The Exodus subfamily of CC chemokines inhibits the proliferation of chronic myelogenous leukemia progenitors

• Published in: Blood Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 1506 - 1508
• Main Authors: Hromas, Robert, Cripe, Larry, Hangoc, Giao, Cooper, Scott, Broxmeyer, Hal E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Elsevier Inc 15.02.2000; The Americain Society of Hematology
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Cell Division - drug effects; Cells, Cultured; Chemokine CCL19; Chemokine CCL20; Chemokine CCL21; Chemokines, CC - pharmacology; Colony-Forming Units Assay; Hematologic and hematopoietic diseases; Hematopoietic Stem Cells - drug effects; Hematopoietic Stem Cells - pathology; Humans; Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive - pathology; Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive - physiopathology; Leukemias. Malignant lymphomas. Malignant reticulosis. Myelofibrosis; Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins; Medical sciences; Receptors, CCR6; Receptors, Chemokine; Chemokine; Human; Cell proliferation; Myeloproliferative syndrome; Chronic; Stem cell; Cytokine; Chronic myelocytic leukemia; Hematopoietic cell; Malignant hemopathy; Inhibition
• ISSN: 0006-4971; 1528-0020
• DOI: 10.1182/blood.V95.4.1506.004k41_1506_1508

Chemokines are a family of related proteins that regulate leukocyte infiltration into inflamed tissue and play important roles in disease processes. Among the biologic activities of chemokines is inhibition of proliferation of normal hematopoietic progenitors. However, chemokines that inhibit normal progenitors rarely inhibit proliferation of hematopoietic progenitors from patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). We and others recently cloned a subfamily of CC chemokines that share similar amino-terminal peptide sequences and a remarkable ability to chemoattract T cells. These chemokines, Exodus-1/LARC/MIP-3α, Exodus-2/SLC/6Ckine/TCA4, and Exodus-3/CKβ11/MIP-3β, were found to inhibit proliferation of normal human marrow progenitors. The study described here found that these chemokines also inhibited the proliferation of progenitors in every sample of marrow from patients with CML that was tested. This demonstration of consistent inhibition of CML progenitor proliferation makes the 3 Exodus chemokines unique among chemokines.