IL-6 undergoes transition from in vitro autocrine growth factor to in vivo growth inhibitor of B lymphoma cells

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dae-Ho Cho ◽  
Hyung-Sik Kang ◽  
Jung-Jae Ma ◽  
Sung-Sook Kim ◽  
Hwan-Mook Kim ◽  
...  
1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Dae-Ho Cho ◽  
Hyung-Sik Kang ◽  
Jung-Jae Ma ◽  
Sung-Sook Kim ◽  
Hwan-Mook Kim ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 1135-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin U. Lundin ◽  
Valentina Screpanti ◽  
Hilde Omholt ◽  
Peter O. Hofgaard ◽  
Hideo Yagita ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosana B. Michel ◽  
Philip M. Andrews ◽  
Adriane V. Rosario ◽  
David M. Goldenberg ◽  
M. Jules Mattes

Blood ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 889-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Kobayashi ◽  
M Teramura ◽  
I Sugawara ◽  
K Oshimi ◽  
H Mizoguchi

Abstract The cytokine interleukin-11 (IL-11) promotes normal human megakaryocytopoiesis in vitro. However, its role in abnormal megakaryocytopoiesis is not well known. Accordingly, we studied its effects on human megakaryoblastic cell lines CMK and Meg-J. IL-11 stimulated the proliferation of CMK and Meg-J in a dose-dependent manner with maximal growth being achieved at the concentration of 50 and 500 ng/mL, respectively. The growth of the cells was inhibited by anti-IL-11 antibody and IL-11 antisense oligonucleotides. IL-11 transcripts were detected in these two cell lines using a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay. These findings indicate that IL-11 might be an autocrine growth factor for megakaryoblastic cells. IL-11 transcripts also existed in other leukemia cell lines: HL- 60, U937, and K562. However, the growth of these cells was not stimulated by IL-11, and was not inhibited by IL-11 antisense oligonucleotides. These results suggested that IL-11 might regulate malignant cells of the megakaryocytic lineage, in part by an autocrine loop.


1996 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy S. Vincent ◽  
Debra J. Hazen-Martin ◽  
A.Julian Garvin

Blood ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 1904-1913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizwan Masood ◽  
Jie Cai ◽  
Tong Zheng ◽  
D. Lynne Smith ◽  
David R. Hinton ◽  
...  

Abstract Angiogenesis is required for the progression of tumors from a benign to a malignant phenotype and for metastasis. Malignant tumor cells secrete factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which bind to their cognate receptors on endothelial cells to induce angiogenesis. Here it is shown that several tumor types express VEGF receptors (VEGFRs) and that inhibition of VEGF (VEGF antisense oligonucleotide AS-3) or VEGFRs (neutralizing antibodies) inhibited the proliferation of these cell lines in vitro. Furthermore, this effect was abrogated by exogenous VEGF. Thus, VEGF is an autocrine growth factor for tumor cell lines that express VEGFRs. A modified form of VEGF AS-3 (AS-3m), in which flanking 4 nucleotides were substituted with 2-O-methylnucleosides (mixed backbone oligonucleotides), retained specificity and was active when given orally or systemically in vitro and in murine tumor models. In VEGFR-2–expressing tumors, VEGF inhibition may have dual functions: direct inhibition of tumor cell growth and inhibition of angiogenesis.


1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 769-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Heilig ◽  
M. Mapara ◽  
R. Bargou ◽  
C. Fiehn ◽  
B. Dörken

Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (12) ◽  
pp. 3900-3908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josée Golay ◽  
Luisella Zaffaroni ◽  
Thomas Vaccari ◽  
Manuela Lazzari ◽  
Gian-Maria Borleri ◽  
...  

Abstract The chimeric anti-CD20 MAb rituximab has recently become a treatment of choice for low-grade or follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (FL) with a response rate of about 50%. In this report, we have investigated the mechanism of action of rituximab on 4 FL and 1 Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) cell lines, 3 fresh FL samples and normal B cells in vitro. Rituximab efficiently blocks the proliferation of normal B cells, but not that of the lymphoma lines. We did not detect significant apoptosis of the cell lines in response to rituximab alone. All cell lines were targets of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). On the other hand, human complement-mediated lysis was highly variable between cell lines, ranging from 100% lysis to complete resistance. Investigation of the role of the complement inhibitors CD35, CD46, CD55, and CD59 showed that CD55, and to a lesser extent CD59, are important regulators of complement-mediated cytotoxicity (CDC) in FL cell lines as well as in fresh cases of FL: Blocking CD55 and/or CD59 function with specific antibodies significantly increased CDC in FL cells. We conclude that CDC and ADCC are major mechanisms of action of rituximab on B-cell lymphomas and that a heterogeneous susceptibility of different lymphoma cells to complement may be at least in part responsible for the heterogeneity of the response of different patients to rituximab in vivo. Furthermore, we suggest that the relative levels of CD55 and CD59 may become useful markers to predict the clinical response.


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