title: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, but not lymphotoxin, stimulates growth of tumor cells in hairy cell leukemia.
abstract: We investigated the effect of recombinant tumor necrosis factor-alpha (rTNF-alpha) and recombinant lymphotoxin (rLT) in the growth modulation of purified hairy cell leukemia (HCL) cells. In response to rTNF-alpha, HCL cells from five of eight patients showed a 3 to 23-fold thymidine incorporation above their unstimulated controls. The effect was time and dose dependent with a maximum between 10 and 25 ng/ml rTNF-alpha after 120-hr incubation. rLT (1-50 ng/ml), however, could not enhance DNA synthesis in six of six cases. Cell number of rTNF-alpha stimulated cells ranged from 2-3 x 10(6)/ml from days 0-50 whereas cell number of unstimulated controls decreased from 3 x 10(6)/ml at day 0 to 0.01-0.02 x 10(6)/ml after 50 days in culture. rTNF-alpha induced proliferation could be suppressed in all HCL cell populations by 0.3 ng/ml recombinant interferon alpha (100 U/ml rIFN-alpha). TNF binding studies in two patients revealed that both TNF-sensitive HCL cells (1,990 +/- 148 receptors/cell) as well as TNF-insensitive HCL cells (1,261 +/- 101 receptors/cell) express specific receptors for TNF-alpha. These data show that rTNF-alpha and rLT have different effects on the growth of HCL cells. In addition there is a subgroup of patients who show no response to rLT or rTNF-alpha.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine III (Hematology/Oncology), University of Ulm, F.R.G.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Digel
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schöniger
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanic
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ragnavachar
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heimpel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Porzsolt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002455:Cell Division; D015536:Down-Regulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007370:Interferon Type I / Q000494:pharmacology; D007943:Leukemia, Hairy Cell / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D008233:Lymphotoxin-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism; D018124:Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D007370:Interferon Type I; D008233:Lymphotoxin-alpha; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018124:Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha