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Monoclonal antibodies that define HLA-DR antigen bind to a variety of human tumors, such as Burkitt lymphoma and melanoma cells grown in vitro and with the spent medium of these cultures. Two radioimmunoassays have been developed to detect HLA-DR antigen circulating in human sera. The inhibition assay is based on the inhibition of binding of monoclonal antibodies against HLA-DR to the target preparation; the double-determinant assay traces antigen bound by a solid-phase monoclonal antibody by the use of a second 125I-labeled antibody. Twenty-six of 39 sera from patients with acute lymphoblastoid leukemia, 2 of 29 sera from patients with acute myeloid leukemia, and 5 of 31 sera from patients with advanced metastatic melanoma showed increased levels of HLA-DR antigen, whereas none of 28 sera from patients with other malignancies had increased levels of HLA-DR antigen, and only 2 of 155 sera from healthy donors bound monoclonal antibodies to HLA-DR at detectable levels. The detection of circulating HLA-DR antigen in sera of cancer patients may be useful in monitoring patients with certain malignancies.
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PMID:Increased levels of circulating HLA-DR antigen in sera of patients with acute lymphoblastoid leukemia. 643 Nov 98

Two human T lymphocyte subpopulations were purified on the basis of their different affinities to sheep erythrocytes and compared with unseparated and non-T lymphocytes as effectors in cell-mediated lympholysis (CML) after mixed lymphocyte culture (MCL), in antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) against the mouse mastocytoma line P 815, and in spontaneous cell-mediated cytotoxicity (SCMC) against the human myeloid leukaemia line K 562 and the Burkitt lymphoma line RAJI. The low-avidity T cells (T1) had developed into more potent effectors than the high-avidity (Te) when assessed in CML. In ADCC and SCMC both subsets exhibited low but consistent lysis with no demonstrable differences. Addition of human leucocyte interferon to the ADCC and SCMC cultures resulted in enhanced SCMC, most notable and to an equal extent with the T cell subsets. In contrast, ADCC of unseparated cells, non-T cells, and the two T subsets was found to be unchanged after interferon addition. These data are discussed in relation to findings with human T-cell subpopulations purified by other methods.
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PMID:Effector cell potential of two human T-cell subpopulations with different affinities to sheep erythrocytes. 645 Oct 24

Monoclonal antibodies generated against normal and leukemic human leukocytes were tested for their differential reactivity with leukemia and lymphoma cell lines as well as with circulating lymphoid and myeloid leukemic cells by means of immuno-scanning electron microscopy (immuno-SEM). Anti-T (OKT3), anti-mu-chain, anti-CALLA (J5), anti-BA-1, anti-BA-2, and anti-nonlymphoid (Mol) monoclonal antibodies were covalently conjugated to polystyrene latex microspheres (immunolatex), using a two-step glutaraldehyde reaction, and subsequently incubated with the various cell types. Cultured B-type Burkitt lymphoma cells (Daudi) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells displayed extensive labeling with monoclonal anti-mu, anti-B1, and anti-BA-1 immunolatex conjugates, while cultured malignant T cells (HD-Mar) showed positive labeling with OKT3 immunolatex alone. Cultured myelomonocytic cells (GDM-1) and cells obtained from patients with acute myeloblastic (AML) and monoblastic leukemia (AMoL) labeled only with anti-Mol immunolatex, while cultured promyelocytic cells (HL-60) displayed far less labeling with this conjugate. Common-type acute lymphoblastic leukemia (C/ALL) cells were labeled predominantly with the J5 (anti-CALLA) and anti-BA-2 immunolatex conjugates. Evidence is presented indicating that immuno-SEM employing monoclonal antibodies is a reproducible technique which may be used in the study of leukocyte maturation and may provide additional information in the classification of poorly differentiated leukemias.
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PMID:Utilization of monoclonal antibodies and immuno-scanning electron microscopy for the positive identification of human leukemic cells. 658 Nov 72

Nonrandom chromosome changes have been identified in a number of malignant human tumors. The leukemias are among the best studied malignant cells and they provide the largest body of relevant cytogenetic data. In chronic myeloid leukemia, a reasonably consistent translocation [t(9;22) (q34;q11)] is observed in 93 percent of all Ph1 positive patients. In the other patients, translocations are either two-way, involving No. 22 with some other chromosome or complex translocations involving Nos. 9 and 22 and another chromosome. In acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, two translocations are each specifically associated with leukemic cells arrested at two different stages of maturation. One of these, t(8;21)(q22;q22), is found mainly in patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia with maturation (AML-M2). The other, t(15;17)(q22?;q21?), is seen only in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL-M3). Various translocations have been observed in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or in Burkitt lymphoma. The most common is t(8;14)(q24;q32), but variants of this, namely t(2;8)(p13?;q24) and t(8;22)(q24;q11), have also been observed; in all of these, the consistent change involves 8q24. The various immunoglobulin loci are located on chromosomes 2, 14, and 22 in the same chromosome band affected by the translocations in B-cell leukemia. These translocations may occur randomly. If a specific translocation provides a particular cell type with a growth advantage, then selection could act to cause the proliferation of this aneuploid cell line vis-a-vis cells with a normal karyotype. In this view, the chromosome change could be the fundamental event leading to the leukemic transformation of an otherwise normal cell. The challenge for the future is to define the genes located at the sites of consistent translocations in myeloid leukemias and to determine the alterations in gene function that are associated with the translocation.
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PMID:Chromosome abnormalities in leukemia and lymphoma. 660 85

