Interferon affects nuclear proteins in cells of clinically sensitive chronic myelogenous leukemia patients

Autor: Howard, OM, Talpaz, M, Kantarjian, H, Seong, D, Wedrychowski, A, Paslidis, N, Hester, J, Cork, A, Turpin, J, Lopez-Berestein, G
Zdroj: Blood; September 1990, Vol. 76 Issue: 6 p1117-1130, 14p
Abstrakt: Cytoplasmic protein extracts from chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cells contained an activity that altered the electrophoretic mobility of complexes formed between nuclear proteins and the transcriptional enhancers of interferon (IFN)-inducible genes. Exposure of CML cells to IFN-alpha diminished the effect of the CML cytoplasmic proteins on these nuclear protein-DNA complexes. The presence of clinical responsiveness to IFN-alpha correlated with the sensitivity to the IFN- induced change in the electrophoretic mobility of nuclear protein-DNA complexes. These data suggest that the action of IFN-alpha in CML may be linked to a pathway that can result in posttranslational modification of nuclear proteins.
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