PMID: 6979354Jun 1, 1982Paper

Chronic leukemia with a hybrid surface phenotype (T lymphocytic/myelomonocytic): leukemic cells displaying natural killer activity and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity.

Blood
G SchlimokG Riethmüller

Abstract

A patient with chronic leukemia exhibited uncommon clinical features, such as hypergammaglobulinemia and activation of intravascular coagulation after low-dose irradiation of the enlarged spleen. By light and electron microscopy, the leukemic cells resembled large granular lymphocytes. The following markers were simultaneously expressed on their surface: receptors for sheep erythrocytes and the Fc part of IgG; common T-cell antigens as revealed by a heteroantiserum (HuTLA) and monoclonal antibodies (OKT3, T411); antigens shared by cytotoxic/suppressor T cells (OKT8, T811) as well as myelomonocytic antigens defined by the OKM1 and M522 monoclonal antibodies. The leukemic cells showed both spontaneous (NK) and antibody-dependent (ADCC) cytotoxicity, but they did not suppress B-cell differentiation in vitro.

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