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Skålhegg BS, Johansen AK, Levy FO, Andersson KB, Aandahl EM, Blomhoff HK, Hansson V, Taskén K. Isozymes of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinases (PKA) in human lymphoid cell lines: levels of endogenous cAMP influence levels of PKA subunits and growth in lymphoid cell lines. J Cell Physiol 1998; 177:85-93. [PMID: 9731748 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4652(199810)177:1<85::aid-jcp9>3.0.co;2-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Activation of the cAMP signaling pathway in lymphoid cells is known to inhibit cell proliferation of T and B cells as well as cytotoxicity of natural killer (NK) cells. In order to find suitable model systems to study cAMP-mediated processes, we have examined the expression of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), endogenous levels of cAMP, and cell proliferation in eight cell lines of B lineage origin, four cell lines of T lineage origin, and normal human B and T cells. We demonstrated that the expression of mRNA and protein for one of the regulatory (R) subunits of PKA (RIalpha) was present in all the cells investigated, in contrast to the other R subunits (RIbeta, RIIalpha, and RIIbeta). Furthermore, three T cell lines and one B cell line expressed only RIalpha and C, implying these cells to contain solely PKA type I. Moreover, for the RI subunit, we observed an apparent reciprocal relationship between levels of mRNA and protein. Generally, RIalpha protein was low in cell lines where mRNA was elevated and vice versa. This was not the case for the RII subunits, where high levels of mRNA were associated with elevated levels of protein. Interestingly, we demonstrated an inverse correlation between levels of endogenous cAMP and cell growth as determined by [3H]-thymidine incorporation and cell-doubling rate (P < 0.05). Taken together, our results demonstrate great differences in PKA isozyme composition, which should be taken into consideration when using lymphoid cell lines as model system for cAMP/PKA effects in normal lymphocytes.
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Affiliation(s)
- B S Skålhegg
- Institute of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Stock R, Naor D. Induction of an autoimmune response against syngeneic lymphoma cells by immunogenic 64-kDa protein isolated from normal blast cells of BALB/c mice. Cancer Immunol Immunother 1995; 40:48-56. [PMID: 7828167 PMCID: PMC11037602 DOI: 10.1007/bf01517235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/1994] [Accepted: 09/06/1994] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Immunogenic proteins with identical molecular mass (64 kDa) were purified from a syngeneic spontaneous T cell leukaemia line, designated LB3, and lymphoblast extracts both derived from BALB/c mice. The 64-kDa protein was purified by a sequence of biochemical steps from cell extracts containing protease inhibitors. The following steps were included in the purification pathway: Sephadex G-100 gel filtration, anion-exchange chromatography, concanavalin A (ConA) affinity chromatography, and preparative gel electrophoresis. The immunogenic fraction isolated in each step was subjected to the next step along the purification pathway. The immunogenicity of the separated fractions was measured by a lymph-node proliferation assay, which is indicative of delayed-type hypersensitivity. The final 64-kDa isolated protein of blast cells induced in BALB/c mice an efficient lymph-node proliferation response, which was detected in the regional lymph node after challenge with the final isolated protein of LB3 cells and vice versa. In addition to their identical molecular mass, both proteins were eluted from an anion-exchange column with the same NaCl concentration (0.57 M) and both expressed affinity to the ConA-Sepharose column, suggesting that they are glycosylated. The specificity of the immunological responses induced or elicited with the various isolated proteins was also shown. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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- R Stock
- Lautenberg Centre for General und Tumour Immunology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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The regulation of c-myc protein, product of c-myc/genes, was studied in four glioma cell lines by Northern blot, pulse-chase dot blot, immunoblot and immunoprecipitation analyses. Northern blot analysis revealed no overexpression of c-myc transcript, and pulse-chase dot blot analysis showed normal turnover rate of c-myc transcript, suggestive of no evidence of aberrant regulation of c-myc at post-transcriptional level. The synthesis levels of c-myc protein were shown by immunoprecipitation and closely associated with the c-myc transcript levels demonstrated by Northern blot, suggestive of no evidence of aberrant translational control of c-myc, whereas they were dissociated from the accumulation levels of c-myc protein shown by immunoblot, suggestive of an evidence of aberrant regulation of c-myc at post-translational level. The mean (+/- standard deviation) half-lives of c-myc protein in four glioma cell lines were calculated from the pulse-chase immunoprecipitation analysis, and being 98 +/- 8 to 143 +/- 11 min, were about four- to sixfold longer than normal. In surgical specimens, the immunostain of c-myc protein was not found in normal astrocytes but localized heterogenously in nuclei of reactive astrocytes and glioma cells, and increased in stained cell number in proportion to malignancy. Although this study was limited to four glioma cell lines, it suggests that the c-myc protein in glioma cells may be accumulated due to its prolonged half-life contributing to an uncontrolled proliferation.
