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The biosynthesis of myeloperoxidase in human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells was studied by pulse-chase and immunoprecipitation methods and separation of subcellular organelles using Percoll density gradient fractionation. These studies revealed that in control and monensin (1 microM) treated cells, more than 85% of the total immunoprecipitable radiolabeled myeloperoxidase was present predominantly in precursor form (Mr 91,000) and resided in lower density compartments after an initial 3-h labeling period. Using biochemical and ultrastructural techniques, the lower density regions of the gradient were found to contain elements of the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi complex. Following a 16-h chase period, about 70% of the radiolabeled myeloperoxidase in untreated cells was found predominantly in denser regions of the gradient and was present mainly in the form of the mature large subunit (Mr 63,000). These dense regions were shown to contain azurophilic granules by means of the distribution of beta-glucuronidase and myeloperoxidase activities and by electron microscopy. Processing of myeloperoxidase and its deposition into dense granules were blocked by monensin treatment. Following a 16-h chase period in the presence of monensin, approximately 80% of the radiolabeled myeloperoxidase continued to reside in lower density compartments and was predominantly in precursor (Mr 91,000) and intermediate (Mr 81,000 and 74,000) forms. Only about 10% of the radiolabeled myeloperoxidase was associated with dense azurophilic granules. Monensin treatment produced large, Golgi-derived vacuoles which were isolated using Percoll density centrifugation and identified by electron microscopy. These vacuoles were found to be essentially devoid of peroxidase activity and pulse-labeled, newly synthesized radiolabeled myeloperoxidase species. The effects of monensin on transport and processing were reversible after a 3-h exposure and 16-h chase period in the absence of monensin. Taken together, these data indicate that maturation of myeloperoxidase is closely linked to its deposition into dense azurophilic granules via a monensin-sensitive process(es). The lower density compartments within which immature myeloperoxidase species accumulate in the presence of monensin appear to be functionally related to or associated with Golgi or endoplasmic reticulum structures distinct from the large monensin-induced vacuoles.
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PMID:Biochemical and ultrastructural effects of monensin on the processing, intracellular transport, and packaging of myeloperoxidase into low and high density compartments of human leukemia (HL-60) cells. 282 13

The human myeloperoxidase (MPO) gene has recently been cloned in our laboratory. Southern blot hybridization of our MPO cDNA to DNA from a somatic cell hybrid clone panel revealed that the MPO cosegregated with human chromosome 17. In situ hybridization mapped the MPO gene to chromosome 17q22-24. Although this location is close to the translocation breakpoint which occurs in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), t(15;17)(q22;q21-22), Southern blot hybridization with different restriction-digested genomic DNA samples from four APL patients did not reveal MPO gene rearrangement. However, RNA dot-blot hybridization showed that APL patients with the translocation expressed high levels of MPO mRNA. This observation raises the possibility that the high levels of MPO gene expression in APL could be due to the arrest of leukemic cells at a specific stage of differentiation or a consequence of the translocation.
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PMID:The localization of the human myeloperoxidase gene is in close proximity to the translocation breakpoint in acute promyelocytic leukemia. 282 22

This study demonstrates that a differentiation-specific gene, the myeloperoxidase (MPO) gene, is translocated in a patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The MPO gene recently has been mapped to chromosome #17, close to the breakpoint involved in the t(15;17) commonly seen in APL. By in situ hybridization, we showed that this gene was translocated from chromosome #17 to #15 in an APL patient. Although the significance of this translocation remains unclear, MPO is known to be highly expressed in APL. The causal relationship between the high expression and translocation of this gene requires further investigation.
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PMID:The myeloperoxidase gene is translocated from chromosome 17 to 15 in a patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia. 282 62

The biosynthesis and processing of myeloperoxidase (MPO), a cationic enzyme present in the azurophilic granules of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), were studied in the human promyelocytic leukemia cell line, HL-60. HL-60 cells produce large quantities of enzymatically active MPO that has the same electrophoretic behavior as MPO isolated from normal PMNs. Mature MPO is a glycoprotein of approximately 150,000 molecular weight (mol wt) composed of two heavy-light protomers (alpha 2 beta 2) with subunits of 59,000 and 13,500 mol wt, respectively, under reducing conditions. The primary translation product of MPO messenger RNA (mRNA) isolated from HL-60 cells was a single polypeptide of mol wt 80,000. In HL-60 cells labeled with [35S]-methionine, the labeled MPO isolated by immunoprecipitation had a mol wt of 89,000. Treatment of this 89-kilodalton (kDa) species with endoglycosidase H produced a 79-kDa peptide, suggesting that the 89-kDa protein contained high-mannose side chains. The 89-kDa species had no detectable peroxidase activity. During chase experiments some of the 89-kDa peptide was processed to smaller species of mol wt 39,000, 59,000, and 13,500, although a fraction of the 89-kDa peptide remained unprocessed after a chase of 100 hours. In addition, a small amount of the 89-kDa peptide appeared in the medium without any of the processed smaller peptides. These studies suggest that the primary translation product in MPO biosynthesis is an 80-kDa peptide that undergoes cotranslational cleavage of the signal peptide and glycosylation to produce an 89-kDa pro-MPO, that pro-MPO is a single polypeptide containing the alpha and beta subunits of MPO and contains endoglycosidase H-susceptible high-mannose side chains, and that posttranslational modification of pro-MPO results in targeting to the lysosome and proteolytic maturation of pro-MPO to active enzyme. In light of the previous observation that MPO-deficient and normal PMNs contain an 89-kDa protein immunochemically related to MPO, these studies on MPO biosynthesis indirectly support the hypothesis that defective posttranslation processing by pro-MPO may underlie hereditary MPO deficiency.
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PMID:Myeloperoxidase biosynthesis by a human promyelocytic leukemia cell line: insight into myeloperoxidase deficiency. 300 33

