Expression of Cytokine Genes, Cytokine Receptor Genes, and Transcription Factors in Cultured Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg Cells1
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[CANCER RESEARCH 52, 3353-3360, June 15, 1992] Expression of Cytokine Genes, Cytokine Receptor Genes, and Transcription Factors in Cultured Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg Cells1 Hans-JürgenGruss, Marion A. Brach, Hans-GünterDrexler, Renate Bonifer, Roland H. Mertelsmann, and Friedhelm Herrmann2 Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Freiburg Medical Center, Freiburg [H-J. G.,M.A. B., R. B., R. H. M.,F. H.], and German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures [H-G. D.J, Braunschweig, Germany ABSTRACT 2 for review). Various cell types have been proposed as the originators of HD including lymphoid cells (3-6), mononuclear In the present study, we show by Northern blot analysis and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay that the Hodgkin's disease (HD)-derived phagocytes (7-11 ), interdigitating reticulum cells (12), follicular cell lines HDLM-2 and KM-H2 express a variety of cytokine genes dentritic cells (13, 14), and granulopoietic cells (15). Unfortu either constitutively or upon induction with phorbol ester 12-O-tetrade- nately, the analysis of RS-H cells is hampered by the scarcity canoylphorbol-13-acetate. Cytokine genes expressed by HD-derived lines of this neoplastic component and contamination with bystander include granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (( 'SI1'),mac- cells in HD-involved tissues. The advent of improved tissue rophage-CSF, interleukin (II,)-!-,». II -X IL-5, II -6, IL-8, leukemia culture methodology for the establishment of immortalized cell inhibitory factor, tumor necrosis factor-«,tumor necrosis factor-/?, and lines has enhanced the possibilities of studying neoplastic cells. transforming growth factor-/?, while transcripts and the corresponding Recently, a number of cell lines have been established from proteins for granulocyte-CSF, IL-1-/3, IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-10, and the tissues or pleural effusions of patients with HD (16-21), mostly JE/macrophage chemoattractant and activating factor gene were not with the nodular sclerosis variant. These in vitro cultured cells detectable in cytoplasmic RNA and culture supernatants obtained from may represent the in vivo RS-H cells having identical or very both lines. In addition, IL-2 receptor (R) p55 and macrophage-CSF R (c- fmx) genes were expressed by both lines. HDLM-2, but not KM-H2 similar characteristic features. Therefore, they might be opera cells, exhibited the II -6 R p80 and the IL-2 R p75 chain. Analysis of tionally regarded as in vitro representatives of RS-H cells, nuclear proteins that bind to oligonucleotides containing the consensus although it has to be considered that cell lines cannot be derived sequences of the transcription factors activation protein 1, nuclear factor from the vast majority of cases of HD, and therefore, HD (NF) <cB,and NFAT 1 revealed a pattern for HD lines resembling that tumors that allow establishment of cell lines may somehow •¿ofactivatedT-cells: HDLM-2 and KM-H2 cells constitutively expressed bear atypical features. NF binding to the NF of activated T-cells (type 1), previously described Recent studies aimed at determining the precursor identity to be T-cell specific. In addition, NF «B-bindingproteins obtained from of RS-H cells and the pathogenesis of HD have focused on both lines showed, in electrophoretic mobility shift assays, the same phenotypic studies (see Ref. 22 for review) and molecular migration pattern as T-cell-derived proteins but differed from monocyte- genetic studies of rearrangements of the T-cell receptor and and B-cell-derived proteins. IV cross-linking experiments confirmed that immunoglobulin genes (23-26), have analyzed possible altera NF xB-binding proteins of M, 85,000, 75,000, and 50,000/55,000 were detectable in nuclear extracts obtained from T-cells and both HD lines, tions of the genomic structure and expression levels of certain while monocytes and B-cells displayed the M, 50,000/55,000 and 75,000 protooncogenes including those of the ras gene family (27, 28), NF *H complex only. Both HD lines also constitutively expressed tran of the c-myc gene (16, 29) and the c-fms gene (30, 31), and have scripts for i--fiisand c-jun, which are involved in heterodimeric formation also explored the presence of Ebstein-Barr virus DNA in RS- of the transcription factor activation protein 1, as well as for the NF «B/ H cells. In most of these studies, HD-derived cell lines were KBF1 gene. used. Despite these extensive efforts, there is still no consensus concerning either the etiology of HD or the identity of RS-H INTRODUCTION cells. Characterization of further features of HD-derived cell lines would thus be important in increasing our understanding HD3 is a malignant disorder morphologically characterized of HD. by the presence of multinucleated RS and the mononuclear H A number of features of HD are consistent with characteris cells in a stremai background consisting of lymphocytes, plasma tics of a tumor of cytokine-producing cells, including occurrence of "B" symptoms, of sclerosis, eosinophilia, and polycarion cells, histiocytic cells, and eosinophils (1). Both the etiology of HD and the precursor identity of its presumed malignant com formation. Several investigators have assessed the capacity of ponent, the RS and H cells, have remained uncertain (see Ref. RS-H cells to express cytokine genes. For instance, Paietta et al. (31) have shown that the L428 cell line, obtained from a Received 12/10/91; accepted 4/6/92. nodular sclerosis HD patient, disclosed transcripts for the M- The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in CSF and its receptor, encoded by the c-fms protooncogene (32). accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. CSF secretion by cultured H-RS cells has also been shown by 1Supported by the Deutsche Krebshilfe. 2To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Internal Burrichter et al. (33) and Byrne et al. (34). Naumovski et al. Medicine I. University of Freiburg Medical Center, Hugstetter Str. 55, D-7800 (35) have described secretion of IFN--y by the SUP-HD1 cell Freiburg i.Br., Germany. line. By means oÃinsitu hybridization, transcripts for IL-5 were 3The abbreviations used are: HD, Hodgkin's disease; RS, Reed-Sternberg; H, Hodgkin; CSF, colony-stimulating factor; M-CSF, macrophage CSF; IFN. inter- detected in RS cells of primary HD tissues by Samoszuk and feron; TNF, tumor necrosis factor; GM-CSF, granulocyte-macrophage CSF; G- Nansen (36). Hsu et al. (37-39) have analyzed expression of CSF, granulocyte CSF; IL, interleukin; LIF, leukemia inhibitory factor; TGF, IL-1, TNF-a, and TNF-0 in the HDLM-1 and HDLM-ld transforming growth factor; JE/MCAF, JE/macrophage chemoattractant and Hodgkin lines (37-39). Similarly, Kretschmer et al. (40) have activating factor; cDNA complementary DNA; AP, activation protein; NF, nu clear factor; NFAT 1, nuclear factor of activated T-cells; EMSA, electrophoretic shown the ability of L428 and L540 Hodgkin cells to produce mobility shift assay; TPA, l2-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate; moAb, mono TNF. TGF-/3 and IL-6 secretion by RS-H cells has also been clonal antibody; TCR, T-cell receptor; ATCC, American Type Culture Collection; SDS, sodium dodecyl sulfate; SSC, standard sodium citrate; IL-2R (IL-6R), IL- demonstrated in both cultured and primary Hodgkin tissues 2 (IL-6) receptor. (41-43). Also, expression of IL-9 by cultured and primary RS- 3353 Downloaded from cancerres.aacrjournals.org on September 26, 2021. © 1992 American Association for Cancer Research. CYTOKINES IN HODGKIN'S DISEASE H cells has been shown (44, 45). kilobase Taql/BanU fragment of pGEM4-hIL-6 (kindly provided by T. Given these first observations, the aim of the present study Hirano, University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan); IL-7, the 0.51-kilobase was to examine the spectrum of cytokines released by the two Pvull fragment of pGembl-hIL-7 (S. Gillis); IL-8, the 0,4-kilobase well-defined HD-derived permanent cell lines HDLM-2 (46) Bglll/EcoRl fragment of pBBG44 (British Bio-Technology, Oxford, and KM-H2 (47) in more detail. To this end, an extensive panel United Kingdom); IL-10, the 0.76-kilobase Bgm/Hindlll fragment of pcDSRa (kindly provided by P. Vieira, DNAX Research Institute of of cytokines was analyzed at the mRNA and protein levels, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA); JE/MCAF, the 0.74- including GM-CSF, G-CSF, M-CSF, IL-1-«and IL-1-/3, IL-2, kilobase Kpnl fragment of pGEM-hJE34 (kindly provided by B. Rollins, IL-3, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-7, IL-8, IL-10, LIF, TNF-a, TNF-0, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA); LIF, the 0.6-kilobase TGF-/3, IFN-7, the gene coding for the JE/MCAF protein, and ///nrfIII/£coRI fragment of pBBG 46 (British Bio-Technology); TNF- the early response genes c-jun and c-fos, known to be involved a, the 1.0-kilobase Psll fragment of pSP64-hTNF-a (kindly provided in cytokine signaling (48, 49). In addition, expression of the by G. Adolph, Boehringer International, Vienna, Austria); TNF-/3, the p55 IL-2R a and p75 ßchain,of the p80 IL-6R, and of the M- 0.6-kilobase Ndel/BgllI fragment of pBBGS (British Bio-Technology); CSF receptor (c-fms) was assessed by Northern blotting using IFN-7, the 0.7-kilobase AamHI fragment of pBR322-hIFN-7 (Genen- tech, San Francisco, CA); TGF-/J, the 1.04-kilobase £coRIfragment of specific cDNA probes. The presence of transcription factors known to bind to consensus sequences in regulatory 5'-flanking pSP 64 (Genentech); c-fms, the 1.23-kilobase £coRIfragment of pcfms 104 (ATCC); NF «B/KBF1,the 3.9-kilobase Noti insert of pBKS-«BFl regions of many cytokine genes (50), such as the AP 1, the NF (kindly provided by S.