title: Expression of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) in two Hodgkin's Reed-Sternberg (H-RS) cell lines, HDLM-1 and KM-H2, and in H-RS cells in tissues.
abstract: The authors studied the production of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) and the expression of its receptor (c-fms) in two Hodgkin's Reed-Sternberg (H-RS) cell lines, HDLM-1 and KM-H2 and in H-RS cells in tissues. We found that both types of H-RS cell can produce M-CSF, as was confirmed by the presence of M-CSF mRNA and protein in the cells and by the presence of macrophage colony-stimulating activity in conditioned medium. M-CSF was also expressed by H-RS cells in lymph nodes from patients with Hodgkin's disease. In cultures, KM-H2 cells appeared to produce a lesser amount of M-CSF than did HDLM-1 cells, as indicated by weaker staining with anti-M-CSF in the former cells. In KM-H2 cells, most of the M-CSF was located in the cytoplasm, and in HDLM-1 cells, in the Golgi apparatus and/or on the cell membrane. The two types of cultured H-RS cell either did not express c-fms at all, or expressed it only extremely weakly, perhaps because of the loss of dependence on specific growth factors during culture. The production of M-CSF by H-RS cells may contribute to the clinical and pathologic changes seen in patients with Hodgkin's disease, such as the increased abundance of histiocytes in tissues infiltrated by H-RS cells. Alternatively, the expression of both M-CSF and c-fms could confer a growth advantage to some H-RS cells in an autocrine fashion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D016539:Reed-Sternberg Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000737:chemistry; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor