Characterization of a New Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cell Line for Mechanistic In Vitro and In Vivo Studies Relevant to Disease

Studies of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have yielded substantial progress, however a lack of immortalized cell lines representative of the primary disease has hampered a full understanding of disease pathogenesis and development of new treatments. Here we describe a novel CLL cell line (OSU-CLL) generated by EBV transformation, which displays a similar cytogenetic and immunophenotype observed in the patient’s CLL (CD5 positive with trisomy 12 and 19). A companion cell line was also generated from the same patient (OSU-NB). This cell line lacked typical CLL characteristics, and is likely derived from the patient’s normal B cells. In vitro migration assays demonstrated that OSU-CLL exhibits migratory properties similar to primary CLL cells whereas OSU-NB has significantly reduced ability to migrate spontaneously or towards chemokine. Microarray analysis demonstrated distinct gene expression patterns in the two cell lines, including genes on chromosomes 12 and 19, which is consistent with the cytogenetic profile in this cell line. Finally, OSU-CLL was readily transplantable into NOG mice, producing uniform engraftment by three weeks with leukemic cells detectable in the peripheral blood spleen and bone marrow. These studies describe a new CLL cell line that extends currently available models to study gene function in this disease.     

Dasatinib Inhibits CXCR4 Signaling in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Cells and Impairs Migration Towards CXCL12

Chemokines and their ligands play a critical role in enabling chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) cells access to protective microenvironmental niches within tissues, ultimately resulting in chemoresistance and relapse: disruption of these signaling pathways has become a novel therapeutic approach in CLL. The tyrosine kinase inhibitor dasatinib inhibits migration of several cell lines from solid-organ tumours, but effects on CLL cells have not been reported. We studied the effect of clinically achievable concentrations of dasatinib on signaling induced by the chemokine CXCL12 through its'' receptor CXCR4, which is highly expressed on CLL cells. Dasatinib pre-treatment inhibited Akt and ERK phosphorylation in CLL cells upon stimulation with CXCL12. Dasatinib also significantly diminished the rapid increase in actin polymerisation observed in CLL cells following CXCL12 stimulation. Moreover, the drug significantly inhibited chemotaxis in a transwell assay, and reduced the percentage of cells able to migrate beneath a CXCL12-expressing murine stromal cell line. Dasatinib also abrogated the anti-apoptotic effect of prolonged CXCL12 stimulation on cultured CLL cells. These data suggest that dasatinib, akin to other small molecule kinase inhibitors targeting the B-cell receptor signaling pathway, may redistribute CLL cells from protective tissue niches to the peripheral blood, and support the investigation of dasatinib in combination strategies.     

鼻咽癌CD44抑制表达细胞株的建立

目的:构建CD44新剪接变异体siRNA质粒表达载体,建立CD44新变异体抑制表达的鼻咽癌细胞株.方法:合成CD44新变异体特异性干扰DNA片段,干扰DNA片段亚克隆于带绿色荧光蛋白的pGenesil -1.3质粒表达载体中,双酶切和测序鉴定重组表达质粒载体;采用脂质体将重组表达质粒载体转染入鼻咽癌5 -8F细胞系,进行G418筛选;Western blot分析CD44表达.结果:重组CD44干扰DNA片段质粒表达载体的碱基序列和插入方向正确;细胞转染效率达70％;G418筛选获得GFP表达的单克隆鼻咽癌5 -8F细胞株;Western blot分析表明CD44表达受抑制.结论:建立了CD44新变异体抑制表达的鼻咽癌细胞株,为CD44新变异体在鼻咽癌中的生物学功能提供了基础.     

锦鲤鳍条组织细胞系的建立及其生物学特性

采用组织块移植培养技术,对来源于锦鲤（Cryprinus carpiod）鳍条组织的细胞进行原代培养,建立了锦鲤鳍条组织细胞系,已稳定传代60多次,命名为Koi-Fin。锦鲤鳍条组织细胞为成纤维样细胞,最佳培养基为MEME,最适血清体积分数为10%,最适培养温度为25 oC,群体倍增时间为43.5 h。该细胞经液氮冷冻保藏12个月后采用台盼蓝染色,约（80.21±5.84）%的细胞具有细胞活性,复苏细胞生长旺盛。细胞染色体分析显示,第16代锦鲤鳍条组织细胞的染色体数目为正常二倍体2n=100,第40代细胞的染色体众数为52。病毒敏感性试验结果表明,Koi-Fin细胞系对锦鲤疱疹病毒（Koi Herpesvirus,KHV）敏感,可产生典型细胞病变效应,病毒滴度为107.86±0.51TCID50/mL。针对锦鲤疱疹病毒胸苷激酶（thymidine kinase,TK）基因设计特异性引物进行PCR检测,可扩增出病毒靶基因片段。     

