Human chromosome 21 determines growth factor dependence in human/mouse B-cell hybridomas.

نویسندگان

  • S B Ebeling
  • H M Bos
  • R Slater
  • W J Overkamp
  • A P Cuthbert
  • R F Newbold
  • M Z Zdzienicka
  • L A Aarden
چکیده

Interleukin 6 (IL-6) serves as a growth factor for mouse plasmacytomas. As a model for IL-6-mediated growth of plasmacytomas, we study IL-6-dependent B-cell hybridomas, which can be generated through fusion of B lymphocytes with a plasmacytoma cell line, e.g., SP2/0. In the present report, we have investigated the peculiar behavior of B-cell hybridomas with respect to IL-6 dependence. We demonstrate that although newly generated hybridomas are IL-6 dependent, many hybridomas lose this dependency at frequencies as high as 50%, shortly after fusion. We speculated that the loss of IL-6-dependent growth is due to the well-known chromosomal instability of B-cell hybridomas. Consequently, loss of IL-6 dependence is the result of loss of a specific chromosome(s). This model implies the existence of an "IL-6 dependency" gene, the loss of which makes hybridomas capable of proliferating in the absence of IL-6. Because SP2/0 is IL-6 independent, the IL-6-dependent phenotype of B-cell hybridomas, and hence the IL-6 dependency gene, must be derived from the B lymphocyte. We have tested this model by generating human/mouse B-cell hybridomas through fusion of human B lymphocytes with SP2/0. We then analyzed the human chromosome content of 10 IL-6-dependent and 14 IL-6-independent subclones. From that analysis we concluded that the presence of human chromosome 21 correlated with IL-6 dependence. This correlation was confirmed by microcell fusion experiments in which a single copy of chromosome 21 was introduced into IL-6-independent hybridomas, resulting in reconstitution of the IL-6-dependent phenotype. We therefore conclude that chromosome 21 carries an IL-6 dependency gene.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cancer research

دوره 58 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998