Taken together, our results indicate that the inhibition of STAT5 by IL-1β may be a promising treatment strategy to eradicate leukemia stem cells in AML.
This demonstrated that leukemia cell populations usually contain transcripts for IL1beta, TNF alpha, flt 3 and flt 3 ligand in vivo and that transcripts for the other cytokines only appear after the leukemia cells are processed in vitro.
We have previously reported that actin cleavage activity (ACA) by interleukin 1beta-converting enzyme (ICE) family protease was elevated during anticancer drug-induced apoptosis in human leukemia U937 cells.
We have examined the expression of the interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) gene during the granulocytic differentiation of two promyeloid leukemia cell lines, HL-60 and NB4.
IL-1-induced production of IL-2 and IFN-gamma in subclones of human T-cell derived leukaemia HSB.2 cells: regulation by phytohaemagglutinin-mediated (poly)phosphoinositide breakdown and cyclic AMP.
Conditioned media (CM) from a human lung adenocarcinoma cell line expressing interleukins 1 and 6 (IL-1, IL-6), granulocyte (G), macrophage (M), and GM colony-stimulating factors (G, M, GM-CSF) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) were used to stimulate growth of bone marrow (BM) cells from 18 persons with leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, or lymphoma.
These data demonstrate that IL-1 gene (especially IL-1 beta) expression occurs in many primary HTLV-I-infected leukemic T cells raising the possibility that this mediator may play a role in the pathological changes associated with this leukemia.