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CANCER MICROENVIRONMENT
Volume 7, Issue 1-2, Pages 79-90Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12307-014-0149-3
Keywords
Platelets; Leukemia; Apoptosis; Fatty acid; oxidation; Metabolism; Mitochondrial uncoupling; CDDO-Me; ABT-737
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- Oficina para el Fomento de la Investigacion, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (OFI) [4049]
- Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia y Tecnologia COLCIENCIAS [120351929072]
- NIH [CA51164, CA16672, CA100632]
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Here we report that leukemia cell lines and primary CD34+leukemic blasts exposed to platelet rich plasma (PRP) or platelet lysates (PL) display increased resistance to apoptosis induced by mitochondria-targeted agents ABT-737 and CDDO-Me. Intriguingly, leukemia cells exposed to platelet components demonstrate a reduction in mitochondrial membrane potential (Delta psi M) and a transient increase in oxygen consumption, suggestive of mitochondrial uncoupling. Accompanying the ranolazine-sensitive increase in oxygen consumption, a reduction in triglyceride content was also observed in leukemia cells cultured with platelet components indicating that lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation may support the molecular reduction of oxygen in these cells. Mechanistically, platelet components antagonized Bax oligomerization in accordance with previous observations supporting an antiapoptotic role for fatty acid oxidation in leukemia cells. Lastly, substantiating the notion that mitochondrial uncoupling reduces oxidative stress, platelet components induced a marked decrease in basal and rotenone-induced superoxide levels in leukemia cells. Taken together, the decrease in Delta psi M, the transient increase in ranolazine-sensitive oxygen consumption, the reduction in triglyceride levels, and the reduced generation of superoxide, all accompanying the increased resistance to mitochondrial apoptosis, substantiate the hypothesis that platelets may contribute to the chemoprotective sanctuary of the bone marrow microenvironment via promotion of mitochondrial uncoupling.
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