor, p58, was barely detectable in normal MNCs and leukemic cells, with high expression in the HeLa cell line. These findings provide no evidence to support the hypothesis that PKR acts as a tumor suppressor in human leukemic cells.
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Leucemia/enzimología , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinasas/fisiología , Regulación Enzimológica de la Expresión Génica , Humanos , Leucemia/genética , Leucocitos Mononucleares/enzimología , Fosforilación , ARN Bicatenario/metabolismo , ARN Mensajero/genética , eIF-2 QuinasaRESUMEN
Tyrosine protein kinases (TPKs) have been implicated in mitotic signalling in a wide range of cells including lymphocytes. We describe here the partial characterization of a heat stable TPK inhibitor from both normal and malignant human lymphoid cells. Inhibitory activity was not attributable to contaminating ATPase, protease or phosphatase activities or to the Ca2+-binding protein S100. Preparations of the TPK inhibitor did not reduce the activity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. While the inhibitor decreased the activity of TPKs towards an exogenous peptide substrate, it did not affect the autophosphorylation of microsomal TPKs. These results raise the possibility that the activity of TPKs in lymphoid cells may be regulated by an inhibitor protein.
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Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/metabolismo , Linfocitos/análisis , Proteínas Tirosina Quinasas/antagonistas & inhibidores , Adenosina Trifosfatasas/análisis , Anexina A6 , Proteínas de Unión al Calcio/análisis , Calor , HumanosRESUMEN
Synthetic ceramides induce apoptotic death of Jurkat and HL60 leukaemia cell lines. By contrast we show here that ceramide induces non-apoptotic killing of malignant cells from patients with B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) and of normal B lymphocytes. The protein phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid readily induces apoptosis of B-CLL cells, indicating that this death pathway is fully functional in these cells. The ability of ceramide to activate the apoptotic protease caspase 3 in HL60 cells but not in B-CLL cells, as well as the lack of correlation of ceramide-mediated killing of different B-CLL isolates with expression of the apoptosis-regulating proteins bcl-2 and bax reinforce the conclusion that ceramide killing of B-CLL cells is by a non-apoptotic mechanism. Fludarabine treatment or gamma-irradiation of B-CLL cells resulted in ceramide elevation and in killing by both apoptotic and non-apoptotic mechanisms, suggesting that a ceramide-triggered non-apoptotic mechanism may play a role in the killing of these cells. Therefore, the results here show that ceramide can induce either apoptotic or non-apoptotic death, depending on the cellular context. The inability of synthetic dihydroceramide to kill B-CLL cells or normal B lymphocytes suggests that non-apoptotic killing by ceramide is via interaction with a specific, but unidentified, cellular target.
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Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/tratamiento farmacológico , Linfocitos/efectos de los fármacos , Linfocitos/patología , Esfingosina/análogos & derivados , Amidohidrolasas/antagonistas & inhibidores , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Apoptosis , Caspasa 3 , Caspasas/efectos de los fármacos , Caspasas/metabolismo , Muerte Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Ceramidasas , Inhibidores Enzimáticos/farmacología , Rayos gamma , Humanos , Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/patología , Leucemia Linfocítica Crónica de Células B/radioterapia , Linfocitos/efectos de la radiación , Miristatos/farmacología , Propanolaminas/farmacología , Biosíntesis de Proteínas , Proteínas/efectos de los fármacos , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas/efectos de los fármacos , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas/metabolismo , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas c-bcl-2/efectos de los fármacos , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas c-bcl-2/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas c-bcl-2/metabolismo , Esfingosina/farmacología , Vidarabina/análogos & derivados , Vidarabina/farmacología , Proteína X Asociada a bcl-2RESUMEN
Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive leukaemia cells express the chimeric bcr/abl oncoprotein, whose deregulated protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activity antagonizes the induction of apoptosis by DNA damaging agents. Treatment of Ph-positive K562, TOM 1 and KCL-22 cells with etoposide for 2d induced cytosolic vacuolation, but not nuclear condensation or DNA fragmentation. The bcr/abl kinase-selective inhibitor herbimycin A increased the induction of nuclear apoptosis by etoposide or gamma-radiation. The concentration of herbimycin required to synergize with etoposide was similar to that required to decrease the level of tyrosine phosphorylated proteins or of the protein tyrosine kinase activity of anti-abl immune complexes in K562 cells. The ability of herbimycin A to sensitize K562, TOM 1 or KCL-22 cells to apoptosis induction correlated with its ability to decrease the cellular content of phosphotyrosyl proteins in these Philadelphia-positive lines. Enhancement of nuclear apoptosis by herbimycin was not attributable to downregulation of the bcl-2 or bcl-XL anti-apoptotic proteins. In contrast, herbimycin protected Philadelphia-negative HL60 cells from apoptosis induction by etoposide and did not affect killing of NC37 and CEM cells. The data suggest that the induction of apoptosis is blocked in cells expressing the bcr/abl oncoprotein and that herbimycin A increases induction of programmed cell death following DNA damage. Selective PTK inhibitors may therefore be of value in securing the genetic death of Ph-positive leukaemia cells.
