PMID- 24304929 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140926 LR - 20220316 IS - 1479-5876 (Electronic) IS - 1479-5876 (Linking) VI - 11 DP - 2013 Dec 4 TI - Leukemia cells induce changes in human bone marrow stromal cells. PG - 298 LID - 10.1186/1479-5876-11-298 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) are multipotent cells that support angiogenesis, wound healing, and immunomodulation. In the hematopoietic niche, they nurture hematopoietic cells, leukemia, tumors and metastasis. BMSCs secrete of a wide range of cytokines, growth factors and matrix proteins which contribute to the pro-tumorigenic marrow microenvironment. The inflammatory cytokines IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha change the BMSC secretome and we hypothesized that factors produced by tumors or leukemia would also affect the BMSC secretome and investigated the interaction of leukemia cells with BMSCs. METHODS: BMSCs from healthy subjects were co-cultured with three myeloid leukemia cell lines (TF-1, TF-1alpha and K562) using a trans-well system. Following co-culture, the BMSCs and leukemia cells were analyzed by global gene expression analysis and culture supernatants were analyzed for protein expression. As a control, CD34+ cells were also cocultured with BMSCs. RESULTS: Co-culture induced leukemia cell gene expression changes in stem cell pluripotency, TGF-beta signaling and carcinoma signaling pathways. BMSCs co-cultured with leukemia cells up-regulated a number of proinflammatory genes including IL-17 signaling-related genes and IL-8 and CCL2 levels were increased in co-culture supernatants. In contrast, purine metabolism, mTOR signaling and EIF2 signaling pathways genes were up-regulated in BMSCs co-cultured with CD34+ cells. CONCLUSIONS: BMSCs react to the presence of leukemia cells undergoing changes in the cytokine and chemokine secretion profiles. Thus, BMSCs and leukemia cells both contribute to the creation of a competitive niche more favorable for leukemia stem cells. FAU - Civini, Sara AU - Civini S FAU - Jin, Ping AU - Jin P FAU - Ren, Jiaqiang AU - Ren J FAU - Sabatino, Marianna AU - Sabatino M FAU - Castiello, Luciano AU - Castiello L FAU - Jin, Jianjian AU - Jin J FAU - Wang, Huan AU - Wang H FAU - Zhao, Yuanlong AU - Zhao Y FAU - Marincola, Francesco AU - Marincola F FAU - Stroncek, David AU - Stroncek D AD - Cell Processing Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Building 10, Room 3C720, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892-1184, USA. DStroncek@cc.nih.gov. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20131204 PL - England TA - J Transl Med JT - Journal of translational medicine JID - 101190741 SB - IM MH - Bone Marrow Cells/metabolism/*pathology MH - Coculture Techniques MH - Gene Expression Profiling MH - Humans MH - Leukemia/genetics/metabolism/*pathology MH - Stromal Cells/metabolism/*pathology PMC - PMC3882878 EDAT- 2013/12/07 06:00 MHDA- 2014/09/27 06:00 PMCR- 2013/12/04 CRDT- 2013/12/06 06:00 PHST- 2013/11/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/11/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/12/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/12/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/09/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/12/04 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1479-5876-11-298 [pii] AID - 10.1186/1479-5876-11-298 [doi] PST - epublish SO - J Transl Med. 2013 Dec 4;11:298. doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-11-298.