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Vol. 279, Issue 4, C1189-C1197, October 2000

Expression of P2X7 purinoceptors on human lymphocytes and monocytes: evidence for nonfunctional P2X7 receptors

B. J. Gu1, W. Y. Zhang1, L. J. Bendall1, I. P. Chessell2, G. N. Buell3, and J. S. Wiley1

1 Department of Medicine, Nepean Hospital, University of Sydney, Penrith, New South Wales 2750, Australia; 2 Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QJ, United Kingdom; and 3 Department of Molecular Biology, Geneva Institute for Biomedical Research, 1228 Geneva, Switzerland

Lymphocytes from normal subjects and patients with B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) show functional responses to extracellular ATP characteristic of the P2X7 receptor (previously termed P2Z). These responses include opening of a cation-selective channel/pore that allows entry of the fluorescent dye ethidium and activation of a membrane metalloprotease that sheds the adhesion molecule L-selectin. The surface expression of P2X7 receptors was measured in normal leucocytes, platelets, and B-CLL lymphocytes and correlated with their functional responses. Monocytes showed four- to fivefold greater expression of P2X7 than B, T, and NK lymphocytes, whereas P2X7 expression on neutrophils and platelets was weak. All cell types demonstrated abundant intracellular expression of this receptor. All 12 subjects with B-CLL expressed lymphocyte P2X7 at about the same level as B lymphocytes from normal subjects. P2X7 function, measured by ATP-induced uptake of ethidium, correlated closely with surface expression of this receptor in normal and B-CLL lymphocytes and monocytes (n = 47, r = 0.70; P < 0.0001). However, in three patients the ATP-induced uptake of ethidium into the malignant B lymphocytes was low or absent. The lack of P2X7 function in these B lymphocytes was confirmed by the failure of ATP to induce Ba2+ uptake into their lymphocytes. This lack of function of the P2X7 receptor resulted in a failure of ATP-induced shedding of L-selectin, an adhesion molecule that directs the recirculation of lymphocytes from blood into the lymph node.

extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate; adenosine 5'-triphosphate-induced ethidium uptake; monocyte P2X7; lymphocyte P2X7; B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia


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