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Original Articles

All-Trans-Retinoic Acid Differentially Regulates Proliferation of Normal and Leukemic B Cells From Different Subsets of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

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Pages 285-291 | Received 13 Feb 2014, Accepted 29 Oct 2014, Published online: 22 Jan 2015
 

Abstract

All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) has been shown to modulate cell growth and differentiation in a variety of tumor cell types, but little is known regarding its precise role in regulation of leukemic B cells from different subsets of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Previously, we showed that IL-21 significantly inhibits the CpG-mediated proliferation of CLL B cells in progressive compared to nonprogressive patients. In the present study, the effect of ATRA (10−7mol/L) on in vitro proliferation and apoptosis of B cells was investigated in 24 CLL patients and 8 normal subjects. Our results showed that ATRA markedly enhanced CpG-mediated proliferation of normal B cells, but it slightly inhibited CpG-induced proliferation of CLL B cells [stimulation index (SI): 105.6 vs. 14.7, P = 0.0001]. Although addition of IL-21 counteracted the proliferative effect of ATRA in normal B cells, it significantly enhanced the growth of tumor B cells in presence of CpG and ATRA. This stimulatory effect was restricted to nonprogressive and unmutated patients compared to progressive and mutated groups, respectively. Our results suggest that ATRA acts differentially on normal and CLL B cells and might have therapeutic implication in patients with progressive disease.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank, Tahereh Shahrestani for her excellent technical support. Ghasem Ghalamfarsa and Farhad Jadidi-Niaragh have contributed equally to this study.

FUNDING

This study was supported in part by grants from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Avicenna Research Institute.

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