Upregulation of CD54 and downregulation of HLA‑ABC contribute to the novel enhancement of the susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis induced by ATRA plus VPA

  • Authors:
    • Huijuan Zou
    • Lianlian Li
    • Yang Han
    • Ruiping Ma
    • Qiong Liao
    • Jing Tian
    • Xiaoyu Zhang
    • Xia Ren
    • Guanhua Song
    • Qiang Guo
    • Xia Li
    • Huifang Ding
    • Guosheng Jiang
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  • Published online on: November 2, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2016.5212
  • Pages: 105-114
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Abstract

Enhancement of the susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis induced by all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) plus valproate (VPA) was evaluated. In addition to the synergistic effect of ATRA plus VPA on HL-60 cells, the optimal concentration of 1 mM VPA plus 0.5 µM ATRA increased the cytotoxic sensitivity of HL-60 cells to NK cells. The expression of the activated receptors NKp30 and NKG2D on NK-92 cells was higher compared with the levels noted for the other receptors, and the expression of NKG2D ligands MICA/B on HL-60 cells was not significantly upregulated in the ATRA plus VPA goup compared with the control. Moreover, it was observed that the ligands of NKp30 on HL-60 cells presented the same variation trend. As to the co-stimulatory and adhesion molecules on NK-92 and their ligands on HL-60 cells post exposure to ATRA and VPA alone or their combination, there was no obvious change in the expression of CD112, CD48 and CD70 on the HL-60 cells. However, the expression of CD54 on HL-60 cells was significantly upregulated. In contrast, the expression of NKG2A ligands HLA-ABC on HL-60 cells was obviously downregulated. In addition, the expression of HLA-E on the HL-60 cells in the group treated with ATRA plus VPA was not significantly increased. In conclusion, the combination of VPA and ATRA not only induced the differentiation of HL-60 cells, but also induced enhancement of the sensitivity of HL-60 cells to NK cells by downregulating the expression of HLA-ABC and upregulating the expression of CD54, but not MICA/MICB. The results provide experimental and theoretical basis for the clinical combination of a low-dose of ATRA plus VPA for the treatment of leukemia.

Introduction

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive hematological malignancy which seriously endangers human health, is characterized by a blockage of terminal differentiation of primitive hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells at early stages in myelopoiesis, leading to increased proliferation of immature myeloid progenitors (1). In 1986, all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) was approved to treat patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and most patients with APL achieved complete remission (2). Successively, As2O3 was also found to induce differentiation and apoptosis of leukemia cells and caused remission in most APL patients (3,4). Unfortunately, treatments using ATRA or As2O3 have the disadvantages of a high recurrence rate and drug resistance (5,6). Therefore, it is urgent to explore novel agents or their combination to enhance the induction of differentiation or reduce the relapse rate of APL patients.

Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) have been suggested for use as a new type of differentiation-inducing therapy for leukemia (7), and an increasing number of HDACIs used in the clinic including short-chain fatty acids (butyric acid) and hydroxamic acids (TSA and SAHA) were investigated for the treatment of tumors and leukemias. Valproate (VPA) as one of the HDACIs alone or combined with ATRA was used in the treatment of patients with leukemia and achieved good clinical efficacy (817). Yet, it was not clear whether the combination of VPA plus ATRA interfers with the function of immune cells.

Natural killer (NK) cells, the primary effector cells of the innate immune system, play an important role in antitumor and anti-viral infection. NKG2D which crosslinks with its ligands (NKG2DL) is the unique activating receptor of NK cells, which triggers the cytotoxic activity of NK cells. Armeanu et al found that the mRNA and protein of NKG2D ligands in liver cancer cells were increased after exposure to VPA and it may significantly enhance the NK sensitivity of NK-92 cells to HepG2 cells (18), and the enhanced killing effect of NK cells was mediated by upregulation of NKG2D ligands on the tumor cells. Zhang et al also suggested that sodium butyrate (SB) and VPA upregulated the mRNA and protein expression of MHC I molecule-associated proteins (MICA and MICB) in HeLa and HepG2 cells, resulting in the enhancement of sensitivity of tumor cells to NK cells (19). Of the various myeloid cell lines examined, a chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line OUN-1 showed the most prominent upregulation of MICA/B and ULBP2 in response to VPA or hydroxyurea (HU). OUN-1 cells treated with VPA plus HU were more susceptible to be killed by NK cells than untreated cells (20). In vivo administration of ATRA or the histone deacetylase inhibitor sodium VPA to patients with APL or M1 respectively, led to the induction of transcription and expression of NKG2DL at the surface of leukemic cells. Furthermore, upon therapy with ATRA or VPA, leukemic blasts acquire the ability to trigger lytic granule exocytosis by autologous CD8+ T and NK lymphocytes. These findings indicate that ATRA and VPA may contribute to the activation of cytolytic effector lymphocytes in vivo (21). According to the above results, VPA has potential therapeutic effects by enhancing the immune response to leukemia. In the present study, the enhancement of susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis was firstly detected when the cooperation of ATRA and VPA in inducing differentiation was identified.