Myeloperoxidase, stored in azurophil granules of neutrophils, is synthesized in promyelocytes as a larger molecular weight precursor, which is processed to yield a transient Mr 82 000 intermediate and mature polypeptides with molecular weights of 62 000 and 12 000. We have tried to define subcellular sites for processing using metabolic labelling of the promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 in combination with subcellular fractionation on a Percoll gradient. A reasonable separation was achieved between azurophil granules, Golgi elements and endoplasmic reticulum. The finding of almost exclusively fully processed myeloperoxidase in granules and a mixture of unprocessed and processed polypeptide in fractions enriched in Golgi elements suggests that processing occurred mainly in pregranular structures. Monensin, which exchanges protons for Na+, and the base chloroquine blocked processing probably by inhibition of transport through the Golgi apparatus. However, the lysosomotropic NH4+ cation did not inhibit processing or transport indicating that processing is not necessarily influenced by pH-dependent mechanisms. Results from digestion with endoglycosidase H, incubation with tunicamycin and metabolic labelling with [3H]mannose indicated that myeloperoxidase contained high mannose oligosaccharide side chains. Also [32P]phosphate incorporated into Mr 90 000 and Mr 62 000 myeloperoxidase was susceptible to endoglycosidase H indicating that oligosaccharide side chains are modified by phosphorylation as in lysosomal enzymes. Thus, even if myeloperoxidase contained mannose 6-phosphate residues, these may not necessarily be involved in directing transport to the azurophil granules.
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PMID:The processing and intracellular transport of myeloperoxidase. Modulation by lysosomotropic agents and monensin. 300 51

Eosinophils derived from HL-60 cells share many of the abnormalities of granule histochemistry and morphology frequently seen in eosinophils of patients with certain malignancies, especially those seen in acute myelomonocytic leukemia with abnormal eosinophils (FAB class M4eo). In order to understand the pathogenesis of these abnormalities, four enzymes, characteristic of the eosinophil, were studied in HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells at various stages of eosinophilic differentiation. Using biochemical and ultrahistochemical techniques, the following differences from normal eosinophil development were demonstrated. First, both myeloperoxidase and eosinophil peroxidase coexisted in the population of maturing HL-60 eosinophils. Second, the granules formed from the condensation of material in vacuoles which were derived from dilated segments of the endoplasmic reticulum; the role of the Golgi apparatus in processing of peroxidase appeared minimal. Third, low levels of lysophospholipase and arylsulfatase were present in the cells compared to normal eosinophils. Finally, crystallizations resembling precursor structures of Auer rods appeared in the granules of about 5% of the cells. These findings suggest that several disorders of the control of protein synthesis and processing exist in HL-60 eosinophils which may be responsible for the abnormal granule morphology and histochemistry.
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PMID:Synthesis of eosinophil-associated enzymes in HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells. 301 41

Myeloperoxidase is a major component of specialized lysosomes known as azurophil granules in polymorphonuclear leukocytes or neutrophils. The processing of myeloperoxidase in human HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells was studied by pulse-labeling cells in culture with [35S]methionine followed by immunoprecipitation and identification of myeloperoxidase polypeptides from cell fractions after various chase intervals. These studies revealed the presence of a previously unidentified intermediate with Mr 74,000 which kinetically followed the appearance of a larger Mr 81,000 intermediate. Using an in vitro lysosomal preparation the newly identified Mr 74,000 intermediate was directly converted within protected granules to mature forms of myeloperoxidase (Mr 63,000 and 60,000). This conversion occurred optimally at pH 7.5 and was not inhibited by lysosomotropic agents (chloroquine, NH4Cl) or protonophores (monensin, carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone). Furthermore, the uptake of radiolabeled amines indicated a neutral intragranular environment (pH 7.35-7.67) which remained unchanged in the presence and absence of 1 mM ATP or 2.5 microM carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone. We conclude that, in contrast to other lysosomal pathways, the final proteolytic cleavage of myeloperoxidase does not require an acidic environment.
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PMID:Processing of a newly identified intermediate of human myeloperoxidase in isolated granules occurs at neutral pH. 301 50

