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Characterization of a novel HHV-8-positive cell line reveals implications for the pathogenesis and cell cycle control of primary effusion lymphoma

Leukemia volume 14, pages 1301–1309 (2000)Cite this article

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Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) represents a peculiar type of B cell lymphoma which associates with HHV-8 infection and preferentially grows in liquid phase in the serous body cavities. In this report, we provide the detailed characterization of a newly established PEL cell line, termed CRO-AP/6. The cell line was obtained from the pleural effusion of a HIV-positive patient with PEL. Its derivation from the tumor clone was established by immunogenotypic analysis. Detailed phenotypic investigations defined that CRO-AP/6 reflects pre-terminally differentiated B cells expressing the CD138/syndecan-1 antigen. Karyotypic studies of CRO-AP/6 identified several chromosomal abnormalities, whereas genotypic studies ruled out the involvement of molecular lesions associated with other types of B cell lymphoma. Both CRO-AP/6 and the parental tumor sample harbored infection by HHV-8. Conversely, EBV infection was present in the parental tumor sample although not in CRO-AP/6, indicating that CRO-AP/6 originated from the selection of an EBV-negative tumor subclone. The pattern of viral (HHV-8 v-cyclin) and cellular (p27Kip1) regulators of cell cycle expressed by CRO-AP/6, together with the results of growth fraction analysis, point to abrogation of the physiological inverse relationship between proliferation and p27Kip1 expression. Also, both CRO-AP/6 and the parental tumor sample display biallelic inactivation of the DNA repair enzyme gene O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) by promoter methylation. Overall, the CRO-AP/6 cell line may help understand cell cycle control of PEL cells, may clarify the relative contribution of HHV-8 and EBV to the disease growth and development and may facilitate the identification of recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities highlighting putative novel cancer related loci relevant to PEL.

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We wish to thank Fulvio Coletto for photographic assistance and Barbara Canal, Paola Ceolin and Ivana Zanette for excellent technical assistance in immunohistochemistry experiments and in situ hybridization studies. This work was supported by Istituto Superiore di Sanità, II Programma Nazionale di Ricerca sull'AIDS – Progetto Patologia, Clinica e Terapia dell'AIDS, Rome, Italy, Fondazione ‘Piera Pietro e Giovanni Ferrero’, Alba, Italy, and ‘Fondazione CRT’, Torino, Italy. DC is being supported by a fellowship from FIRC, Milan, Italy. LF is being supported by the PhD program in Molecular Medicine of the Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy.

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Carbone, A., Cilia, A., Gloghini, A. et al. Characterization of a novel HHV-8-positive cell line reveals implications for the pathogenesis and cell cycle control of primary effusion lymphoma. Leukemia 14, 1301–1309 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2401802

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