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Query: EC:2.7.7.49 (reverse transcriptase)
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Several mutations are associated with resistance to zidovudine (3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine, AZT) in cultured human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates. Little is known as to what extent drug resistance occurs in vivo and whether its development within the CNS differs from that in peripheral blood. We therefore performed comparative nucleotide sequence analysis of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) gene in proviral DNA obtained from blood and CSF of three patients, all of whom had progressed to AIDS under long-term zidovudine treatment. Six to 11 individual proviral copies per patient and compartment were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-mediated direct sequencing. In all samples, mutations associated with zidovudine resistance could be identified. They occurred in multiple HIV-1 copies in both blood and CSF, indicating that molecular determinants of resistance are reflected in most individual proviruses in vivo. Comparable positions and frequencies of mutations in isolates derived from both compartments do not argue for independent development of zidovudine resistance in CSF.
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PMID:In vivo comparison of zidovudine resistance mutations in blood and CSF of HIV-1-infected patients. 750 98

Human tumors can constitutively express cytokines and growth factors, but the extent of this expression has not been investigated. Using 44 different probes to cytokines, growth factors, and their receptors, we tested 21 melanoma and 5 melanocyte cultures for RNA transcript expression by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. With 30 amplification cycles, expression of the cytokines interleukin (IL)-1 beta, IL-6, leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), IL-7, gro alpha, IL-8 and the p35 chain of IL-12 was detected in more than 60% of melanomas. Concomitant receptors for IL-6 and IL-7 were also detected. IL-1 alpha, IL-5, Rantes, IL-10, interferon (IFN)-beta, tumor-necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, G-colony-stimulating factor (CSF) and GM-CSF were expressed at lower levels. Melanocytes showed greatly reduced cytokine RNA transcripts, and only gro alpha was consistently detected. No expression of IL-2, IL-3, IL-4, IL-9, the p40 chain of IL-12, IFN-alpha or IFN-gamma RNA transcripts was detected in melanomas or melanocytes. The growth factors expressed by melanomas and, after further signal amplification, by melanocytes were transforming growth factor (TGF)-alpha, epidermal growth factor (EGF), TGF-beta, endothelial-cell growth factor (ECGF), basic-fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), nerve growth factor (NGF) and steel. The receptors EGFR, FGFR, NGFRp70 and c-kit were also expressed by melanomas and melanocytes. These results point to new possible autocrine and paracrine pathways in melanoma biology.
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PMID:Expression of cytokine/growth factors and their receptors in human melanoma and melanocytes. 750 78

In human long-term marrow cultures granulomonopoiesis is maintained for several weeks. Studies on granulomonocytic progenitors (CFU-GM) and their progeny have shown that survival, proliferation, differentiation and maturation of these cells are controlled by a set of glycoproteins, the colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) and the Steel factor. We have studied the expression of these factors using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 17 adherent layers of normal bone marrow at 3, 5 or 7 weeks of culture. We have taken the 5637 bladder carcinoma cell line as a control for expression of GM-CSF, M-CSF, G-CSF and Steel factor, and PHA-activated T lymphocytes as a control for expression of multi-CSF (interleukin 3, IL-3). We have found that GM-CSF was expressed in the 17 adherent layers without induction by interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta). M-CSF was also detected in all cases, but in two early-stage (week 3 and week 5) cultures only after stimulation by IL-1 beta. G-CSF was detected in only 11 cases (three without IL-1 beta, and eight after addition of IL-1 beta). Steel factor was detected in 14 cases (ten without IL-1 beta, and four after addition of IL-1 beta). IL-3 was not detected even by means of nested RT-PCR. These data indicate in six late-stage (week 5 or week 7) cultures G-CSF messenger concentrations 10(3)-fold less than in 5637 control cells (for an identical amount of total cellular RNA). A similar conclusion may be drawn for Steel factor in three late-stage cultures. For IL-3 our negative results indicate a messenger concentration 10(5)-fold less than in activated T lymphocytes. These results suggest a crucial role for GM-CSF and M-CSF in the maintenance of granulomonopoiesis in human long-term cultures. The role of G-CSF and Steel factor may be more marginal. Eventually IL-2 may not be involved in the regulatory process.
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PMID:The detection of colony-stimulating factors and steel factor in adherent layers of human long-term marrow cultures using reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. 751 Mar 57

