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  • The c-fms proto-oncogene, also known as M-CSFR or CSF-1R, is found on various malignant tumor cells and myeloid cells, and was found to be overexpressed in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL).
  • In the study, M-CSFR signaling was linked to the growth of lymphoma cells, and inhibiting M-CSFR led to increased cell death (apoptosis) in these lymphoma cells.
  • The ATL-T cell line produced M-CSF and IL-34, ligands for M-CSFR, which were also co-expressed in most ATLL cases, suggesting that targeting M-CSFR could serve as a promising therapeutic strategy for ATLL through

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The c-fms proto-oncogene is also known as macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor (M-CSFR) or colony-stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF-1R), and is expressed on several types of malignant tumor cells and myeloid cells. In the present study, we found that overexpression of M-CSFR was present in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) cases. M-CSFR signaling was associated with lymphoma cell proliferation, and M-CSFR inhibition induced apoptosis in lymphoma cells. The ATLL cell line ATL-T expressed M-CSF/CSF-1 and interleukin (IL)-34, which are both M-CSFR ligands. M-CSF and IL-34 expression was seen in ATLL cases, and co-expression of these ligands was detected in 11 of 13 ATLL cases. M-CSFR inhibition suppressed programmed death-1 and -2 ligand in ATL-T cells and macrophages stimulated with conditioned medium from ATL-T cells. Thus, an M-CSFR inhibitor may be useful as additional therapy against ATLL due to direct and indirect mechanisms.

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