Relationship of queuine-lacking transfer RNA to the grade of malignancy in human leukemias and lymphomas.

نویسندگان

  • B Emmerich
  • E Zubrod
  • H Weber
  • P A Maubach
  • H Kersten
  • W Kersten
چکیده

To elucidate the significance of tRNA modification for human lymphoid maturation and malignant transformation, the amount of tRNAs having guanosine in place of queuosine, i.e., (Q-)tRNA, was determined in several human lymphomas and leukemias by exchanging the respective unmodified guanosine residue for [3H]guanine, a reaction catalyzed by a specific tRNA transglycosylase from Escherichia coli. The amount of (Q-)tRNA in highgrade lymphomas (mean ±SD, 38.64 ±22.81) is substantially greater than that observed in germinal center cell lymphomas (7.15 ±4.0) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia at a favorable prognostic stage (4.63 ±1.84) and in non-neoplastic lymphoid tissues (4.52 ±3.17). In chronic lymphocytic leukemia lympho cytes it increases from stage A to C of the Binet classification: 4.63 ±1.84 (A); 9.25 ±1.45 (B); and 25.87 ±8.9 (C). Increasing values were also observed in representatives of late B-cell dif ferentiation (hairy cell leukemia, 14.8 ±0.4; immunocytoma and plasmacytoma, 21.58 ±4.62). On electrophoresis, a characteristic pattern of undermodified tRNA species was found in some neoplastic cells. Determination of free queuine in neoplastic and non-neoplastic human lymphatic specimens suggests that undermodification of tRNA does not arise from substrate limitation. The results indicate that a de creased queuosine content of tRNA is not a general feature of neoplasms, but it may be important for disease activity and perhaps also for the state of maturation in human lymphomas and leukemias.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cancer research

دوره 45 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1985