稳定表达人ASB12的C2C12细胞系的建立及鉴定

ASB12(homo sapiens ankyrin repeat and SOCS box containing 12)蛋白含有5个ANK(ankyrin repeat sequence)序列和一个保守的SOCS(suppressor of cytokine signaling)盒结构域,是ASBs(human ankyrin repeat andSOCS box containing protein family,ASB family)家族的成员.人类ASB12基因在成体心肌和骨骼肌组织中特异表达,是成肌分化的候选基因.利用阳离子聚合物转染技术将重组表达质粒pCMV-tag2B-ASB12转染小鼠骨骼肌细胞系C2C12细胞,通过G418筛选、免疫荧光检测、RT-PCR分析、Western blotting检测建立了稳定表达ASB12的细胞系C2C12-ASB12,为研究ASB12在骨骼肌发育及其相关功能提供有用的细胞研究模型.     

人肺癌细胞系HB-99的建立及其生物学特征

利用一例肺鳞癌手术标本通过原代培养建立了肺癌细胞系命名为HB-99。该细胞系呈单层贴壁生长,从相差显微镜和电镜分析具有细胞的多形性,细胞倍增时间为24小时,克隆形成率40%,染色体改变复杂,众数63-65。将细胞移植到裸鼠体内而生长的肿块具有与原始病人手术标本相似的组织形态。免疫组织化学分析,近100%的细胞表达角蛋白17（CK17）,10%的细胞表达波形蛋白（vimentin）。根据该细胞系的生物学特征提示HB-99是一新建立的肺鳞癌细胞系。 Abstract：We have established a human lung squamous carcinoma cell line ,designed HB-99, by culturing primary tumor sample. The cells of HB-99 derived from resected specimen of a male patient with lung squamous cancer. They grew in monolayers and showed cellular morphology by phase contrast and electronic microscopy. The HB-99 cells had a doubling time of 24 hours and a cloning efficiency of 40%. Chromosomal analysis showed complicated rearrangements with a modal number of 63～65. When hetero-transplanted to nude mice, HB-99 grew to form tumor with the same morphology as the original one from the patient. The results of immunohistochemistry suggested that CK17 expressed in almost all cells while only 5%～10% cells had Vimentin. HB-99 is really a newly established cell line of lung squamous carcinoma.     

高转移潜力食管癌细胞株的建立及其生物学特征

目的建立具有高转移潜力食管癌细胞株并研究其生物学特征。方法将食管癌细胞系EC109细胞悬液异位移植到SCID小鼠胃壁,约3个月后或动物濒临死亡时处死,行病理学解剖,将肉眼可见的纵隔淋巴结转移瘤块接种于SCID鼠皮下扩增,然后取小鼠皮下瘤组织块进行细胞培养,得到性状稳定的细胞株NMC109后,用MTT法分析细胞生长曲线,Western bloting法检测与细胞分裂增殖能力密切相关的TopoⅡα表达,酶谱法检测MMP-2和MMP-9的活性,划痕实验和Transwell体外移动实验检测细胞的移动能力。结果与母本细胞EC109相比,所获得的细胞株NMC109其增殖能力和TopoⅡα表达明显增强,MMP-9的活性明显升高,移动能力明显增强。结论获得了具有高转移潜力的食管癌细胞株。     

Third Case of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia in a Carrier of the Inherited Ch1 Chromosome

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia has developed in three siblings who are all carriers of the abnormal Ch¹ chromosome. ³H-thymidine autoradiography showed Ch¹ to be a G₂ autosome, from which the short arm is absent, and not G₁, which is trisomic in Down''s syndrome and which is believed to form the abnormal Ph¹ chromosome. Ch¹ is not of general significance in the aetiology of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, but it must be considered as a possible predisposing factor to leukaemia in the present family.     

Establishment and Characterization of a Highly Tumorigenic African American Prostate Cancer Cell Line,E006AA-hT