Materials and methods

Reagents

ATRA was dissolved with a small amount of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and a 10 mM stock solution was prepared with RPMI-1640 medium (Gibco, Grand Island, NY, USA) and stored at −20°C. A 50 mg/ml stock solution of VPA (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) was constructed with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and diluted with cell culture medium for use. Trypan blue, propidium iodide (PI) and carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE) were purchased from Sigma. Annexin V fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) kit was obtained from BD Biosciences (San Diego, CA, USA). Na251CrO4 for detection of NK cell activity was obtained from PerkinElmer. Antibodies for fluorescence-activating cell sorting (FACS) are listed in Table I.

Table I.

Primary antibodies used in the present study.

Table I.

Primary antibodies used in the present study.

NameFluorescentAntibody isotypeCatalog no.Company
CD11b (Mac-1)Alexa Flour 488Mouse IgG1, κ557701BD
MICA/BPEMouse IgG2a, κ558352BD
HLA-ABCPEMouse IgG1, κ555553BD
CD11a (LFA-1)PEMouse IgG1, κ555384BD
CD48FITCMouse IgG1, κ555759BD
CD54 (ICAM-1)PEMouse IgG1, κ555511BD
CD70PEMouse IgG3, κ555835BD
CD85jFITCMouse IgG2b, κ555942BD
CD112PEMouse IgG1, κ551057BD
CD244 (2B4)PEMouse IgG2a, κ550816BD
CD226PEMouse IgG1, κ559789BD
NKG2A (CD159a)PEMouse IgG2aFAB105PR&D
NKG2C (CD159c)PEMouse IgG1FAB138PR&D
NKG2D (CD314)PEMouse IgG1, κ557940BD
NKp30 (CD337)PEMouse IgG1, κ558407BD
NKp44PEMouse IgG1, κ558563BD
NKp46PEMouse IgG1, κ557991BD
HLA-EPEMouse IgG1ab11821Abcam

[i] BD, BD Biosciences (San Diego, CA, USA); R&D, R&D Systems, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN, USA); Abcam, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Cell culture

The human acute APL HL-60 cell line was purchased from the Cell Bank of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China) and was cultured with RPMI-1640 medium. Human natural killer NK-92 cells were conserved by the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, Anhui, China) and cultured in α-MEM medium (Gibco). All of the cells were grown in medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (HyClone, Logan, UT, USA), 100 IU/ml penicillin and 100 IU/ml streptomycin at 37°C in a 5% CO2 humidified atmosphere. Logarithmically growing cells were exposed to drugs for the indicated time periods. Cells (at a density of 2×105 cell/ml) were treated with ATRA at concentrations of 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0 µM, and VPA at 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mM, alone or in combination. Cells treated with 0.1% (v/v) DMSO or RPMI-1640 medium were used as control. The cells were incubated again at 37°C in 5% CO2 and collected after 24, 48 and 72 h.

Effect of ATRA plus VPA on the proliferation of HL-60 cells

The effect of ATRA and VPA on the proliferation of HL-60 cells was assayed by trypan blue exclusion test. Briefly, the cells treated with the drugs as mentioned above were washed with cold 1X PBS buffer, and then re-suspended with PBS buffer. One part of the cell suspension was mixed with one part 0.4% trypan blue dye and incubated for 3–5 min. Cells were added to a cell counting plate after 3–5 min. Dye-cell mixture (10 µl) was loaded to a clean cell counting chamber and stained cells which were the dead cells and unstained cells which were the live cells were counted under a microscope.

Cell cycle analysis

Following ATRA and/or VPA treatment, HL-60 cells were washed twice with ice-cold PBS, and fixed in cold 75% ethanol at 4°C for at least 24 h. Then, the cells were re-suspended with PBS in 0.5 ml of cell cycle buffer (0.38 mM Na-citrate, 0.5 mg/ml RNase A and 20 µg/ml PI) at 4°C for 30 min and analyzed using an EPICS XL flow cytometer with EXPO32™ ADC software (Beckman Coulter, Miami, FL, USA).

FACS assays for the expression of markers on HL-60 and NK-92 cells

The drug-treated cells were collected and washed twice with ice-cold PBS, and then re-suspended with 100 µl PBS. The cell suspensions were blocked with 5% FBS for 30 min and incubated with fluorescent antibodies specific for surface markers including CD11b, CD11a, MICA/B, HLA-ABC, CD48, CD54, CD70, CD85j, CD112, CD244, CD226, NKG2A, NKG2C, NKG2D, NKp30, NKp44, NKp46 and HLA-E or isotype control antibodies for 30 min at 4°C in the dark. The cells were washed twice with cold PBS and re-suspended with 200 µl PBS and analyzed by flow cytometry.