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Apoptosis/efectos de los fármacos , Apoptosis/efectos de la radiación , Etopósido/farmacología , Proteínas de Fusión bcr-abl/análisis , Rayos gamma , Leucemia Eritroblástica Aguda/tratamiento farmacológico , Leucemia Eritroblástica Aguda/patología , Quinonas/farmacología , Antibióticos Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Antineoplásicos Fitogénicos/farmacología , Apoptosis/genética , Benzoquinonas , Proteínas de Fusión bcr-abl/efectos de los fármacos , Proteínas de Fusión bcr-abl/efectos de la radiación , Células HL-60 , Humanos , Lactamas Macrocíclicas , Leucemia Eritroblástica Aguda/genética , Leucemia Mielógena Crónica BCR-ABL Positiva/tratamiento farmacológico , Leucemia Mielógena Crónica BCR-ABL Positiva/patología , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas c-bcl-2/biosíntesis , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas c-bcl-2/efectos de los fármacos , Rifabutina/análogos & derivados , Células Tumorales Cultivadas , Proteína bcl-XRESUMEN
DNA from phytohaemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes which had been pulse-labelled for 1 min with [3H]deoxycytidine eluted as partially single-stranded DNA from columns of benzoylated napthoylated DEAE-cellulose. The label was transferred progressively into the double-stranded DNA fraction upon incubation in the presence of unlabelled deoxycytidine. The rate of transfer was slower in untreated lymphocytes from patients with megaloblastic anaemia than in corresponding control cells. A similar delay was also observed in normal lymphocytes treated with methotrexate or hydroxyurea. A close temporal correlation between the joining of Okazaki pieces (measured by alkaline sucrose gradients) and the transfer of the pulse label to double-stranded DNA suggested that the latter process represented the filling of gaps between Okazaki pieces. We suggest that this gap-filling step is retarded in megaloblastic anaemia and in cells treated with methotrexate or hydroxyurea.
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Anemia Macrocítica/sangre , Anemia Megaloblástica/sangre , Replicación del ADN , ADN de Cadena Simple/sangre , Linfocitos/metabolismo , Cromatografía de Afinidad , Humanos , Hidroxiurea/farmacología , Cinética , Linfocitos/efectos de los fármacos , Metotrexato/farmacologíaRESUMEN
1. Autoradiographic experiments revealed that the average size of the replicating unit (replicon) in human phytohaemagglutunin-stimulated lymphocytes is 45 (+/- 1.3) micron. 2. A 5 min pulse of [3H]thymidine labelled DNA chains of approximately 40 S (15 micron) in control lymphocytes as revealed by velocity sedimentation in alkaline sucrose density gradients. Upon chasing in the absence of [3H]-thymidine the labelled DNA increased in size. By 6 h the bulk of the label co-sedimented with full-sized chromosomal DNA. 3. In untreated lymphocytes from patients with megaloblastic anaemia due to vitamin B-12 or folate deficiency or lymphocytes treated with methotrexate (10(-5) M) or hydroxyurea (5 . 10(-4) M) the increase in size of pulse-labelled DNA was slower than in control cells. 4. The block in maturation of pulse-labelled DNA to bulk DNA was not permanent. At 24 h of chase 75-80% of the pulse-label in both control and megaloblastic lymphocytes co-sedimented with bulk DNA. 5. We conclude that the lesions seen in DNA synthesis in megaloblastic anaemia due to folate or vitamin B-12 deficiencies occur through impaired biosynthesis of nucleotide precursors of DNA. Possible explanations of why the defects in DNA synthesis cause altered morphology of proliferating cells in megaloblastic anaemia are suggested.