Genuine racial differences in prostate cancer (PCa) biology have been considered among the potential reasons to explain PCa disparities. There is no animal model to represent all aspects of human PCa and, more specifically, to be used for PCa disparity research. The lack of a spontaneously transformed in vitro cell-based model system has been a significant impediment to investigating and understanding potential molecular mechanisms, and the hormonal, genetic, and epigenetic factors underlying the biological and clinical aggressiveness of PCa in African American (AA) men.In this study, we established and characterized the E006AA-hT cell line as a highly tumorigenic subline of the previously characterized primary AA-PCa cell line, E006AA. Extensive characterization of the E006AA-hT cell line was accomplished using cytodifferentiation and prostate-specific markers, spectral karyotyping, cell line authentication assays, cell proliferation and migration assays, and in vitro tumorigenesis assays.Spectral karyotyping of E006AA-hT showed a hypertriploid chromosome complement and shared cytogenetic changes similar to its parental cells such as diploid X, absence of Y-chromosomes, numerical gains in chromosomes 5,6,8,10,17,20,21, and marker chromosomes of unknown origin. In addition, E006AA-hT also presented numerous clonal and structural aberrations such as insertion, deletion, duplication, and translocations in chromosomes 1-5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, and 18. The E006AA-hT cell line was shown to be highly tumorigenic and produced tumors at an accelerated growth rate in both athymic nude and triple-deficient SCID mice.Silencing the mutated androgen receptor (AR-599 Ser>Gly) did not affect proliferation (loss-of-function), but decreased migration (gain-of-function) in E006AA-hT and its parental cell type. These data support that AR-point mutations may lead simultaneously to different “loss-of-function” and “gain-of-function” phenotypes in PCa cells. E006AA-Par and its subline as the only available spontaneously transformed low- and highly-tumorigenic primary AA-PCa cell lines could be used for basic and translational research aimed in supporting prostate cancer disparity research.     

家蚕胚胎细胞系BmE-SWU1的建立及其生物学特性

对家蚕反转期胚胎组织进行一年多的原代培养,分离筛选出了高繁殖细胞群体,建立了BmE-SWU1细胞系。该细胞系以梭形和近圆形细胞为主,杂以少量多突起和巨型细胞。细胞系的倍增时间在28℃时为57.6h,染色体呈短杆状或颗粒状,染色体数目异倍化,具有典型鳞翅目昆虫细胞系的染色体特征。BmE-SWU1细胞系对家蚕核型多角体病毒(BmNPV)高度敏感,半数组织培养感染剂量(TCID50)为2.92415×10-7。     

Insulin Growth Factor 1 Receptor Expression Is Associated with NOTCH1 Mutation,Trisomy 12 and Aggressive Clinical Course in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

IGF1R is emerging as an important gene in the pathogenesis of many solid and haematological cancers and its over-expression has been reported as frequently associated with aggressive disease and chemotherapy resistance. In this study we performed an investigation of the role of IGF1R expression in a large and representative prospective series of 217 chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients enrolled in the multicentre O-CLL1 protocol (clinicaltrial.gov #NCT00917540). High IGF1R gene expression was significantly associated with IGHV unmutated (IGHV-UM) status (p<0.0001), high CD38 expression (p<0.0001), trisomy 12 (p<0.0001), and del(11)(q23) (p=0.014). Interestingly, higher IGF1R expression (p=0.002) characterized patients with NOTCH1 mutation (c.7541_7542delCT), identified in 15.5% of cases of our series by next generation sequencing and ARMS-PCR. Furthermore, IGF1R expression has been proven as an independent prognostic factor associated with time to first treatment in our CLL prospective cohort. These data suggest that IGF1R may play an important role in CLL biology, in particular in aggressive CLL clones characterized by IGHV-UM, trisomy 12 and NOTCH1 mutation.     

Establishment and Partial Characterization of a Continuous Human Malignant Glioma Cell Line: NG97

1. A human glioma cell line, NG97, was established from tissue obtained from a patient diagnosed with a grade III astrocytoma.2. The NG97 cell line has been subcultured for more than 100 passages in standard culture media without feeder layer or collagen coatings.3. NG97 cells grow in vitro as two subpopulations with distinct morphological appearance: stellate cells with pleomorphic nuclei, and small round cells with few processes. The cells have a doubling time of about 72 h and a plating efficiency of 1%. The injection of NG97 cells into congenitally athymic mice induced the formation of solid tumor masses that could be retransplanted every 4 weeks. The cells obtained from tumor mass when cultivated in vitro had a morphology comparable to those of the initial culture.4. This cell line may prove useful for cellular and molecular studies as well as in studies of gliomas treatment.     

Establishment and Characterization of a Nontumorigenic Cell Line Derived from a Human Hepatocellular Adenoma Expressing Hepatocyte-Specific Markers

In the present study the establishment and characterization of a nontumorigenic liver epithelial cell line (HACL-1) derived from a human hepatocellular adenoma is described. The HACL-1 cells have a finite life span (i.e., they proliferate for a period of 2 months and then senesce), show cell–cell contact inhibition, do not grow in soft agar, are not tumorigenic when injected in nude mice, and possess a normal diploid karyotype. The cultured cells resemble hepatocytes, but exhibit some features of dedifferentiation. At the ultrastructural level the cells are endowed with round or oval nuclei, abundant cytoplasmic organelles, and varying amounts of glycogen. The rough endoplasmic reticulum is disorganized, while peroxisomes and matrix granules within mitochondria are lacking. HACL-1 cells are cytokeratin 18-positive as well as (transiently) albumin- and α-fetoprotein-positive, but do not express cytokeratin 19. Furthermore, no mutations were observed in exons 5–8 of the tumor suppressor genep53.Taken together these results show that HACL-1 cells are nontumorigenic proliferating liver epithelial cells, which might prove to be of great value in future studies on diverse aspects of human liver cell biology and carcinogenesis.     

