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. 1989 Jun;9(6):2414–2423. doi: 10.1128/mcb.9.6.2414

Growth factor gene activation and clonal heterogeneity in an autostimulatory myeloid leukemia.

K B Leslie 1, J W Schrader 1
PMCID: PMC362314  PMID: 2668733

Abstract

Cell lines were isolated from an in vivo-passaged myelomonocytic leukemia, WEHI-274, that arose in a mouse infected with the Abelson leukemia virus-Moloney leukemia virus complex. Clones were isolated in vitro in the presence or absence of a source of a hemopoietic growth factor, interleukin-3 (IL-3), and were divisible into three distinct classes. All three classes were leukemogenic in vivo. In vitro, the class I clone grew slowly at low cell density but responded with an increased growth rate to IL-3, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and autoconditioned medium. Supernatants of these cultures contained a factor with the biological, biochemical, and antigenic properties of IL-3. Class II clones grew better in vitro at low cell densities than did the class I clone and also responded with an increased growth rate to IL-3, GM-CSF, and autoconditional medium but produced GM-CSF rather than IL-3. In contrast, class III clones died in vitro at all cell densities unless exogenous IL-3 or GM-CSF was added. Moreover, they produced no autostimulatory factors. In the class I and class II clones, one allele of the respective IL-3 or GM-CSF gene is rearranged, and in each case, grossly abnormal RNA transcripts of the rearranged gene are present. Neither rearrangements nor abnormal RNA transcripts of the IL-3 or GM-CSF gene were detected in the class III clones. All three classes exhibited a common rearrangement of the c-myb gene, which suggested that all were derived from the one ancestral cell. These experiments demonstrate that two distinct and independent autostimulatory events were involved in the progression of a single disease.

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