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Anemia Macrocítica/metabolismo , Anemia Megaloblástica/metabolismo , Replicación del ADN , Autorradiografía , Centrifugación por Gradiente de Densidad , Deficiencia de Ácido Fólico/complicaciones , Humanos , Hidroxiurea/farmacología , Técnicas In Vitro , Linfocitos/metabolismo , Metotrexato/farmacología , Deficiencia de Vitamina B 12/complicacionesRESUMEN
DNA synthesis has been studied in nuclei isolated from phytohaemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes from normal subjects and patients with megaloblastic anaemia. Lymphocytes were incubated for 72 h, nuclei isolated and incorporation of tritiated deoxythymidine triphosphate ([3H]TTP) into DNA measured, usually over a 10 min incubation period. Preincubation of normal phytohaemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes with methotrexate (1 - 10(-5) M, 48--72 h), 5-fluorouracil (1 - 10(-6) M, 70--72 h), and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl cytosine (cytosine arabinoside) (4 - 10(-5) M, 71--72 h) caused a mean rise in [3H]TTP incorporation of 1.7 (P less than 0.01), 1.7 (P less than 0.05) and 2.4 (P less than 0.0025) fold, respectively. Hydroxyurea (3 - 10(-4) M, 48--72 h) in two experiments caused a mean increase of 1.6 fold. Untreated vitamin B-12- and folate-deficient cells showed a 2.0-fold (P less than 0.05) increase above the incorporation when the deficiencies were corrected by addition of vitamin B-12 and folic acid between 0 and 72 h in vitro. The mean percentages of the incorporation due to ATP-independent synthesis in nuclei from normal untreated cells, 5-fluorouracil-treated, cytosine arabinoside treated and vitamin B-12- or folate-deficient cells were 56 +/- 7% S.E., 41 +/- 7%, 84 +/- 3% and 28 +/- 6%, respectively. 5-Fluorouracil caused a two-fold increase in the cytoplasmic fraction of DNA polymerase when added to phytohaemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes between 48 and 72 h of culture but had no significant effect when added between 70 and 72 h.
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Anemia Macrocítica/metabolismo , Anemia Megaloblástica/metabolismo , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Replicación del ADN , ADN/biosíntesis , Deficiencia de Ácido Fólico/metabolismo , Linfocitos/metabolismo , Deficiencia de Vitamina B 12/metabolismo , Adenosina Trifosfato/metabolismo , Adulto , Anciano , Citarabina/farmacología , ADN Polimerasa Dirigida por ADN/metabolismo , Etilmaleimida/farmacología , Femenino , Fluorouracilo/farmacología , Humanos , Hidroxiurea/farmacología , Cinética , Lectinas/farmacología , Activación de Linfocitos , Linfocitos/efectos de los fármacos , Masculino , Metotrexato/farmacología , Persona de Mediana Edad , Nucleótidos de Timina/metabolismoRESUMEN
Lymphocytes were induced to express receptors for interleukin-2 by stimulation for 5 days with phytohaemagglutinin and subsequently permeabilized by treatment with L-alpha-lysophosphatidylcholine. Phosphorylation of an 85 kDa protein was stimulated when these cells were treated with interleukin-2 or with an antibody directed against the interleukin-2 receptor.
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Interleucina-2/farmacología , Linfocitos/metabolismo , Fosfoproteínas/sangre , Permeabilidad de la Membrana Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Técnicas Inmunológicas , Técnicas de Inmunoadsorción , Interleucina-2/metabolismo , Lisofosfatidilcolinas/farmacología , Fitohemaglutininas/farmacología , Proteína Quinasa C/metabolismo , Receptores Inmunológicos/inmunología , Receptores Inmunológicos/metabolismo , Receptores de Interleucina-2RESUMEN
A multienzyme complex containing at least DNA polymerase (EC 2.7.7.7), thymidine kinase (EC 2.7.1.21), dTMP kinase (EC 2.7.4.9) nucleoside diphosphokinase (EC 2.7.4.6) and thymidylate synthetase was separated from the corresponding free enzymes of DNA precursor synthesis by gel filtration of a gently lysed preparation of HPB-ALL cells (a human lymphoblastoid cell line). The isolated incorporated the distal DNA precursors [3H]thymidine or [3H]dTMP into an added DNA template at rates comparable to those observed using the immediate precursor [3H]dTTP. Measurement of the apparent overall concentrations of [3H]dTTP produced during incorporation of [3H]thymidine and of [3H]dTMP were so low as to suggest that these precursors were channelled into DNA by the operation of a kinetically linked complex of precursor-synthesizing enzymes and of DNA polymerase. The DNA polymerase inhibitor 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine triphosphate reduced incorporation of distal precursors into DNA. However [3H]dTTP did not accumulate in the reaction mixture. This suggested that the DNA polymerase regulated the flow of substrates through the complex. The results in this paper constitute direct evidence for the existence of multienzyme complexes of DNA synthesis in mammalian cells.
