title: Expression of HLA-G in patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL).
abstract: The expression of HLA-G was reported in certain malignancies and its role in escaping from immunosurveillance in cancers was proposed since HLA-G is a nonconventional HLA class I molecule that protects fetus from immunorecognition during pregnancy. Recent studies proposed HLA-G as novel prognostic marker for patients with B-CLL. HLA-G was showed to bear even better prognostic information compared to Zeta-chain associated protein of 70kDa (ZAP-70) and CD38 although some other authors did not find HLA-G expression in CLL. Therefore in this study we characterized the expression of HLA-G on both RNA and protein level. In most of 20 B-CLL patients we were able to detect signal from HLA-G using flow cytometry analysis. The expression of HLA-G was confirmed on messenger level by real-time RT-PCR experiments. No correlation between HLA-G expression and expression of well established prognostic factors such as ZAP-70 and CD38 was detected. These results confirm that HLA-G is expressed on CLL leukemic cells. Furthermore the expression of HLA-G on CLL cells suggests that this molecule might be involved in escaping of CLL cells from immunosurveillance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University, Lublin, Poland. giannop@tlen.pl
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Giannopoulos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dmoszyńska
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bojarska-Junak
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roliński
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D015973:Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D059951:HLA-G Antigens; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens; D059951:HLA-G Antigens; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D012333:RNA, Messenger