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CANCER IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOTHERAPY
Volume 62, Issue 1, Pages 51-63Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-012-1300-y
Keywords
T cell; Gene array; CLL; Apoptosis
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- Swedish Cancer Society
- Cancer Society in Stockholm
- King Gustav V Jubilee Fund
- Stockholm County Council
- Cancer and Allergy Foundation
- Torsten Foundation
- Ragnar Soderberg Foundation
- Karolinska Institutet Foundations
- Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran
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T cells may have a role in sustaining the leukemic clone in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In this study, we have examined the ability of T cells from CLL patients to support the survival of the leukemic B cells in vitro. Additionally, we compared global gene expression of T cells from indolent CLL patients with healthy individuals and multiple myeloma (MM) patients. Apoptosis of purified leukemic B cells was inhibited in vitro when co-cultured with increasing numbers of autologous T cells (p < 0.01) but not autologous B and T cells of normal donors. The anti-apoptotic effect exceeded that of the anti-apoptotic cytokine IL-4 (p = 0.002) and was greater with CD8+ cells (p = 0.02) than with CD4+ cells (p = 0.05). The effect was depended mainly on cell-cell contact although a significant effect was also observed in transwell experiments (p = 0.05). About 356 genes involved in different cellular pathways were deregulated in T cells of CLL patients compared to healthy individuals and MM patients. The results of gene expression profiling were verified for 6 genes (CCL4, CCL5 (RANTES), XCL1, XCL2, KLF6, and TRAF1) using qRT-PCR and immunoblotting. Our results demonstrate that CLL-derived T cells can prevent apoptosis of leukemic B cells and have altered expression of genes that may facilitate the survival of the leukemic clone.
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