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  • Title: Alterations of differentiation, clonal proliferation, cell cycle progression and bcl-2 expression in RAR alpha-altered sublines of HL-60.
    Author: Grillier I, Umiel T, Elstner E, Collins SJ, Koeffler HP.
    Journal: Leukemia; 1997 Mar; 11(3):393-400. PubMed ID: 9067579.
    Abstract:
    All-trans retinoic acid (RA) induces granulocytic differentiation of acute promyelocytic leukemia cells both in vivo and in vitro. In the HL-60 wild-type (WT) early promyelocytic leukemia cell line, granulocytic differentiation appears to be directly mediated by the nuclear receptor RAR alpha. An HL-60 subline resistant to RA (HL-60 R) contains a point mutation which results in a truncation of 52 amino acids at the COOH end of RAR alpha. Cross-talk between differentiation, clonal inhibition of growth and apoptosis was studied using HL-60 WT, HL-60 R, and HL-60 R infected by a retroviral vector containing RAR alpha (LX) as targets, which were cultured with various retinoids, vitamin D3 analogs, HMBA, or DMSO. None of these compounds induced significant differentiation of HL-60 R and HL-60 LX, but they did induce differentiation of HL-60 WT. In contrast, retinoids inhibited the clonal proliferation of HL-60 WT, HL-60 R, and HL-60 LX. Vitamin D3 analogs including KH1060 stimulated the clonal growth of HL-60 R; but they inhibited clonal growth of HL-60 WT and LX. Levels of Bcl-2 strongly decreased in HL-60 WT and LX after treatment by retinoids, while no change in expression occurred in HL-60 R. Neither KH 1060 nor 9-cis RA induced apoptosis of HL-60 R, but these agents did induce apoptosis in HL-60 LX WT. Taken together, we showed that HL-60 R has a global defect in its ability to be induced to differentiate by a variety of pathways, not merely the retinoid pathway. Furthermore, our HL-60 models showed that inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis and differentiation can be dissociated. Clinically, these results suggest that several putative differentiation agents may have anti-cancer (antiproliferative) activities, even though they do not induce differentiation of the cancer cells.
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