Chromosome studies were performed by EBV positive African Burkitt lymphoma cell lines. Variant translocations were found in 4 cases: two with t(2;8) (p12;q23 ou 24) and two with t(8;22) (q23 or 24;q11). Identical translocations were observed in EBV positive or negative non-african lymphomas or Burkitt type leukemia. These results show the uniqueness of Burkitt lymphoma leukemia and stress the importance of chromosome 8 rearrangement in this tumor.
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PMID:[Translocations t(2;8) and t(8;22) in continuous cell lines of African Burkitt's lymphoma]. 677 33

The antigen defined by a rat monoclonal antibody directed to a Burkitt lymphoma cell line was identified as globotriaosylceramide [Gal alpha (1 leads to 4)-Gal beta (1 leads to 4)-Glc beta (1 leads to 1)-ceramide]. The antibody demonstrated a strict steric specificity since it did not react with globoisotriaosylceramide [Gal alpha (1 leads to 3)-Gal beta (1 leads to 4)-Glc beta (1 leads to 1)-ceramide], the positional isomer of the antigen associated with the Burkitt lymphoma. Chemical analysis of various Burkitt lymphoma cell lines revealed that the Burkitt lymphoma cells contained more than 100 times as much of the glycolipid antigen as was found in other human lymphoma and leukemia cell lines.
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PMID:A glycolipid antigen associated with Burkitt lymphoma defined by a monoclonal antibody. 683 95

Glucocorticoid (GC) receptor and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) activities were studied in leukemia cells to investigate their diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Among cell lines with T-cell character, higher GC-receptor and TdT activities were found in T-ALL (HPB-ALL and ALL-Ichikawa) than in cells from adult pleomorphic T-cell leukemia (HPB-MLT). HPB-Null with pre-B cell-character exhibited moderate GC receptor but low TdT activity; Raji cells and CCRF-SB, derived from B-cell Burkitt lymphoma and B-ALL, respectively, manifested low GC receptor and no TdT activity. The highest GC receptor activity was demonstrated in null-cell ALL, followed, in order, by juvenile T-ALL, adult pleomorphic T-cell leukemia, and AML. Other kinds of lymphoid and monocytic leukemias exhibited low GC receptor and no TdT activity. Although low GC receptor and negative TdT were demonstrated in cells from seven out of nine patients under CML blastic crisis, the last patient had cells with positive TdT and GC receptor activity.
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PMID:Glucocorticoid receptors and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase activities in leukemic cells. 697 4

Effect of dexamethasone of the growth of two T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) cell lines, JM and TALL-1 and an American Burkitt lymphoma cell line, Ramos, of B-cell type was examined. While the growth of both TALL-1 and Ramos cell lines was significantly inhibited by dexamethasone at the concentration of 10(-7) M, JM cell line was markedly resistant at the high concentration of 10(-5) M of dexamethasone. The assay of glucocorticoid receptors showed that a small amount of the binding site was found in both T-cell leukemia cell lines, JM and TALL-1 and that a moderate amount of the binding site was found in Ramos cell line. Thus, glucocorticoid sensitivity (growth inhibition of these leukemia-lymphoma cell lines by dexamethasone) did not correlate with either the number of glucocorticoid receptor or with surface membrane markers of the target cells. This result suggests further marked heterogeneity of leukemic cells.
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PMID:Effect of dexamethasone on the growth of human lymphoblastoid cell lines. 698 21

Cell surface proteins and glycoproteins of several human lymphoblastoid- and neoplastic hemopoietic cell lines were radiolabeled by lactoperoxidase catalysed iodination and by sodium periodate/tritiated sodium borohydride. Electrophoretic patterns of radiolabeled proteins and glycoproteins obtained by electrophoresis under denaturing conditions (SDS-PAGE) were essentially similar for all examined lymphoblastoid cell lines, with a characteristic group of major radiolabeled glycoproteins gp44 and 24,31. Characteristic, individually different and distinguishable patterns of radiolabeled proteins were observed in different neoplastic hemopoietic cell lines: T-leukemia cell line MOLT 3, erythroleukemic cell line K562, pre-B cell leukemia line NALM 6, and a promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60. Cell surface proteins of HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cell line displayed some similarities to those of another myeloid leukemia cell line ML 3. Examined Burkitt lymphoma cell lines were similar to lymphoblastoid cell lines with some minor differences. Glycoprotein gp44, markedly labeled on lymphoblastoid cell lines, was absent on Burkitt lymphoma cell line Daudi. Electrophoretic patterns of cell surface proteins of blast cells from a few patients with leukemia examined simultaneously with the cell lines are described and discussed.
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PMID:Electrophoretic analysis of radiolabeled cell surface proteins and glycoproteins of some human hemopoietic cell lines. 733 94

The occurrence of isozymes of the proteolytic enzyme amino acid naphthylamidase was investigated in a panel of 44 neoplastic and non-neoplastic haematopoietic cell lines by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Two isozymes (A and C) were common for all lines, whereas different forms of a third isozyme with intermediate electrophoretic mobility (B) appeared in nine lines. Isozyme A seemed to be associated with cell proliferation and was not a marker for malignancy. The appearance of different B isozymes not present in normal peripheral blood lymphocytes, occurred in some Burkitt lymphoma lines and in two non-malignant lines maintained for a long time in culture. In three lines derived from myeloid leukaemia a variant of isozyme B seemed to be a marker for cell origin.
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PMID:Isozymes of amino acid naphthylamidase in human haematopoietic cell lines. 737 91


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