TY - JOUR
T1 - Significantly lower P-glycoprotein expression in acute promyelocytic leukemia than in other types of acute myeloid leukemia
T2 - Immunological, molecular and functional analyses
AU - Paietta, Elisabeth
AU - Andersen, Janet
AU - Racevskis, Janis
AU - Gallagher, Robert
AU - Bennett, John
AU - Yunis, Jorge
AU - Cassileth, Peter
AU - Wiernik, Peter H.
PY - 1994/6
Y1 - 1994/6
N2 - Expression of P-glycoprotein (Pgp), the product of the multidrug resistance (MDR1) gene, detected by flow cytometric analysis of the binding of antibody 4E3.16, was found on significantly fewer leukemic cells in 35 adult patients with de novo acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) (mean 14.8%, median 7%) than in 184 patients with non-APL acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at diagnosis (mean 28.3%, median 18%) (p=0.0038). APL was diagnosed based on morphology, the detection of t(15;17) and of the chimeric fusion transcript PMI/RARα by PCR. To further substantiate low MDR1 expression in APL, we studied cells from 11 APL patients at the molecular and functional level in comparison to 48 non-APL cases. The diagnosis of APL was associated with the absence of Pgp function by the rhodamine efflux assay (p=0.0001). Furthermore, MDR1-specific transcript levels, determined by quantitative PCR with two distinct sets of primers, were significantly lower in mononuclear cells from the APL than the other AML cases (p=0.013). The frequency of leukemic cells positive for CD34, an antigen presumably associated with Pgp expression in AML, was significantly lower in APL than other AMLs (p=0.0001). In contrast to non-APL leukemias, those few cases of CD34 strongly positive APL neither expressed Pgp nor contained significant MDR1 transcript levels. Low expression of Pgp by APL cells may provide the biologic basis for the high sensitivity of this leukemia subtype to chemotherapeutic agents in vivo.
AB - Expression of P-glycoprotein (Pgp), the product of the multidrug resistance (MDR1) gene, detected by flow cytometric analysis of the binding of antibody 4E3.16, was found on significantly fewer leukemic cells in 35 adult patients with de novo acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) (mean 14.8%, median 7%) than in 184 patients with non-APL acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at diagnosis (mean 28.3%, median 18%) (p=0.0038). APL was diagnosed based on morphology, the detection of t(15;17) and of the chimeric fusion transcript PMI/RARα by PCR. To further substantiate low MDR1 expression in APL, we studied cells from 11 APL patients at the molecular and functional level in comparison to 48 non-APL cases. The diagnosis of APL was associated with the absence of Pgp function by the rhodamine efflux assay (p=0.0001). Furthermore, MDR1-specific transcript levels, determined by quantitative PCR with two distinct sets of primers, were significantly lower in mononuclear cells from the APL than the other AML cases (p=0.013). The frequency of leukemic cells positive for CD34, an antigen presumably associated with Pgp expression in AML, was significantly lower in APL than other AMLs (p=0.0001). In contrast to non-APL leukemias, those few cases of CD34 strongly positive APL neither expressed Pgp nor contained significant MDR1 transcript levels. Low expression of Pgp by APL cells may provide the biologic basis for the high sensitivity of this leukemia subtype to chemotherapeutic agents in vivo.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 7516029
AN - SCOPUS:0028270713
SN - 0887-6924
VL - 8
SP - 968
EP - 973
JO - Leukemia
JF - Leukemia
IS - 6
ER -