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CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue 10, Pages 709-716Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2003.00314.x
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Theileria infection of bovine leucocytes induces uncontrolled proliferation and a transformed phenotype comparable to tumour cells. Infected cells have many characteristics of activated leucocytes and use autocrine loops to augment proliferation. We have shown previously that, in infected B cells, PI3-K controls a granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) autocrine loop to increase both proliferation and activation of the activator protein 1 (AP-1) transcription factor. We show here that the same infected B cells also use a tumour necrosis factor (TNF) alpha autocrine loop that again contributes to proliferation and augments nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB activation. Interestingly, both pharmacological inhibition of TNF synthesis and neutralizing anti-TNF antibodies lead to a reduction in proliferation and a 50% drop in NF-kappaB activation, without inducing apoptosis.
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