The Journal of Immunology, Vol 148, Issue 3 934-942, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Constitutive versus cell cycle regulation of c-myb mRNA expression correlates with developmental stages in murine B lymphoid tumors

KM Catron, JM Purkerson, PC Isakson and TP Bender
Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908.

The expression of c-myb mRNA is differentially regulated in murine B lymphoid tumors such that B cell lymphomas and plasmacytomas contain significantly less c-myb mRNA than pre-B cell lymphomas. To examine the low level of c-myb mRNA expression in the murine B cell lymphoma cell line BCL1, nonessential amino acid starvation was used to block these cells in a G1 state. When BCL1 cells were released from this block, a 7- to 10-fold increase in c-myb mRNA was detected in late G1 and S phase cells relative to that detected in exponentially growing BCL1 cells. This increase was not inhibited by aphidicolin. To determine whether cell cycle regulation of c-myb mRNA expression occurred during exponential growth in both murine pre-B cell lymphoma and B cell lymphoma cell lines, elutriation was used to separate exponentially growing cell populations. An increase in c-myb mRNA expression was seen in late G1 and S phase fractions from B cell lymphoma cell lines. In contrast, c-myb mRNA levels remained constant in elutriation fractions isolated from pre-B cell lymphoma cell lines. Expression of c-myb mRNA was not detected in exponentially growing or in Go serum-stimulated murine fibroblasts. These results indicate that constitutive vs cell cycle regulation of c-myb mRNA expression is related to the state of differentiation in murine B lymphoid tumors and suggest that a switch in regulation may occur during normal B cell development.

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