Reducing agents such as glutathione (GSH), glutathione ester (GSE), and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) have been shown to suppress the induction of HIV expression in chronically infected cells stimulated by cytokines. We present data which show the effects of the organic thiophosphate WR-151327 on the expression of latent HIV in U1 cells. The chronically infected promonocytic cell line U1 constitutively expresses low levels of HIV that can be increased by 13-phorbol 12-myristate acetate (PMA), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and granulocyte/monocyte colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). WR-151327 suppressed, in dose-dependent fashion, the reverse transcriptase (RT) activity induced by TNF-alpha, GM-CSF, and PMA. The maximal decrease in RT activity was 70, 80, and 50%, respectively. Pretreatment with WR-151327 also suppressed the induction of total HIV protein synthesis, as shown by Western blot analysis. In addition, WR-151327 suppressed HIV-LTR-CAT activity in transfected human rhabdomyosarcoma cells (RD). Suppression of HIV expression by WR-151327 was observed in the absence of a cytotoxic or cytostatic effect. Incubation of WR-151327 with human recombinant TNF-alpha for 6 hr at 37 degrees C did not alter the capacity of TNF-alpha to induce the expression of HIV. Our observations further support the hypothesis that reducing agents are important in the control of HIV replication and that the clinical evaluation of WR-151327 may be indicated.
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PMID:Organic thiophosphate WR-151327 suppresses expression of HIV in chronically infected cells. 752 Nov 93

Hematopoietic progenitors obtained from the bone marrow of healthy adults fail to undergo clonogenic maturation in vitro if a source of hematopoietic growth factors is not included in the culture dishes. In contrast, a fraction of similarly purified progenitors obtained from umbilical cord blood undergo clonogenic maturation even in the absence of added growth factors. We postulated that production of hematopoietic growth factors within the culture dishes containing the progenitors of umbilical cord blood origin might be responsible. We postulated further, that this production might be by non-progenitor cells co-plated along with the progenitors, or alternatively by CD34+ cells themselves, or by cells clonally derived from CD34+ cells. To test these possibilities we first assessed the effect of including in the cultures neutralizing antibody directed against various growth factors. Inclusion of anti-granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and anti-interleukin-3 (IL-3) (but not anti-IL-2) significantly reduced the growth factor independence of cord blood progenitors (P < .005 and P < .01). Inclusion of both anti-GM-CSF and anti-IL-3 almost completely ablated the spontaneous colony growth (P < .001). Inclusion of IL-10 also reduced, in a concentration-dependent fashion, the spontaneous generation of umbilical cord blood-derived colonies. Transcripts for GM-CSF and IL-3 were detected, by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), in the CD34+ cells from cord blood and from adult marrow. When plated without added growth factors, however, the CD34+ cells of adult marrow origin failed to produce colonies, whereas 6% of cord blood CD34+ cells similarly cultured did so. When these growth factor independent colonies were plucked from culture, transcripts for GM-CSF and IL-3 were identified in all. We conclude that production of GM-CSF and IL-3 occurs within culture dishes containing hematopoietic progenitors of umbilical cord origin, and that this explains some of their apparently unique features of in vitro growth.
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PMID:Possible mechanisms accounting for the growth factor independence of hematopoietic progenitors from umbilical cord blood. 752 47

