Constitutive endonuclease to induce high molecular weight or internucleosomal DNA fragmentation in freshly isolated leukemia cells.
CANCER LETTERS(1997)
Abstract
Using an autodigestion method, we investigated endogenous endonuclease(s) in leukemia cells freshly obtained from pediatric patients with various types of leukemia. Endonucleolytic activity was found to cause both high molecular weight and internucleosomal DNA fragmentation at a neutral pH in whole cell lysates of all common acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL) blasts, which was Mg2+-dependent and Ca2+-independent, Whole lysates from most acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) cells possessed similar endonuclease activity, but both Mg2+ and Ca2+ were required for the activity. Our results suggest that leukemia cells of different lineages have distinct constitutive endonucleases, which may play a role in the occurrence of apoptosis in these cells. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
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apoptosis,leukemia cells,high molecular weight DNA fragmentation,internucleosomal DNA fragmentation,endonuclease
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