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Toll-like receptor 9 stimulation can induce I?B? expression and IgM secretion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells.

ABSTRACT: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells strongly depend on external stimuli for their survival. Both antigen receptor and co-stimulatory receptors, including Toll-like receptors, can modulate viability and proliferation of leukemic cells. Toll-like receptor ligands, and particularly the TLR9 ligand CpG, mediate heterogeneous responses in patients' samples reflecting the clinical course of the subjects. However, the molecular framework of the key signaling events underlying such heterogeneity is undefined. We focused our studies on a subset of chronic lymphocytic leukemia cases characterized by expression of CD38 and unmutated immunoglobulin genes, who respond to CpG with enhanced metabolic cell activity. We report that, while CpG induces NFKBIZ mRNA in all the samples analyzed, it induces the I?B? protein in a selected group of cases, through an unanticipated post-transcriptional mechanism. Interestingly, I?B? plays a causal role in sustaining CpG-induced cell viability and chemoresistance, and CpG stimulation can unleash immunoglobulin secretion by I?B?-positive malignant cells. These results identify and characterize I?B? as a marker and effector molecule of distinct key pathways in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC5664394 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Toll-like receptor 9 stimulation can induce IκBζ expression and IgM secretion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells.

Fonte Eleonora E Vilia Maria Giovanna MG Reverberi Daniele D Sana Ilenia I Scarfò Lydia L Ranghetti Pamela P Orfanelli Ugo U Cenci Simone S Cutrona Giovanna G Ghia Paolo P Muzio Marta M

Haematologica 20170803 11

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells strongly depend on external stimuli for their survival. Both antigen receptor and co-stimulatory receptors, including Toll-like receptors, can modulate viability and proliferation of leukemic cells. Toll-like receptor ligands, and particularly the TLR9 ligand CpG, mediate heterogeneous responses in patients' samples reflecting the clinical course of the subjects. However, the molecular framework of the key signaling events underlying such heterogeneity is undef ...[more]

PMID: 28775123

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Toll-like receptor 9 stimulation can induce I?B? expression and IgM secretion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells.

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Toll-like receptor 9 stimulation can induce IκBζ expression and IgM secretion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells.

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