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- H Shindo
- Department of Neurosurgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Steady state c-myc mRNA levels determined by Northern blot analysis were examined in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) of both high (n = 29) and low malignancy (n = 18), and in non-specific chronic lymphadenitis (n = 6). High grade NHL, classified according to the updated Kiel classification, revealed significantly larger amounts of c-myc mRNA compared with low grade NHL and lymphadenitis. mRNA levels in non-specific lymphadenitis were lower than in low grade NHL, but the differences were not statistically significant. No correlation between c-myc mRNA levels and the immunologic phenotype was discernible. Growth fractions of the NHL were determined by immunostaining with the monoclonal antibody Ki-67. Significant correlations between the percentages of Ki-67-positive cells, as well as the amounts of c-myc mRNA, and classification into high or low grade NHL were found. However, the percentage of Ki-67 positive cells and c-myc mRNA levels in individual cases and in the various histologic entities of NHL did not correlate. Our results indicate the overexpression of the c-myc gene in NHL, and a highly significant correlation of steady state c-myc mRNA levels with the prognosis-related histomorphologic Kiel classification of NHL into different subgroups of low and high grade malignancy.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, Neoplasm/analysis
- Biomarkers, Tumor/analysis
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Division
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, myc
- Humans
- Ki-67 Antigen
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/metabolism
- Lymphadenitis/metabolism
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/genetics
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/metabolism
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/pathology
- Nuclear Proteins/analysis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/biosynthesis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Neoplasm/biosynthesis
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- C Fellbaum
- Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, School of Medicine, Federal Republic of Germany
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Computer-assisted image analysis was used to demonstrate in exponentially proliferating human tumor cells the uneven postmitotic apportionment of several oncogene-encoded proteins (ras p21; erbB-2 p185; fos p55; myc p62). This observation may provide the explanation for the high degree of heterogeneity of postmitotic cells and the asynchrony in cell cycle traverse of cultured cells.
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- B Czerniak
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10467
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Herz F, Czerniak B, Deitch D, Wersto RP, Simmons DA, Koss LG. Protein expression in relation to the cell cycle of exponentially growing human prostatic epithelial cells. Cell Prolif 1991; 24:321-30. [PMID: 2039807 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.1991.tb01160.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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This report concerns the study of the relationship between protein expression and the cell cycle in exponentially proliferating benign and malignant human prostate epithelial cells in short-term cultures. Multiparameter flow cytometric measurements were performed to correlate the expression of prostate-specific acid phosphatase, epithelial membrane antigen and epitectin with cell cycle progression. The expression of the three proteins was heterogeneous in G1 cells. The early post-mitotic cells exhibited the lowest levels when compared with late G1 cells, wherein the expression was many times greater. There was no further increase as the cells progressed through S and G2 + M. These findings, corroborating prior observations in other systems, suggest the possibility that the levels of the proteins studied increase during the G1 phase of the cell cycle and drop during or immediately after cytokinesis. As an alternate explanation, the heterogeneity of protein expression characteristic of G1 cells may be due, at least in part, to an asymmetric apportionment of cell constituents at mitosis.
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- F Herz
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467-2401
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Shindo H, Tani E, Kochi N, Kaba K, Matsumoto T, Miyaji K, Yamamoto Y, Furuyama J. Interspecies comparison of c-myc gene in human and rat glioma cell lines. Acta Neuropathol 1991; 81:382-7. [PMID: 2028742 DOI: 10.1007/bf00293458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Interspecies difference in expression of the c-myc gene between two human and three rat glioma cell lines was studied with use of a human c-myc probe. The c-myc deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fragments detected at higher stringency in Southern blotting, showed a difference in size and gene copy number between human and rat glioma cells. The c-myc transcript was detected at both higher and lower stringencies in Northern blotting in human glioma cells, whereas it was demonstrated only at lower stringency in rat glioma cells, and the c-myc transcript was seen in cytoplasms of both glioma cells by in situ hybridization. The c-myc protein, if examined with anti-human c-myc protein monoclonal antibody, was observed as two separate components in Western blotting and localized immunocytochemically in nuclei in human glioma cells, whereas it was detected as three separate forms in Western blotting and shown in both nuclei and cytoplasm in rat glioma cells. The above discrepancy in manifestation of c-myc DNA fragments, transcript and protein could be due to the difference in nucleotide sequence of c-myc gene between human and rat glioma cells.