At the time of human embryo implantation, large numbers of maternal CD56brightCD16- NK cells appear in the uterus. These unusual lymphocytes are believed to control the migration and differentiation of highly invasive fetally derived trophoblast cells, which infiltrate into the maternal uterus to remodel the spiral arteries during the first trimester. One possible mechanism of control is by cytokine production. In this study, highly purified (> 99%) populations of first trimester decidual CD56brightCD16- NK cells and CD3+ T lymphocytes were obtained by using a FACS. These cells were examined by reverse transcriptase PCR for their expression of mRNAs for the following cytokines: granulocyte-macrophage (GM)-CSF, CSF-1, TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, TGF-beta 1, leukemia-inhibitory factor (LIF), and IL-2. Then, the expression was compared with that of resting PBL. The identity of the PCR products was verified by Southern blotting and hybridization with cytokine-specific probes. Both decidual CD56brightCD16- NK cells and CD3+ T cells were found to express mRNA for CSF-1, TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma TGF-beta 1, and LIF, but GM-CSF mRNA was detected only in CD56bright NK cells. IL-2 mRNA was detected in only some decidual T cell samples, and then only after at least two rounds of amplification. In contrast, peripheral blood CD56brightCD16- NK cells, CD56dimCD16+ NK cells, and CD3+ T cells expressed mRNA only for TNF-alpha and TGF-beta 1, but not for GM-CSF, CSF-1, IFN-gamma, LIF, or IL-2. These results suggest that both decidual NK cells and decidual T cells produce a variety of cytokines that may be involved in the control of trophoblast migration and differentiation during pregnancy.
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PMID:Screening for cytokine messenger ribonucleic acids in purified human decidual lymphocyte populations by the reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. 752 3

The effects of cysteamine (2-aminoethanethiol, MEA) and its disulfide, cystamine, on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) expression in chronically infected promonocytic cells (U1), T cell line (ACH-2), and peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) were investigated. U1 and ACH-2 cells constitutively express low levels of virus, which is increased by the addition of tumor necrosis factor (TNF-alpha), interleukin 6 (IL-6), granulocyte-macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and other inducers. Cystamine, in noncytotoxic doses, suppressed in a concentration-dependent fashion the induction of HIV-1 expression mediated by TNF-alpha, IL-6, GM-CSF, and monokine-enriched monocyte culture supernatants in both U1 and ACH-2 cells as determined by HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) activity. Similarly, HIV-1 expression was substantially reduced in the cystamine-treated primary MDM cultures compared with the untreated control cultures. The addition of cystamine into HIV-1 chronically infected MDM (12 days after infection was established) also suppressed 80-90% of RT activity in comparison to the untreated controls. HIV-1 (Bal) infected MDM cultures (without cystamine treatment) demonstrated giant syncytium formation, whereas cystamine-treated cultures lacked the giant syncytia induced by HIV-1 infection. Cystamine also inhibited LPS-induced TNF production in MDM. In contrast to cystamine, cysteamine showed no significant effects on either the monokine-induced HIV-1 expression in U1 or ACH-2 or acute and chronic HIV-1 infection in MDM.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Cystamine inhibits HIV type 1 replication in cells of monocyte/macrophage and T cell lineages. 763 61

