Difference in response to colony-stimulating factors and involvement of
protein kinase C signal transduction system in three subclones from the
ME-1 cell line and two sublines
K Yanagisawa, M Sato, T Horiuchi, H Hasegawa and S Fujita
First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Ehime
University, Japan.
We previously established a cell line from a patient with acute
myelomonocytic leukemia with eosinophilia (M4E0), ME-1. ME-1 cells are
responsive to colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) such as interleukin-3
(IL-3), IL-4, and granulocyte-macrophage CSF (GM-CSF), and exhibit
monocyte-macrophage differentiation. We isolated three subclones, ME-F1
from ME-1, and ME-F2 and ME-F3 from two sublines of ME-1. These subclones
had different morphologic, cytochemical, phenotypic, and cytogenetic
features. They represented different monocytic-lineage differentiation
stages and exhibited different responses to IL-3, GM- CSF, and especially
IL-4. IL-3, GM-CSF, and IL-4 enhanced proliferation and differentiation to
macrophage-like cells in the ME-F1 subclone. However, they enhanced only
proliferation of ME-F2 cells and only differentiation to macrophage-like
cells in the ME-F3 subclone. To elucidate possible differences in signal
transduction mechanisms in ME- F1, ME-F2, and ME-F3 cells following
stimulation by CSFs, we studied the effects of IL-3 and IL-4 on protein
kinase C (PKC) activity. Both IL-3 and IL-4 induced a rapid, transient
decrease of cytosolic PKC in ME-F1 cells, but did not affect PKC activity
in ME-F2 and ME-F3 cells. The PKC inhibitors,
1-(5-isoquinolinyl-sulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H- 7) and calphostin C
inhibited IL-3-induced enhancement of proliferation and differentiation of
ME-F1 cells, but did not inhibit enhancement of proliferation of ME-F2
cells and differentiation of ME-F3 cells. Our data suggest that
PKC-dependent signal transduction is considerably related to IL-3-induced
proliferation and differentiation of ME-F1 cells. In addition, it was
demonstrated that the two subclones, ME-F2 and ME-F3, lost one of the two
responses of ME-F1 cells to CSFs, either proliferation or differentiation,
and simultaneously lost PKC-dependent response to CSFs.
Volume 84,
Issue 1,
pp. 84-93,
07/01/1994
Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Hematology