Demonstration of high-affinity interleukin-2 receptors on B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells: Functional and structural characterization |
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Authors: | H Yagura T Tamaki T Furitsu Y Tomiyama T Nishiura N Tominaga S Katagiri T Yonezawa S Tarui |
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Institution: | (1) Second Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, 1-1-50, Fukushima-ku, 553 Osaka, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary Functional and structural characteristics of interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptors on B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cells were analyzed by a proliferation assay, IL-2 binding assay and cross-linking study. In the3H-thymidine incorporation assay, purified B-CLL cells from four out of sixteen cases, in which the percentage of Tac antigen (Tac Ag) positive cells in peripheral blood lymphocytes ranged from 0 to 48.8%, responded to IL-2 (100 U/ml) after both 3- and 6-day incubation. No relationship was found between the responsiveness to IL-2 and the percentage of Tac Ag positive cells. In the radiolabeled IL-2 binding assay, however, B-CLL cells from all seven cases examined, including three cases with mitogenic response to IL-2 and four cases without mitogenic response, were shown to have both high- and low-affinity receptors. The number of high- and low-affinity receptors per cell ranged from 29–186 and from 420 to 1,800, respectively. Furthermore, with the affinity cross-linking method p55 (Tac Ag) and p70/75 were found even in cases without mitogenic response in their B-CLL cells. In conclusion, the B-CLL cells so far examined possessed high-affinity IL-2 receptors consisting of p55 and p70/75; nevertheless, this was not sufficient to respond to the mitogenic signal of IL-2. |
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Keywords: | B-CLL IL-2 IL-2 receptor Binding assay Affinity cross linking |
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