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The different inhibiting effect of cholera toxin on two leukemia cell lines does not correlate with their toxin binding capacity

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The murine leukemia cell lines L1210 and WEHI-3B show a very different sensitivity to the cholera toxin (CT).

Thein vitro growth of L1210 is completely inhibited by 10−8 M CT, while WEHI-3B growth shows the same inhibition at 10−11 M.

The analysis of membrane ganglioside pattern of the two cell lines shows that in L1210 cells the major component is the GM1a ganglioside while the monosialoganglioside fraction from WEHI-3B is entirely composed of gangliosides of the ‘b’ series among which GM1b is the more represented. The total cholera toxin binding capacity of the ganglioside extract from L1210 cells is more than hundred fold higher than that of WEHI-3B and this difference is also confirmed by the number of CT receptors/cell and by the binding of FITC-B subunit of CT on the cells. These surprising data are in conflict with the poor sensitivity to CT evidenced by L1210 compared to WEHI-3B cells.

In order to clarify this discrepancy we investigated the cAMP accumulation, the cell viability and the clonogenicity of these two leukemia cell lines following the treatment with CT and forskolin (FRSK).

The treatment of WEHI-3B cells with CT induces a dramatic increase of intracellular cAMP which highly correlates with cell death and the decrease of clonogenicity and this result is partially obtained by the treatment with FRSK, L1210 cells do not evidence significant cAMP accumulation neither with CT nor with FRSK treatment.

These data suggest that the different inhibiting effect of CT on WEHI-3B and L1210 cells does not correlate with their different pattern of gangliosides and the related toxin binding capacity. Further they indicate that the growth inhibition of WEHI-3B cells is closely related with a cAMP-dependent cell killing mechanism, while the inhibition of L1210 growth (produced by high concentration of CT) is mediated by a cAMP independent mechanism.

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  1. Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Milan, Via Pascal 36, 20133, Milan, Italy

    E. Mineo, M. G. Neri & A. Pessina

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    A. Giuliani & E. Calappi

  3. Laboratory of Cell Biology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

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Giuliani, A., Calappi, E., Mineo, E. et al. The different inhibiting effect of cholera toxin on two leukemia cell lines does not correlate with their toxin binding capacity. Mol Cell Biochem 152, 103–112 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01076072

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