title: Defective chemokine production in T-leukemia cell lines and its possible functional role.
abstract: Peripheral blood lymphocytes and T-cell clones produced nanogram quantities of the chemokines RANTES, MIP-1alpha, MIP-1beta, MCP-1, IL-8 and GRO-alpha as well as the motogenic cytokine HGF. In contrast, various T-leukemia cell lines at different stages of differentiation did not produce the same chemokines/cytokines. In order to study the possible functional importance of the poor chemokine production different T-cell lines were compared with respect to development of motile forms and migration on extracellular matrix components in the absence and presence of various chemokines. RANTES, MIP-1alpha, MIP-1beta, IL-8, GRO-alpha and lymphotactin did not augment the development of motile forms including the size and appearance of the pseudopodia activity of the T-leukemia cell lines. The T-cell lines migrated spontaneously on/to fibronectin in a Boyden chamber assay system. Chemokines augmented the migration of the T-leukemia cell lines on fibronectin in the Boyden system in a chemotactic fashion with peak responses at 10 to 50 ng/ml. Thus, the production of chemokines is defective in neoplastic T-lymphocytes. The defective chemokine production does not seem to play any major role for the basic locomotor capacity of the cells but may modulate the responsiveness to exogenous chemokines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Immunology, University of Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ivanoff
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ivanoff
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Sundqvist
mesh_terms: D002465:Cell Movement; D018925:Chemokines / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D015458:Leukemia, T-Cell / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D018925:Chemokines