[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)