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Purine degradative enzymes and immunological phenotypes in chronic B-lymphocytic leukaemia: indications that leukaemic immunocytoma is a separate entity.

Abstract：

:Investigations of the purine degradative enzymes adenosine deaminase (ADA), purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP), and ecto-5'-nucleotidase (5'NT) have been shown to be of value in defining subsets of lymphoid malignancies. We have studied the activities of these enzymes in the circulating malignant cells of 35 patients with chronic B lymphocytic leukaemia and have correlated the biochemical data with immunological phenotypes. Classification of the cases into those without evidence of secretory activity ('true' CLL, 14 patients) and those with cytoplasmic immunoglobulin (CIg) ('immunocytoma'; 21 patients) revealed that immunocytomas are phenotypically and biochemically associated with more mature features. Malignant cells without CIg were characterized by low activities of ADA, PNP and 5'NT. In malignant cells with evidence of secretory activity (immunocytoma), low activity of ADA was also observed, but the activities of PNP and 5'NT were relatively high and approached the range of normal B lymphocytes. The differences in PNP (P less than 0.05) and in 5'NT (P less than 0.01) between these two groups were significant. Phenotypically the cells without CIg were predominantly associated with IgM (+k light chains) as surface membrane immunoglobulin (SmIg) whereas expression of IgG was more often observed in the leukaemic cells with CIg. No correlation between enzyme patterns and the stage of the disease was apparent. Thus both biochemical and immunological criteria show that cases of CLL vary within a range of maturity and that those with CIg might be more mature in the B cell axis. The present study emphasizes the value of purine enzyme studies in defining subsets of B cell neoplasia.

journal_name

Br J Haematol

journal_title

British journal of haematology

authors

Ho AD,Dörken B,Ma DD,Pezzutto A,Hunstein W,Hoffbrand AV

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2141.1986.tb02967.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-03-01 00:00:00

pages

545-55

issue

eissn

0007-1048

issn

1365-2141

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Purine degradative enzymes and immunological phenotypes in chronic B-lymphocytic leukaemia: indications that leukaemic immunocytoma is a separate entity.