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Replicación del ADN , ADN Polimerasa Dirigida por ADN/aislamiento & purificación , Leucemia Linfoide/enzimología , Metiltransferasas/aislamiento & purificación , Complejos Multienzimáticos/aislamiento & purificación , Nucleósido-Difosfato Quinasa/aislamiento & purificación , Nucleósido-Fosfato Quinasa/aislamiento & purificación , Fosfotransferasas/aislamiento & purificación , Timidina Quinasa/aislamiento & purificación , Timidilato Sintasa/aislamiento & purificación , Línea Celular , Cromatografía en Gel , Humanos , Cinética , Complejos Multienzimáticos/metabolismoRESUMEN
Ligands including phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies trigger the generation of inositol lipid-derived second messengers following their binding to cell-surface structures of human T lymphoid cells. Previous evidence has suggested that the generation of leukotrienes may play an intermediary role in coupling the ligation of T lymphoid cell-surface structures to the inositol lipid signalling system in these cells (A.R. Mire-Sluis et al. (1989) FEBS Lett. 258, 84-88). Here we have studied the actions of two novel selective leukotriene biosynthesis inhibitors, MK 886 and BW A4C and of two general lipid soluble antioxidants, butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) on this pathway. Neither MK 886 nor BW A4C abrogated stimulation of inositol lipid breakdown following PHA or anti CD3 treatment of T lymphocytes. By contrast, this pathway was inhibited by BHT and BHA. These observations, together with our failure to demonstrate the generation of lipoxygenase products following PHA stimulation of T lymphocytes, suggests that an antioxidant-sensitive step other than the generation of leukotrienes plays a critical role in coupling cell-surface receptors to the inositol lipid signalling system in these cells. By contrast none of these inhibitors abrogated ligand-stimulated inositol lipid signalling in Jurkat T acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells. These results suggest a heterogeneity in the organization of the signal transduction machinery in lymphoid cells at different stages of differentiation.
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Antígenos de Diferenciación de Linfocitos T/efectos de los fármacos , Antioxidantes/farmacología , Leucotrienos/fisiología , Fosfatidilinositoles/metabolismo , Linfocitos T/efectos de los fármacos , Ácido Araquidónico/metabolismo , Células Cultivadas , Humanos , Leucemia-Linfoma de Células T del Adulto , Leucotrienos/biosíntesis , Activación de Linfocitos/fisiología , Fosfoinositido Fosfolipasa C , Hidrolasas Diéster Fosfóricas/efectos de los fármacos , Transducción de Señal/efectos de los fármacos , Solubilidad , Linfocitos T/metabolismo , Células Tumorales CultivadasRESUMEN
In chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) the Philadelphia translocation results in the production of a novel 210 kDa bcr-abl fusion protein which shows increased tyrosine protein kinase activity in comparison with its normal 145 kDa c-abl counterpart. Using an immunoblotting method and antiphosphotyrosine antibody, we have identified the tyrosine protein kinase substrates present in intact cells from two Philadelphia-positive CGL derived cell lines (K562 and BV173) and compared these with the substrates present in a Philadelphia-negative myeloid cell line (HL60). We have demonstrated an increased number of substrates, particularly of low (less than 110 kDa) molecular weight in the K562 or BV173 cells compared with the HL60 cells. There is virtual identity of the substrates present in the two CGL-derived lines. This work supports the hypothesis that the functional changes present in the bcr-abl 210 kDa protein of CGL results in altered tyrosine phosphorylation of intracellular proteins and that this is of importance in the pathogenesis of CGL.
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Leucemia Mieloide/metabolismo , Proteínas de Neoplasias/metabolismo , Fosfoproteínas/metabolismo , Proteínas Tirosina Quinasas/metabolismo , Humanos , Técnicas de Inmunoadsorción , Peso Molecular , Cromosoma Filadelfia , Fosfotirosina , Células Tumorales Cultivadas , Tirosina/análogos & derivados , Tirosina/metabolismoRESUMEN
Alpha-interferon (IFN) is effective in the treatment of a proportion of patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL). B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and multiple myeloma (MM). One of the proteins induced by IFN is the enzyme 2'-5' oligoadenylate synthetase (2-5 AS). Peripheral blood or bone marrow samples treated with IFN in vitro, or from patients treated with IFN were studied for expression of the different 2-5 AS mRNA transcripts. A total of four normal individuals and 31 patients (nine HCL, five CLL, six MM, nine acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and two T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) have been investigated. In normal peripheral blood lymphocytes, only the 1.8 kb transcript was induced with IFN in vitro. In HCL, CLL, and MM all four transcript sizes were induced by IFN in vivo and in vitro. The 1.6 and 1.8 kb forms were equally and predominantly expressed in HCL and B-CLL. On the other hand, the 1.8 kb transcript was predominantly expressed in MM and this increased expression was statistically significant. In acute leukemia, the majority of samples expressed all four transcripts equally but four of eleven samples expressed only the 1.8 kb transcript. These results suggest that the pattern of induction of specific 2-5 AS mRNA transcripts may be related to the underlying disease. Whether these different patterns of 2-5 AS induction have implications for response to IFN treatment, remains to be determined.
