title: To the intranucleolar translocation of AgNORs in leukemic early granulocytic and plasmacytic precursors.
abstract: Early leukemic granulocytic and plasmacytic precursors were studied in vitro and in vivo to provide an information on the intranucleolar distribution of AgNORs (silver stained nucleolus organizer regions). In most of these cells AgNORs appeared as clusters of silver stained particles distributed in the whole nucleolar body. On the other hand, in some leukemic early granulocytic precursors, i.e., in myeloblasts and promyelocytes enlarged AgNORs were translocated in the nucleolar peripheral part. In addition, the number of translocated AgNORs at the nucleolar periphery was significantly smaller. Such translocation of a reduced number of AgNORs was easily produced by experimental aging, i.e., starving of cultured leukemic early granulocytic precursors (HL-60 and K562 cells) in vitro and seems to be reversible. Similar translocation of a reduced number of AgNORs was also produced by aging of leukemic plasmacytic precursors. Thus, the translocation of the reduced number of AgNORs to the nucleolar periphery in some blastic leukemic hematopoietic cells might be an useful marker of their aging at the single cell level. However, more studies in this direction are required in the future.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, U nemocnice 1, Prague 2, 128 20, Czech Republic. karel.smetana@uhkt.cz
authors.forename: Karel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Smetana
authors.forename: Hana
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Klamová
authors.forename: Michaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pluskalová
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stöckbauer
authors.forename: Zbynek
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hrkal
mesh_terms: D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000502:physiology; D002466:Cell Nucleolus / Q000378:metabolism*; D016922:Cellular Senescence / Q000502:physiology; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000378:metabolism; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D018922:HL-60 Cells; D006801:Humans; D020014:K562 Cells; D007938:Leukemia / Q000378:metabolism*; D009697:Nucleolus Organizer Region / Q000378:metabolism*; D010950:Plasma Cells / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D021381:Protein Transport; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000378:metabolism; D016622:Silver Staining
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm