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Granulocyte Colony-stimulating Factor Receptors on Human Acute Leukemia: Biphenotypic Leukemic Cells Possess Granulocyte Colony-stimulating Factor Receptors¹

The Cancer Center [K. S., S. O., N. H., W. I., S. K.] and the First Department of Internal Medicine [C. K., T. T., T. E., K. A., T. O., T. S., M. H., Y. N.], Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) receptors on the gated leukemic blast cells from newly diagnosed patients with acute leukemia or crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia were investigated using flow cytometric detection. Surface marker analysis and cytochemical studies were conducted simultaneously to characterize the blast cells. Among 24 leukemia cases examined, G-CSF receptor-positive blast cells were detected in all 11 cases of acute myeloblastic leukemia even though the percentage range of positive cells was widely variable. On the other hand, they were not detected on the blast cells from patients with peroxidase-negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia with no myeloid surface antigens. However, G-CSF receptors were demonstrated in significant amounts on blast cells from 5 of 8 cases of peroxidase-negative acute leukemia expressing both myeloid and lymphoid surface antigens (biphenotypic leukemia). The percentage of blast cells positive for G-CSF receptors was significantly smaller in biphenotypic cases [33 ± 14% (SD)] than in acute myeloblastic leukemia cases [65 ± 22%] (P < 0.01). The percentage expression of CD13 antigen by blast cells was significantly related to their percentage positivity for G-CSF receptors (rs = 0.50, P < 0.05). These findings indicate that the distribution of flow cytometrically detectable G-CSF receptors on leukemic cells possessing myeloid characteristics may be related to the maturation process.

¹ This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid 02256102, 03252102, and 03670325 from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan and from the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research of Japan (1991).

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.

Received 12/ 9/91. Accepted 3/25/92.

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