Abstract
We previously reported that injection of recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) suppressed the development of leukemia in mice transplanted with C2M-A5 (C2M) myeloid leukemia cells and that the anti-leukemic effect of G-CSF was ascribed to the induction of apoptosis of C2M cells. These observations make a striking contrast with other previous reports on the biological activities of G-CSF. In the present study, in order to further clarify the G-CSF-induced apoptosis of C2M cells, we studied the effects of G-CSF on the cell cycle as well as the molecular events involving D-type cyclines and their cyclin-dependent kinases (cdk) in G-CSF-treated C2M cells. Cell cycle analysis revealed that G-CSF treatment of C2M cells resulted in accelerated entry from the first gap (G 1) phase into the DNA synthesis (S) phase. Western blotting disclosed that G-CSF treatment resulted in down-regulation of cyclin D2 and cdk2 and up-regulation of cyclin D1 and cdk4. The reciprocal relationship between the up-regulation of cyclin D1 and down-regulation of cyclin D2 was closely associated with accelerated entry into S phase and subsequent apoptosis of C2M cells. These results suggest that G-CSF-induced apoptosis of C2M cells might be ascribed to imbalanced cell cycle progression due to deregulated expression of d-type cyclins and their cdks.
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