A novel, myeloid transcription factor, C/EBP epsilon, is upregulated during granulocytic, but not monocytic, differentiation - PubMed (original) (raw)
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A novel, myeloid transcription factor, C/EBP epsilon, is upregulated during granulocytic, but not monocytic, differentiation
R Morosetti et al. Blood. 1997.
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Human C/EBP epsilon is a newly cloned CCAAT/enhancer-binding transcription factor. Initial studies indicated it may be an important regulator of human myelopoiesis. To elucidate the range of expression of C/EBP epsilon, we used reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis and examined its expression in 28 hematopoietic and 14 nonhematopoietic cell lines, 16 fresh myeloid leukemia samples, and normal human hematopoietic stem cells and their mature progeny. Prominent expression of C/EBP epsilon mRNA occurred in the late myeloblastic and promyelocytic cell lines (NB4, HL60, GFD8), the myelomonoblastic cell lines (U937 and THP-1), the early myeloblast cell lines (ML1, KCL22, MDS92), and the T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines CEM and HSB-2. For the acute promyelocytic leukemia cell line NB4, C/EBP epsilon was the only C/EBP family member that was easily detected by RT-PCR. No C/EBP epsilon mRNA was found in erythroid, megakaryocyte, basophil, B lymphoid, or nonhematopoietic cell lines. Most acute myeloid leukemia samples (11 of 12) from patients expressed C/EBP epsilon. Northern blot and RT-PCR analyses showed that C/EBP epsilon mRNA decreased when the HL60 and KG-1 myeloblast cell lines were induced to differentiate toward macrophages. Similarly, Western blot analysis showed that expression of C/EBP epsilon protein was either unchanged or decreased slightly as the promyelocytic cell line NB4 differentiated down the macrophage-like pathway after treatment with a potent vitamin D3 analog (KH1060). In contrast, C/EBP epsilon protein levels increased dramatically as NB4 cells were induced to differentiate down the granulocytic pathway after exposure to 9-cis retinoic acid. Furthermore, very early, normal hematopoietic stem cells (CD34+/CD38-), purified from humans had very weak expression of C/EBP epsilon mRNA, but levels increased as these cells differentiated towards granulocytes. Likewise, purified granulocytes appeared to express higher levels of C/EBP epsilon mRNA than purified macrophages. Addition of phosphothiolated antisense, but not sense oligonucleotides to C/EBP epsilon, decreased clonal growth of HL-60 and NB4 cells by about 50% compared with control cultures. Taken together, our results indicate that expression of C/EBP epsilon is restricted to hematopoietic tissues, especially myeloid cells as they differentiate towards granulocytes and inhibition of its expression in HL-60 and NB4 myeloblasts and promyelocytes decreased their proliferative capacity. Therefore, this transcriptional factor may play an important role in the process of normal myeloid development.
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