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2',5'-Oligoadenilato Sintetasa/genética , Interferón Tipo I/farmacología , Leucemia Linfoide/enzimología , Leucemia Mieloide/enzimología , Inducción Enzimática/efectos de los fármacos , Expresión Génica/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Leucemia Linfoide/genética , Leucemia Mieloide/genética , Linfocitos/fisiología , Peso Molecular , Mieloma Múltiple/enzimología , Mieloma Múltiple/genética , ARN Mensajero/genética , ARN Neoplásico/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes , Transcripción GenéticaRESUMEN
Kinases which phosphorylate proteins on tyrosine residues are of importance in the control of both normal and malignant cell proliferation. The receptors for a number of growth factors have intracellular domains with tyrosine protein kinase activity and several viral oncogenes code for tyrosine protein kinases. An abnormal tyrosine protein kinase has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic granulocytic leukemia. Using an immunoblot method and an antiphosphotyrosine antibody, we have detected substrates of tyrosine protein kinases in fresh human leukemia cells and normal blood and bone marrow cells. These substrates were present in all types of cells examined. Cells from patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia contain prominent phosphotyrosine-containing protein bands with molecular weights in excess of 95 kDa. By contrast, chronic granulocytic leukemia cells, as well as normal bone marrow cells, lymphocytes, and monocytes, contain predominantly low molecular weight (less than 95 kDa) tyrosine kinase substrates. When lymphocytes were stimulated to enter cell cycle, however, high molecular weight substrates of similar molecular weights to those detected in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia became prominent. The implications of these findings in the control of normal and malignant cell proliferation and differentiation are discussed.
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Leucemia/enzimología , Proteínas Tirosina Quinasas/metabolismo , Separación Celular , Humanos , Técnicas de Inmunoadsorción , Leucemia/sangre , Leucemia Linfoide/enzimología , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/enzimología , Linfocitos/efectos de los fármacos , Linfocitos/metabolismo , Fitohemaglutininas/farmacologíaRESUMEN
Interferon-alpha (IFN) induces the enzyme 2-5 oligoadenylate synthetase (2-5 AS) in cells from patients with hairy cell leukemia and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia and this is associated with a breakdown of certain species of cytokine messenger (m)RNA via the activation of a latent ribonuclease. We have studied the expression of the cytokines interleukin 1-beta (IL-1), interleukin 6 (IL-6), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF) as well as of the ribonuclease activator 2-5 AS in the presence and absence of IFN in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) blast cells from 26 patients. Before monocyte and T-cell depletion there was no expression of IL-1, IL-6 or GM-CSF, and only three of 13 patients studied expressed TNF mRNA. After cell depletion one or more cytokine was expressed in 31-62% of the 26 patients. Expression of one or more mRNA for IL-1, IL-6, GM-CSF and TNF after 18 h incubation was detected in 16 of 26 patients (63%) and this was particularly so in French-American-British (FAB) subtypes M4 and M5. Eight of nine patients with IL-6 mRNA expression and seven of 10 with IL-1 mRNA expression were in the FAB subtypes M4 and M5. Twenty-two of 26 patients showed induction of 2-5 AS mRNA in response to IFN in vitro. Exposure to IFN resulted in reduction of IL-1 mRNA in nine of 12 cases, of IL-6 mRNA in eight of nine, and GM-CSF mRNA in five of seven cases. TNF mRNA was unaffected by IFN despite 2-5 AS induction in 12 of 13 patients expressing this cytokine. In the presence of exogenous IFN, cells from six of seven patients studied showed inhibition of 3H-thymidine incorporation into DNA. DNA synthesis could also be abrogated in six of seven patients with anti-IL-1 monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) and in two of seven with anti-IL-6 MoAb. This inhibitory effect could be reversed in all patients when anti-IL-1 or anti-IL-6 was given in combination with their corresponding cytokine. These data suggest that IFN may exert a therapeutic effect in a proportion of AML patients by blocking IL-1 and IL-6 mediated growth, consequent on activation of the ribonuclease activator 2-5 AS.