title: Regulation of the genes for interleukin-6 and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor by different inducers of differentiation in myeloid leukemic cells.
abstract: Different clones of myeloid leukemic cells can be induced to differentiate to mature macrophages and/or granulocytes by hematopoietic regulatory proteins and by other compounds. We now show that induction of differentiation in different clones of myeloid leukemic cells with the normal hematopoietic proteins granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), or interleukin 3 and by compounds such as dexamethasone or cytosine arabinoside (ara C) induces the expression of genes for the myeloid differentiation inducing protein MGI-2 that we have shown is interleukin 6 (IL-6) and for GM-CSF. We have previously shown that induction of differentiation with interleukin-1, IL-6, or bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) also induces IL-6 and GM-CSF gene expression. Treatment of these leukemic clones with hematopoietic proteins that do not induce differentiation did not induce IL-6 or GM-CSF gene expression. The results indicate that induction of IL-6 and GM-CSF gene expression is part of the normal differentiation program in myeloid cells and support our previous evidence that there is transregulation of gene expression between different hematopoietic regulatory proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shabo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lotem
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sachs
mesh_terms: D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000494:pharmacology; D003561:Cytarabine / Q000494:pharmacology; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000494:pharmacology; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000235:genetics* / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000494:pharmacology; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000235:genetics*; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors; D006133:Growth Substances; D007375:Interleukin-1; D007377:Interleukin-3; D015850:Interleukin-6; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D003561:Cytarabine; D003907:Dexamethasone; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor