Release and clinical significance of soluble CD83 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Soluble CD83 (sCD83), a potent immunosuppressive agent, circulates at elevated levels in some chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients. We report that CLL patients with elevated plasma sCD83 levels had significantly shorter (P=0.038) treatment free survival. Culture of CLL cells with solid phase CD83 mAb+IL-4 significantly increases sCD83 release (23-117-fold, P=0.013) and ligation of normal donor PBMC with solid phase CD83 mAb alone induces similar significant increases in sCD83 release (P=0.003). RT-PCR analysis detected the presence of a transcript for sCD83 in 2/3 CLL samples. These results suggest sCD83 release may play a regulatory role in CLL progression.

publication date

  • February 4, 2009

Research

keywords

  • Antigens, CD
  • Immunoglobulins
  • Leukemia, Lymphoid
  • Membrane Glycoproteins
  • Neoplasm Proteins

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 67349093508

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.leukres.2009.01.001

PubMed ID

  • 19195701

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 33

issue

  • 8