可诱导的稳定表达Spata3细胞系的建立及特征

spata3是一个在睾丸中特异性表达的基因,可能与精子发生或生精细胞凋亡相关.为了进一步研究Spata3的功能,将spata3克隆入经修饰的pcDNA5/FRT/TO表达载体,应用Flp-InTMT-RExTM-293 细胞系作为拗飨赴? 成功地构建了可被四环素或 Doxycline 诱导的稳定表达 Flp-InTMT-RExTM-sptat3 的细胞系.该细胞系在spata3基因 的3'端有2×FLAG tag和2×Histag,在缺乏可利用的spata3或其抗体的情况下,也能够很容易地应用商品化的FLAG抗体检测到spata3全长蛋白的表达.这种可诱导的稳定表达Flp-InTMT-Rex TM-spata3 的细胞系的建立,不仅有利于spata3的分析鉴定和功能研究,而且对于其他蛋白质的分离纯化和功能研究也有很好的借鉴作用.     

Establishment and Characterization of a New Cell Line of Canine Inflammatory Mammary Cancer: IPC-366

Canine inflammatory mammary cancer (IMC) shares epidemiologic, histopathological and clinical characteristics with the disease in humans and has been proposed as a natural model for human inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). The aim of this study was to characterize a new cell line from IMC (IPC-366) for the comparative study of both IMC and IBC. Tumors cells from a female dog with clinical IMC were collected. The cells were grown under adherent conditions. The growth, cytological, ultrastructural and immunohistochemical (IHC) characteristics of IPC-366 were evaluated. Ten female Balb/SCID mice were inoculated with IPC-366 cells to assess their tumorigenicity and metastatic potential. Chromosome aberration test and Karyotype revealed the presence of structural aberration, numerical and neutral rearrangements, demonstrating a chromosomal instability. Microscopic examination of tumor revealed an epithelial morphology with marked anysocytosis. Cytological and histological examination of smears and ultrathin sections by electron microscopy revealed that IPC-366 is formed by highly malignant large round or polygonal cells characterized by marked atypia and prominent nucleoli and frequent multinucleated cells. Some cells had cytoplasmic empty spaces covered by cytoplasmic membrane resembling capillary endothelial cells, a phenomenon that has been related to s vasculogenic mimicry. IHC characterization of IPC-366 was basal-like: epithelial cells (AE1/AE3+, CK14+, vimentin+, actin-, p63-, ER-, PR-, HER-2, E-cadherin, overexpressed COX-2 and high Ki-67 proliferation index (87.15 %). At 2 weeks after inoculating the IPC-366 cells, a tumor mass was found in 100 % of mice. At 4 weeks metastases in lung and lymph nodes were found. Xenograph tumors maintained the original IHC characteristics of the female dog tumor. In summary, the cell line IPC-366 is a fast growing malignant triple negative cell line model of inflammatory mammary carcinoma that can be used for the comparative study of both IMC and IBC.     

Establishment and Characterization of a Highly Tumourigenic and Cancer Stem Cell Enriched Pancreatic Cancer Cell Line as a Well Defined Model System

Standard cancer cell lines do not model the intratumoural heterogeneity situation sufficiently. Clonal selection leads to a homogeneous population of cells by genetic drift. Heterogeneity of tumour cells, however, is particularly critical for therapeutically relevant studies, since it is a prerequisite for acquiring drug resistance and reoccurrence of tumours. Here, we report the isolation of a highly tumourigenic primary pancreatic cancer cell line, called JoPaca-1 and its detailed characterization at multiple levels. Implantation of as few as 100 JoPaca-1 cells into immunodeficient mice gave rise to tumours that were histologically very similar to the primary tumour. The high heterogeneity of JoPaca-1 was reflected by diverse cell morphology and a substantial number of chromosomal aberrations. Comparative whole-genome sequencing of JoPaca-1 and BxPC-3 revealed mutations in genes frequently altered in pancreatic cancer. Exceptionally high expression of cancer stem cell markers and a high clonogenic potential in vitro and in vivo was observed. All of these attributes make this cell line an extremely valuable model to study the biology of and pharmaceutical effects on pancreatic cancer.