title: [Depressing the immune escape of acute myelomonocytic leukemia via an anti-Fas ribozyme].
abstract: In order to investigate the inhibition role of anti-Fas hammerhead ribozyme on Fas expression and Fas-mediated apoptosis in CTLL-2 cells (mouse CTL cell line), and to explore a new way for enhancing the ability of T cells against Leukemia in donor lymphocytes infusion, CTLL-2 cells were transfected with pEGFP-RZ596 and pEGFPC1 (mock-transfected) via electroporation. Fas expression on CTLL-2 cells was detected by RT-PCR and Western blot. The killing effect of CTL against WEHI-3 (mouse acute myelomonocytic leukemia cell line) highly expressing FasL in vitro was detected by MTT assay. The caspase-3 proteolytic activity and the apoptosis rate of CTLL-2 cells were detected by means of BD AproAlert Caspase-3 Colorimetric kit and FITC labeled Annexin-V apoptosis detecting kit respectively. The results showed that the anti-Fas ribozyme could be successfully introduced into mouse CTLL-2 cells; Fas expression on the surface of cells transfected with the ribozyme was obviously decreased, in comparison with control and mock-transfected cells; after cocultured with WEHI-3 cells, the viability of CTLL-2 cells transfeced with the ribozyme was significantly increased, as compared with other two groups; caspase-3 activity and apoptosis rate of the ribozyme-transfeced cells were significantly decreased, the killing effect of CTLL-2 transfected with the ribozyme was stronger than that of other groups. It is concluded that anti-Fas ribozyme can remarkably decrease Fas expression on CTLL-2 cells, so as to avoid Fas-mediated apoptosis by Fas ligand on WEHI-3 cells, and to enhance their killing activity against WEHI-3 cells, as a result, the immune escape of acute myelomonocytic leukemia was depressed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Hematology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China. liulinbo@medmail.com.cn
authors.forename: Ling-Bo
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wei-Ming
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D053222:Fas Ligand Protein / Q000276:immunology*; D015479:Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D016337:RNA, Catalytic; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D019139:Tumor Escape / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D053222:Fas Ligand Protein; D016337:RNA, Catalytic; C427204:hammerhead ribozyme