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  • Title: Suppression of chronic myelogenous leukemia colony growth by interleukin-4.
    Author: Estrov Z, Markowitz AB, Kurzrock R, Wetzler M, Kantarjian HM, Ferrajoli A, Gutterman JU, Talpaz M.
    Journal: Leukemia; 1993 Feb; 7(2):214-20. PubMed ID: 8426475.
    Abstract:
    Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a cytokine with pleiotropic activities. In normal bone marrow cultures grown in the presence of either granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) or interleukin-3 (IL-3), IL-4 suppresses granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming unit (CFU-GM) proliferation but it enhances the colony-stimulatory effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). We studied the effect of IL-4 on chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) bone marrow or peripheral blood cells from 30 patients using the CFU-granulocyte-erythrocyte-monocyte-megakaryocyte colony culture assay. In several repetitive experiments, IL-4 inhibited CFU-GM colony replication by 24 to 65% in a dose-dependent fashion at concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 10 micrograms/ml when patients' cells were cultured in the presence of erythropoietin alone or with phytohemagglutinin-conditioned medium, GM-CSF, or IL-3. The addition of 100 U/ml of IL-1 beta to the CML cultures partially reversed the inhibitory effect of IL-4. Incubation of CML low-density peripheral blood cells with IL-4 resulted in down-regulation of IL-1 beta and IL-6 production in three of four samples, suggesting that the suppressive effect of IL-4 is mediated by inhibition of IL-1 and by other mechanisms including inhibition of IL-6 production. In contrast to the stimulatory effect exerted by IL-4 on G-CSF-dependent CFU-GM progenitor proliferation in normal marrow, the addition of IL-4 to CML cultures grown in the presence of G-CSF resulted in a divergent effect: suppression of CML CFU-GM in two, stimulation in three, and no significant effect in two CML patients' samples. It is therefore possible that IL-4 may have an in vivo antiproliferative effect in a subpopulation of CML patients.
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