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Characterization of subpopulation lacking both B-cell and plasma cell markers in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia cell line.

[waldenström macroglobulinemia]

Cancer cells with tumorigenic potential are limited to a small population known as cancer-initiating cells (CICs). To date, CICs have not been identified in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Here, we investigated a candidate of CICs of an indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM), using WM cell line MWCL-1. WM tumor expresses both B-cell and plasma cell markers, CD20 and CD138. When stained with anti-CD20 and anti-CD138 antibodies, MWCL-1 cells were classified into three subpopulations: CD20⁻ CD138⁻, CD20⁺ CD138⁻, and CD20⁺ CD138⁺. When cultured, CD20⁻ CD138⁻ cells yielded all three subpopulations, but CD20⁺ cells did not yield CD20⁻ CD138⁻ cells. Higher reactive oxygen species (ROS) expelling and in vitro colony formation activities were detected in CD20⁻ CD138⁻ cells than in CD20⁺ CD138⁻ and CD20⁺ CD138⁺ cells. When cultured in the absence of serum or with anti-cancer drug, CD20⁻ CD138⁻ cells were resistant to apoptosis. In contrast, CD20⁺ CD138⁺ cells were vulnerable to apoptosis in the same condition. In fact, the immunohistochemical analysis with clinical samples revealed that tumor cells in apoptosis were CD138-positive. The production of all three subpopulations, the efficient ROS expelling and in vitro colony-forming activities, and the resistance to apoptosis suggested that the CD20⁻ CD138⁻ cell might be a candidate of CICs in WM.

Diseases presenting "cancer" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • alpha-thalassemia
  • benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
  • cadasil
  • canavan disease
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • coats disease
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • cowden syndrome
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • erythropoietic protoporphyria
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis
  • hirschsprung disease
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • inclusion body myositis
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kabuki syndrome
  • kallmann syndrome
  • kindler syndrome
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • liposarcoma
  • locked-in syndrome
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • monosomy 21
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • oculocutaneous albinism
  • oligodontia
  • oral submucous fibrosis
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • pendred syndrome
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • proteus syndrome
  • pyomyositis
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • triple a syndrome
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • werner syndrome
  • wiskott-aldrich syndrome
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome
  • x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy

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