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- H Shindo
- Department of Neurosurgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Erikstein BK, Schwarze P, Blomhoff HK, Funderud S, Stokke T, Smeland EB. Use of size fractionation of in vitro-activated human B lymphocytes for studies of cell cycle-dependent growth regulation. Scand J Immunol 1991; 33:51-60. [PMID: 1899949 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.1991.tb02491.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Cell cycle progression of in vitro-stimulated human B lymphocytes occurs asynchronously. In order to allow detailed studies of growth control in G1, B cells were stimulated with anti-mu and low molecular weight B-cell growth factor (LMW BCGF) for 50 h and subsequently separated into nine fractions of cells by means of centrifugal elutriation. As judged by volume profiles, activation antigen expression and DNA content, the cells in fractions 1-4 were in early to mid-G1, while fractions 5-7 mainly contained cells in late G1, and fractions 8-9 contained cells mainly in S and G2. Cells in fractions 5-7 had passed the commitment point, as demonstrated by a high spontaneous incorporation of [3H]thymidine when recultured in medium alone. Moreover, S-phase entry of these cells was largely unaffected by exogenous growth-promoting or growth-inhibitory signals. Cells in early (fractions 1-2) and intermediate fractions (fractions 3-4) showed a negligible spontaneous [3H]thymidine incorporation, but a significant proportion of these cells progressed to S phase upon restimulation. Moreover, while IL-4 or the anti-CD40 MoAb G28-5 potently stimulated cells in early and intermediate fractions, the responsiveness of LMW BCGF alone was obtained just prior to the commitment point.
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- B K Erikstein
- Department of Tissue Culture, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo
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Pallavicini MG, Rosette C, Reitsma M, Deteresa PS, Gray JW. Relationship of c-myc gene copy number and gene expression: cellular effects of elevated c-myc protein. J Cell Physiol 1990; 143:372-80. [PMID: 2185254 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041430223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The relationship between gene copy number and expression and cellular consequences of elevated levels of c-myc protein has been investigated using recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cell lines transfected with DNA coding for the murine c-myc gene. HC-8 and LC-5 recombinant cells carry approximately 800 and 50 copies of c-myc sequences, respectively, under control of an inducible heat shock promoter. Multivariate flow cytometric analysis and clonogenic assays were used to measure the relationship among c-myc expression, rate of DNA synthesis, and cell survival. Following heat exposure, maximally induced HC-8 cells produced approximately tenfold more c-myc protein than heated LC-5 cells, suggesting a close relationship between gene copy number and level of expression. However, considerable heterogeneity in the level and time of c-myc expression was observed following heat induction, even though the amounts of genomic c-myc were relatively constant. Heterogeneity in gene expression was not attributable to variation in heat induction methodologies and/or cell cycle phase distributions. The presence of high levels of recombinant c-myc protein was associated with a decreased rate of bromodeoxyuridine incorporation into DNA. High levels of c-myc protein in HC-8 cells were inversely correlated with cell survival postheating, suggesting that high levels of c-myc protein are incompatible with cell survival.
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- M G Pallavicini
- Biomedical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
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Funderud S, Erikstein B, Asheim HC, Nustad K, Stokke T, Blomhoff HK, Holte H, Smeland EB. Functional properties of CD19+ B lymphocytes positively selected from buffy coats by immunomagnetic separation. Eur J Immunol 1990; 20:201-6. [PMID: 1689662 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830200129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Here we report that human B lymphocytes can be positively selected directly from buffy coats applying the anti-CD19 antibody AB1 coupled to magnetic beads. This isolation protocol is highly efficient and the isolated cell population is of very high purity and viability. As judged by cell cycle analysis and various parameters for cell activation, the cells are still in a resting state after isolation. Furthermore, different functional assays have shown that the isolation procedure does not interfere with either activation or proliferation/differentiation of CD19 selected cells as compared to negatively isolated cells. As a consequence of cross-linking during the isolation process, the CD19 antigen is temporarily down-regulated as measured by AB1 binding. Despite this decreased expression, monoclonal antibodies to the CD19 antigen nevertheless inhibited anti-mu plus B cell growth factor induced B cell activation as reported also for negatively isolated cells. Taken together, the presented data strongly suggest that B cells isolated through the CD19 antigen can be used in critical functional assays.
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- S Funderud
- Laboratory for Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo
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Rosette CD, DeTeresa PS, Pallavicini MG. Simultaneous flow cytometric detection of cellular c-myc protein, incorporated bromodeoxyuridine, and DNA. Cytometry 1990; 11:547-51. [PMID: 2111761 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.990110414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We describe a multivariate flow cytometric technique for simultaneous analysis of specific nuclear protein, bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) incorporated into DNA and DNA content in single cells in suspension. The procedure involves fixation of BrdUrd-exposed cells with paraformaldehyde, heat denaturation of cellular DNA, followed by sequential immunochemical reactions to label incorporated BrdUrd and nuclear protein, and finally staining of total DNA with propidium iodide. The cells are analyzed flow cytometrically and multivariate data acquired in list mode to facilitate analyses of heterogeneous subpopulations. We applied this technique to measure c-myc protein, incorporated BrdUrd, and DNA content in subpopulations present in a recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line carrying approximately 800 copies of murine c-myc sequences under control of an inducible heat shock promoter.
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- C D Rosette
- Biomedical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
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