Increased sensitivity to apoptotic stimuli in c-abl-deficient progenitor B-cell lines

AUTOR(ES)

Dorsch, Marion

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

The protooncogene c-abl encodes a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase whose cellular function is unknown. To study the possible involvement of c-Abl in proliferation, differentiation, and cell cycle regulation of early B cells, long-term lymphoid bone marrow cultures were established from c-abl-deficient mice and their wild-type littermates. Interleukin 7-dependent progenitor B-cell clones and lines expressing B220 and CD43 could be generated from both mutant and wild-type mice. The mutant and wild-type lines displayed no difference in their proliferative capacity as measured by thymidine incorporation in response to various concentrations of interleukin 7. Similarly, c-abl deficiency did not interfere with the ability of mutant clones to differentiate into surface IgM-positive cells in vitro. Analysis of cultures after growth factor deprivation, however, revealed a strikingly accelerated rate of cell death in c-abl mutant cells, due to apoptosis as confirmed by terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated UTP nick end labeling analysis. Furthermore, a greater susceptibility to apoptotic cell death in c-abl mutant cells was also observed after glucocorticoid treatment. These results suggest that mutant c-Abl renders the B-cell progenitors more sensitive to apoptosis, and may account for some of the phenotypes observed in c-abl-deficient animals.

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