PMID- 8193364 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19940627 LR - 20210216 IS - 0006-4971 (Print) IS - 0006-4971 (Linking) VI - 83 IP - 11 DP - 1994 Jun 1 TI - Novel retinoic acid, 9-cis retinoic acid, in combination with all-trans retinoic acid is an effective inducer of differentiation of retinoic acid-resistant HL-60 cells. PG - 3289-97 AB - Recent studies have shown that a high proportion of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) achieve complete remission after treatment with all-trans retinoic acid (RA). Nevertheless, despite an initial good response, most patients that received continuous treatment with all-trans RA relapse and develop RA-resistant disease. The 9-cis RA is a high-affinity ligand for retinoid X receptors (RXRs) and also binds efficiently to retinoic acid receptors (RARs); all-trans RA is a ligand for RARs. Both alone are able to induce differentiation of wild-type HL-60 cells. We found that neither all-trans RA nor 9-cis RA (< 2 x 10(-6) mol/L) induced differentiation of RA-resistant HL-60 cells into either mature granulocytes or monocytes. However, morphologic differentiation of the RA-resistant HL-60 cells was induced by 10(-6) mol/L all-trans RA combined with various concentrations (10(-12) to 10(-6) mol/L) of 9-cis RA. Electron microscopic examination also confirmed that the combination of both retinoids induced RA-resistant HL-60 cells to differentiate to mature granulocytes. Functional analysis of differentiation (NBT reduction activity) confirmed the necessity of both analogs to induce differentiation. Also, expression of myeloid-specific differentiation antigens (CD11b and CD14) as well as migration inhibitory factor-related protein (MRP)-8/14 mRNAs were upregulated only in the presence of both retinoids in a dose-dependent manner. In these conditions 3H-thymidine incorporation was inhibited and numbers of viable cells were decreased, suggesting that all-trans RA with 9-cis RA may inhibit cell growth and induce differentiation of RA-resistant HL-60 cells into mature granulocytes. These studies suggest that 9-cis RA in combination with all-trans RA is an effective inducer of RA-resistant HL-60 cells and may have implications for both the biology of retinoids and clinical treatment of RA-resistant acute myelogenous leukemia, including APL patients. FAU - Kizaki, M AU - Kizaki M AD - Division of Hematology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. FAU - Nakajima, H AU - Nakajima H FAU - Mori, S AU - Mori S FAU - Koike, T AU - Koike T FAU - Morikawa, M AU - Morikawa M FAU - Ohta, M AU - Ohta M FAU - Saito, M AU - Saito M FAU - Koeffler, H P AU - Koeffler HP FAU - Ikeda, Y AU - Ikeda Y LA - eng GR - CA33936/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Blood JT - Blood JID - 7603509 RN - 0 (Antigens, Differentiation) RN - 0 (Calcium-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Calgranulin A) RN - 0 (Calgranulin B) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Receptors, Retinoic Acid) RN - 5688UTC01R (Tretinoin) SB - IM MH - Antigens, Differentiation/genetics MH - Calcium-Binding Proteins/genetics MH - Calgranulin A MH - Calgranulin B MH - Cell Differentiation/drug effects MH - Cell Division/drug effects MH - Cell Survival/drug effects MH - Drug Resistance MH - Humans MH - Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/drug therapy/*pathology MH - RNA, Messenger/analysis MH - Receptors, Retinoic Acid/genetics MH - Stereoisomerism MH - Tretinoin/administration & dosage/*pharmacology/therapeutic use MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured EDAT- 1994/06/01 00:00 MHDA- 1994/06/01 00:01 CRDT- 1994/06/01 00:00 PHST- 1994/06/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1994/06/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1994/06/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-4971(20)78913-5 [pii] PST - ppublish SO - Blood. 1994 Jun 1;83(11):3289-97.