APO-1 mediated apoptosis or proliferation in human chronic B lymphocytic leukemia: correlation with bcl-2 oncogene expression

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Title:	APO-1 mediated apoptosis or proliferation in human chronic B lymphocytic leukemia: correlation with bcl-2 oncogene expression
Creators Name:	Mapara, M.Y., Bargou, R.C., Zugck, C. ., Doehner, H., Ustaoglu, F., Jonker, R.R., Krammer, P.H. and Doerken, B.
Abstract:	We studied induction of apoptosis in several human malignant B cells from chronic lymphocytic leukemias (BCLL) by triggering the APO-1 antigen. The APO-1 antigen was found to be expressed on the surface of malignant B cells. In BCLL cells from most patients, APO-1 antigen expression increased following in vitro activation by Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) or interleukin-2 (IL-2). In certain cases of BCLL co-stimulation with SAC plus IL-2 resulted in a synergistic up-regulation of the APO-1 antigen on the cell surface and prepared BCLL cells for monoclonal antibody anti-APO-1 mediated apoptosis. Interestingly, bcl-2 mRNA expression decreased upon stimulation with SAC plus IL-2, whereas SAC or IL-2 alone did not affect the level of bcl-2 expression. Thus, in these BCLL cells induction of anti-APO-1-mediated apoptosis appeared to be correlated with bcl-2 mRNA down-regulation. One informative BCLL, however, with a similar pattern of APO-1-antigen expression, did not show SAC plus IL-2-dependent bcl-2 down-regulation. Surprisingly, these cells proliferated in response to anti-APO-1 only when cells were co-stimulated with SAC plus IL-2. Our data suggest that down-regulation of bcl-2 prepares BCLL cells for induction of APO-1-mediated apoptosis. In addition they demonstrate that triggering of the APO-1 antigen may also lead to the induction of proliferation in special cases of BCLL.
Keywords:	Apoptosis, APO-1, Bcl-2, B Cell Leukemia
Source:	European Journal of Immunology
ISSN:	0014-2980
Publisher:	Wiley
Volume:	23
Number:	3
Page Range:	702-708
Date:	March 1993
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1002/eji.1830230320
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