Little is known about the activation level of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in human lung adenocarcinoma. We investigated the activation of fresh TIL at cellular and molecular levels and compared it with autologous and healthy normal peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) for baseline level. TIL were extracted from 12 primary lung adenocarcinomas by mechanical disruption without enzyme use and isolated by double-density Ficoll gradients. Flow-cytometry analysis of TIL subset distribution revealed that the majority was composed of T lymphocytes, and double labeling with alpha-CD3 and adhesion/activation markers revealed T cell subsets expressing CD49a, CD49b, CD54, and CD15, each of which was almost absent in autologous T peripheral blood lymphocytes (T-PBL). Moreover, the proportions of T-TIL expressing CD58, CD65, or CD25 were increased severalfold compared to T-PBL. Lymphokine gene activation in TIL was assessed by mRNA reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and primers for interleukin(IL)-2, IL-4, interferon (IFN) gamma, granulocyte/macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) beta. Semiquantitative comparisons between patients' TIL and PBL and healthy normal and activated PBL were performed by computerized image analysis. RT-PCR gel band products were quantified in relative units as a function of their size and intensity. TIL expressed detectable lymphokine mRNA but seemed poorly activated with respect to the total number of lymphokine genes and the amount of mRNA compared with alpha-CD3-activated healthy PBL. IL-2, IFN gamma, and TNF beta did not appear to be expressed at higher levels in TIL than in autologous or healthy normal PBL. However, two-thirds of the patients had TIL distinguishable from autologous PBL by specific expression of GM-CSF and from healthy normal PBL by expression of IL-4. These results show that lung adenocarcinoma TIL populations had little lymphokine gene activation despite the presence of several T cell subsets expressing different adhesion/activation markers. The lack or deficient combination of lymphokine production may be a factor that prevented efficient activation of TIL in these tumors.
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PMID:High expression of adhesion molecules/activation markers with little interleukin-2, interferon gamma, and tumor necrosis factor beta gene activation in fresh tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes from lung adenocarcinoma. 764 Dec 14

In this study we tested whether the pattern of cytokines expressed by human carcinomas could account for a different in vivo recruitment of leukocyte subpopulations as a part of the anti-tumor immune response. Two carcinoma cell lines, SK-OV-3 ovary carcinoma and CALU-3 lung carcinoma, were analyzed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), immunofluorescence and ELISA for the expression and in vitro production of cytokines with chemotactic, proinflammatory and growth-stimulating activity. Although both cell lines displayed a constitutive expression of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte macrophage-CSF (GM-CSF), M-CSF, interleukin (IL-) 1 alpha and IL-8, only CALU-3 cell line expressed IL-10, RANTES (Regulated upon Activation, Normal T Expressed and Secreted) and monocyte-activating protein (MCP)-1. MCP-1 and IL-8 were detected by immunohistochemistry on sections from tumors xenografted in nude mice. To analyze whether the tumor-released cytokines modulate leukocytes in tumor infiltration, we studied the distribution of human peripheral blood leukocytes injected in the proximity of SK-OV-3 and of CALU-3 tumor xenografts. While SK-OV-3 was unable to recruit human leukocytes and appeared to be barely infiltrated by murine CD45+ cells, CALU-3 appeared to be rapidly and heavily infiltrated by human leukocytes which induced tumor necrosis within 18-24 hr.
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PMID:An in vivo model to compare human leukocyte infiltration in carcinoma xenografts producing different chemokines. 766 28

A number of cytokines have been shown to have stimulatory activity on multipotent haematopoietic precursors. These include kit ligand (KL), interleukins (IL) 1, 3 and 6 and granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). Using reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction method (RT/PCR) we have examined the expression of these cytokines, the c-kit and IL-6 receptors, in long-term bone marrow culture (LTC) adherent layer cells in human bone marrow hypoplasia syndromes. Disorders studied include Fanconi's anaemia (FA, n = 16), idiopathic aplastic anaemia (AA, n = 11), Seckel's syndrome (n = 2), dyskeratosis congenita (n = 2), Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (n = 1), thrombocytopenia with absent radii syndrome (n = 1), acquired amegakaryocytosis (n = 1), paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (n = 1) and acquired agranulocytosis (n = 1). IL-6 and GM-CSF expression appeared reduced in most patients with FA, suggesting that impaired production of these cytokines may contribute to the bone marrow failure seen in most patients with FA. In contrast, abundant IL-6 and GM-CSF expression were seen in most patients with AA when compared with the FA group and controls; these may be mediators of a stromal response in this disorder. No obvious differences were seen between the different patients' groups and controls in expression of the other cytokines or cytokine receptors studied.
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PMID:The expression of cytokine and cytokine receptor genes in long-term bone marrow culture in congenital and acquired bone marrow hypoplasias. 751 72


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