TY - JOUR
T1 - Signal antonymy unique to myelodysplastic marrows correlates with altered expression of E2F1
AU - Mundle, Suneel D.
AU - Mativi, B. Yifwayimare
AU - Cartlidge, Jonathan D.
AU - Dangerfield, Bruce
AU - Broady-Robinson, La Tanya
AU - Li, Biarou
AU - Shetty, Vilasini
AU - Venugopal, Parameswaran
AU - Gregory, Stephanie A.
AU - Preisler, Harvey D.
AU - Raza, Azra
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have previously been reported to show competitively high rates of apoptosis and proliferation in the bone marrow (BM). Using a double-labelling technique in the present study, we demonstrated that a significantly high number of S-phase cells were simultaneously apoptotic (signal antonymy; SA) in MDS (mean ± s.e.m. 53.5 ± 6.7%, n = 24, P < 0.001). In contrast, SA was negligible in all other specimens studied, including normal control BM (n = 13) from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients, BM from patients with de novo acute myelogenous leukaemia (1'AML; n = 5), or secondary AML that had transformed from MDS (2'AML; n = 10), or the solid tumours from patients with NHL (n = 9) or head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC; n = 10). Subsequently, the expression of a transcription factor, E2F1, was studied in density-separated BM aspirate mononuclear cells from MDS patients (n = 9) and a normal control. Two separate sets of primers were used that recognized the regulatory retinoblastoma (Rb) protein-binding region and the functional DNA-binding region of E2F1. Interestingly, although the latter manifested the expected band (280 bp) in all samples, the Rb-specific primers showed the expected band (380 bp) in the normal and in 4/9 MDS specimens. Two other MDS specimens also showed a smaller band (~ 325 bp), whereas 3/9 MDS patients showed exclusively the smaller band. The levels of SA were significantly higher in those MDS cases that showed the smaller Rb-specific band either alone or in addition to the expected band (median 19.5%, n = 4, P = 0.037) than in those showing exclusively the expected band (median 0.4%, n = 3). Our present studies show SA as a characteristic feature of MDS and, importantly, demonstrate its link with an altered expression of E2F1 in some MDS patients.
AB - Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have previously been reported to show competitively high rates of apoptosis and proliferation in the bone marrow (BM). Using a double-labelling technique in the present study, we demonstrated that a significantly high number of S-phase cells were simultaneously apoptotic (signal antonymy; SA) in MDS (mean ± s.e.m. 53.5 ± 6.7%, n = 24, P < 0.001). In contrast, SA was negligible in all other specimens studied, including normal control BM (n = 13) from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients, BM from patients with de novo acute myelogenous leukaemia (1'AML; n = 5), or secondary AML that had transformed from MDS (2'AML; n = 10), or the solid tumours from patients with NHL (n = 9) or head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC; n = 10). Subsequently, the expression of a transcription factor, E2F1, was studied in density-separated BM aspirate mononuclear cells from MDS patients (n = 9) and a normal control. Two separate sets of primers were used that recognized the regulatory retinoblastoma (Rb) protein-binding region and the functional DNA-binding region of E2F1. Interestingly, although the latter manifested the expected band (280 bp) in all samples, the Rb-specific primers showed the expected band (380 bp) in the normal and in 4/9 MDS specimens. Two other MDS specimens also showed a smaller band (~ 325 bp), whereas 3/9 MDS patients showed exclusively the smaller band. The levels of SA were significantly higher in those MDS cases that showed the smaller Rb-specific band either alone or in addition to the expected band (median 19.5%, n = 4, P = 0.037) than in those showing exclusively the expected band (median 0.4%, n = 3). Our present studies show SA as a characteristic feature of MDS and, importantly, demonstrate its link with an altered expression of E2F1 in some MDS patients.
KW - Apoptosis
KW - DNA synthesis
KW - E2F1
KW - Myelodysplastic syndromes
KW - Signal antonymy
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U2 - 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.01937.x
DO - 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.01937.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 10848828
AN - SCOPUS:0034038687
SN - 0007-1048
VL - 109
SP - 376
EP - 381
JO - British Journal of Haematology
JF - British Journal of Haematology
IS - 2
ER -