आईएसएसएन: 2329-6917
Ashley E Rosko, Karen S McColl, Fei Zhong, Christopher B Ryder, Ming-Jin Chang, Abdus Sattar, Paolo F Caimi, Brian T Hill, Sayer Al-Harbi, Alexandru Almasan and Clark W Distelhorst
The tumor microenvironment is generally an acidic environment, yet the effect of extracellular acidosis on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is not well established. Here we are the first to report that the extracellular acid sensing G-protein coupled receptor, GPR65, is expressed in primary CLL cells where its level correlate strongly with antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family member levels. GPR65 expression is found normally within the lymphoid lineage and has not been previously reported in CLL. We demonstrate a wide range of GPR65 mRNA expression among CLL 87 patient samples. The correlation between GPR65 mRNA levels and Bcl-2 mRNA levels is particularly strong (r=0.8063, p