Previous studies on the fractionation of human neutrophil granules have identified two major populations: myeloperoxidase (MPO)-containing azurophil, or primary, granules and MPO-deficient specific, or secondary, granules. Peripheral blood neutrophils from individual donors were lysed in sucrose-free media by either hypotonic shock or nitrogen cavitation. Using a novel two-gradient Percoll density centrifugation system, the granule-rich postnuclear supernatant was rapidly (ten minutes) and reproducibly resolved into 13 granule fractions (L1 through L8 and H1 through H5). Granule flotation and recentrifugation experiments on both continuous, self-generated and multiple-step gradients using individual and mixed isolated fractions demonstrated that the banding patterns were isopycnic and nonartifactual. Isolated granules were intact based on the findings that biochemical latency of several granule enzymes was greater than 95%, and thin-sectioned electron micrographs demonstrated intact granule profiles. Biochemical analyses of the granule marker proteins MPO, beta-glucuronidase, lysozyme, and lactoferrin indicated that a number of the fractions were related to the major azurophil and specific granule populations. Lactoferrin was found in ten of 13 fractions (L1 through L8, H1 to H2), whereas MPO was found in every fraction. Consistent with these biochemical data, all fractions exhibited varying degrees of heterogeneity based on ultrastructural morphology and cytochemistry, including diaminobenzidine (DAB) reactivity for peroxidase and periodate-thiocarbohydrazide-silver proteinate (PA-TCH-SP) staining for complex glycoconjugates. A variable but significant percentage (23% to 70%) of the granules in fractions L1 through L8 and H1 and H2 showed DAB reactivity, while about 90% of the granules in fractions H3 through H5 were peroxidase positive. These results demonstrated that DAB-reactive granules spanned the entire range of granule size and density. Ultrastructural PA-TCH-SP staining of isolated granule fractions revealed patterns similar to those of granules in intact neutrophils at different stages of development. Granules from human acute promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60) exhibited a surprisingly low density compared with typical azurophil granules from normal, mature neutrophils. The data suggest that both functional and maturational differences contribute to granule heterogeneity, and provide a new practical and conceptual framework for further defining the phenomenon of neutrophil granule heterogeneity.
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PMID:High resolution of heterogeneity among human neutrophil granules: physical, biochemical, and ultrastructural properties of isolated fractions. 301 86

Myeloperoxidase synthesis during induction of differentiation of human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) was studied. Differentiation was characterized by morphological changes, arrest of cell proliferation, development of cell adherence, and increased secretion of lysozyme. The cellular myeloperoxidase activity decreased early during induction of differentiation by TPA. Pulse-labeling experiments indicated that the rate of myeloperoxidase synthesis decreased to an undetectable level in cells exposed to TPA for 22 h. The relative amounts of myeloperoxidase mRNA in TPA-treated and untreated cells were determined by measuring translatable mRNA activity in a reticulocyte lysate system. Reduction in the myeloperoxidase mRNA level was observed as early as after 3 h treatment with TPA, and no myeloperoxidase mRNA was detected after 24 h. Time course experiments indicated that the time required for 50% reduction of myeloperoxidase mRNA in TPA-treated cells was approximately 5 h. These results suggest that TPA induces decrease of myeloperoxidase activity in HL-60 cells at a pretranslational level.
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PMID:Regulation of myeloperoxidase gene expression by the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate in human leukemia HL-60 cells. 302 7

Partial amino acid sequence of human myeloperoxidase was determined, and a 41-base oligonucleotide containing deoxyinosines at four positions was chemically synthesized. By using the oligonucleotide as a probe, cDNA clones for human myeloperoxidase were isolated from a cDNA library constructed with mRNA from human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells. One of the clones containing a 2.6-kilobase insert was subjected to nucleotide sequence analysis. The sequence was found to contain an open reading frame, 2,235 nucleotides coding for a protein of 745 amino acids with a calculated Mr of 83,868. The heavy chain of myeloperoxidase, consisting of 467 amino acids, was located on the COOH terminus half of the protein. The RNA specified by the cDNA was prepared using SP6 RNA polymerase and translated in rabbit reticulocyte lysates, and the product was identified as human myeloperoxidase by immunoprecipitation with rabbit anti-human myeloperoxidase antibody. By Northern hybridization analysis of RNA from leukemic cells, it was shown that myeloperoxidase mRNA is abundantly expressed in human promyelocytic HL-60 and mouse myeloid leukemia NFS-60 cells. Furthermore, the results of Southern hybridization analysis of human genomic DNA suggest that there are one or two genes for myeloperoxidase in the human haploid genome.
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PMID:Molecular cloning and characterization of cDNA for human myeloperoxidase. 302 27


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