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Cellosaurus publication CLPUB00077

Publication number CLPUB00077
Authors Kadin M.E., Sako D., Morton C., Newcom S.R., Su I.-J.
Title Characterization of a neoplastic T cell line from a patient with cutaneous T cell lymphoma and regressing T cell skin lesions.
Citation Lab. Invest. 58:45a-45a(1988)
Abstract An activated T-cell line has been established as a continuous suspension culture for more than two years from IL-2 stimulated Sezary-like cells in the blood of a 46 year old man with erythroderma and regressing T-cell skin lesions. Cytogenetics of both the cell line and blood mononuclear cells before culture reveals the same marker chromosomes t(8;9) (p21;p24) and t(6;13) (q13;q23). A dermatopathic lymph node two years earlier showed the same t(8;9) and rearrangements of chromosome 6 at q14. Interestingly 6q13 is a common fragile site. The clonal derivation of the cell line was confirmed by T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangement studies showing the same rearrangements of beta-chain genes in the tumor cell line and mononuclear cells of the peripheral blood. The cultured cells, which range in appearance from small lymphoid cells to large multinucleated cells (<10%), express Ki-1 (CD30), Ia (DR), Tac (CD25), T9, and T11 (CD2) antigens. Absence of T3 (CD3) antigen on the cell surface was probably due to lack of transcription for TCR beta chain, since mRNA for TCR alpha and T3-delta, but not TCR beta, was detected in northern blots. Cell conditioned media contained biological activity for transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta which promotes anchorage independent growth of fibroblasts but limits the clonal expansion of T-cells. Exogenous TGF beta in nanogram amounts surpressed by 20-40% IL-2 dependent DNA synthesis of the clinically indolent CTCL-line but did not inhibit growth of L428 cells derived from advanced nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's disease. These results suggest that TGF-beta may be important in the growth regulation of cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. We conclude that this new CTCL-line may be useful for further studies of T-cell growth and differentiation.
Cell lines CVCL_H631; Mac-1
CVCL_H632; Mac-2