PMID- 19220423 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090702 LR - 20161125 IS - 1600-0609 (Electronic) IS - 0902-4441 (Linking) VI - 83 IP - 1 DP - 2009 Jul TI - Monocytic differentiation of leukemic HL-60 cells induced by co-treatment with TNF-alpha and MK886 requires activation of pro-apoptotic machinery. PG - 35-47 LID - 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2009.01240.x [doi] AB - The block of hematopoietic differentiation program in acute myeloid leukemia cells can be overcome by differentiating agent like retinoic acid, but it has several side effects. A study of other differentiation signaling pathways is therefore useful to predict potential targets of anti-leukemic therapy. We demonstrated previously that the co-treatment of HL-60 cells with Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) (1 ng/mL) and inhibitor of 5-lipoxygenase MK886 (5 microm) potentiated both monocytic differentiation and apoptosis. In this study, we detected enhanced activation of three main types of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) (p38, c-Jun amino-terminal kinase [JNK], extracellular signal-regulated kinase [ERK]), so we assessed their role in differentiation using appropriate pharmacologic inhibitors. The inhibition of pro-apoptotic MAPKs (p38 and JNK) suppressed the effect of MK886 + TNF-alpha co-treatment. On the other hand, down-regulation of pro-survival ERK pathway led to increased differentiation. Those effects were accompanied by increased activation of caspases in cells treated by MK886 + TNF-alpha. Pan-caspase inhibitor ZVAD-fmk significantly decreased both number of apoptotic and differentiated cells. The same effect was observed after inhibition of caspase 9, but not caspase 3 and 8. To conclude, we evidenced that the activation of apoptotic processes and pathways supporting apoptosis (p38 and JNK MAPKs) is required for the monocytic differentiation of HL-60 cells. FAU - Prochazkova, Jirina AU - Prochazkova J AD - Department of Cytokinetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, vvi, Brno, Czech Republic. FAU - Stixova, Lenka AU - Stixova L FAU - Soucek, Karel AU - Soucek K FAU - Hofmanova, Jirina AU - Hofmanova J FAU - Kozubik, Alois AU - Kozubik A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20090205 PL - England TA - Eur J Haematol JT - European journal of haematology JID - 8703985 RN - 0 (Amino Acid Chloromethyl Ketones) RN - 0 (Caspase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Indoles) RN - 0 (Lipoxygenase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (NF-kappa B) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 0 (benzyloxycarbonylvalyl-alanyl-aspartyl fluoromethyl ketone) RN - 080626SQ8C (MK-886) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Caspases) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Chloromethyl Ketones/pharmacology MH - Apoptosis/*drug effects/physiology MH - Caspase Inhibitors MH - Caspases/metabolism MH - Cell Differentiation/drug effects MH - Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Enzyme Activation/drug effects MH - HL-60 Cells MH - Humans MH - Indoles/*pharmacology MH - Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/*drug therapy/metabolism/*pathology MH - Lipoxygenase Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - MAP Kinase Signaling System/drug effects MH - Monocytes/*drug effects/pathology MH - NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*pharmacology EDAT- 2009/02/18 09:00 MHDA- 2009/07/03 09:00 CRDT- 2009/02/18 09:00 PHST- 2009/02/18 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/02/18 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/07/03 09:00 [medline] AID - EJH1240 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2009.01240.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Haematol. 2009 Jul;83(1):35-47. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2009.01240.x. Epub 2009 Feb 5.