51Cr release assay for NK cell killing activity

HL-60 cells (2×106/ml) were treated with ATRA or VPA or their combination for 48 h, collected and re-suspended with 100–200 µl complete medium. An amount of 200 µl Ci51Cr/106 target cells was added and incubation was carried out at 37°C in 5% CO2 for 1 h and mixed once every 10–15 min. Then, the target cells were washed three times with complete medium and adjusted to 1×105 cells/ml for the subsequent experiment. Then, NK-92 cells were collected and adjusted to 1×107 cells/ml with complete medium. Target and effector cells (100 µl) (v/v=1:1) were seeded on 96-well plates at different cell number ratios (E:T=5:1, 10:1 and 20:1) as the experimental groups. Complete medium (100 µl) or 2% Triton X-100 was added with 100 µl target cells to two different wells as spontaneous and maximum release groups, respectively. The final volume was 200 µl in each well and three parallel wells were established for each group. Each plate was incubated at 37°C in 5% CO2 for 4 h and then centrifuged with 1,500 rpm for 10 min. Supernatant (100 µl/well) was added to RIA tubes, and cpm value was detected with a γ-counter and killing activity was calculated as follows: Cytotoxic activity (%) = (cpm values of the experimental group - cpm value of the spontaneous release group)/(cpm value of the maximum release group - cpm value of the spontaneous release group) × 100%.

Statistical analysis

Data presented are the means ± SD from at least three independent experiments and the significant difference between two groups was compared by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Tukey's test using SPSS 13.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

ATRA or VPA inhibits HL-60 cell proliferation

To determine the effect of VPA or ATRA on proliferation, HL-60 cells were treated with various concentrations of the two types of drugs alone, and then cells were stained with trypan blue for different times. The results showed that the number of living cells was gradually decreased with increasing time (P<0.05) (Fig. 1A), and the number of dead cells was upregulated after ATRA administration. Moreover, the number of living cells was also significantly decreased (P<0.05) after treatment with VPA at 72 h (Fig. 1B), with the upregulation of dead cells in the 2 mM VPA group at the indicated time points. Showing time- and dose-dependence, the results revealed that both ATRA and VPA could inhibit the proliferation of HL-60 cells.

ATRA or VPA influence cell cycle distribution of the HL-60 cells

To investigate the influence of ATRA or VPA on cell cycle distribution in the HL-60 cells, various concentrations of these two drugs alone were used to treat HL-60 cells and cell cycle distribution was detected by FACS with PI-staining at different indicated times. The results showed that the percentages of cells in the G0/G1 and S phases within 72 h after treatment with different concentrations of ATRA had no significant difference when compared with these percentages in the control (P>0.05). However, the percentage of cells in the G0/G1 phase was significantly increased after treatment with VPA in a time-dependent manner, and the percentages of cells in the S and G2/M phases were exactly reverse (P<0.05) (Fig. 2). As a result, VPA was be more effective to arrest HL-60 cells in the G0/G1 phase when compared with ATRA.

ATRA or VPA induce the differentiation of HL-60 cells

After the treatment with various concentrations of ATRA, the expression of CD11b on HL-60 cells was increased within 72 h compared with the control; the effect was particularly significantly at 48 h (P<0.05). The results of VPA treatment were similar to that of ATRA administration, and the expression of CD11b was significantly increased in a time- and dose-dependent manner (P<0.05) (Fig. 3). The results indicated that both ATRA and VPA could effectively induce differentiation of HL-60 cells.

Combination of ATRA and VPA synergistically induce HL-60 differentiation

In order to detect the cooperative effect of ATRA and VPA, HL-60 cells were treated with various concentrations of ATRA and VPA alone or in combination for 48 h. The results showed that the expression of CD11b was increased both in the ATRA and VPA alone groups and the combined groups (P<0.05) Specifically, the increase noted in the combined groups was more significantly than that of the ATRA and VPA alone groups and control groups (P<0.05), particularly for the VPA 1 mM plus ATRA 0.1 µM and VPA 1 mM plus ATRA 0.5 µM combination groups (Fig. 4). This suggested that the two drugs alone and had a synergic effect on the induction of HL-60 differentiation. Therefore, in the next study, we chose the VPA 1 mM plus ATRA 0.5 µM group as the model for detecting the sensitivity of HL-60 cells to NK cells.

Enhanced NK cell killing effect of HL-60 cells by ATRA plus VPA

To investigate the mechanisms underlying the effect of ATRA plus VPA on HL-60 cells, the killing effect of NK-92 cells on HL-60 cells was detected by FACS after treatment with ATRA and VPA alone or their combination. HL-60 cells were labeled by CFSE and dead cells by PI. HL-60 cells that were double-labeled by CFSE and PI were the cells killed by NK-92 cells. Our results showed that the proportion of double-labeled cells was greater with an increasing ratio of NK-92 to HL-60 cells and was significant higher in the ATRA and VPA alone groups than that of the control. This indicated that there was an obvious effect of NK-92 cells on HL-60 cells with an increasing E:T ratio. Moreover, the percentage of double-labeled cells treated with the two drugs in combination at the ratio 20:1 of NK-92 to HL-60 cells was 62.28%, which was >19.79% of the control (Fig. 5A). The percentage of cytotoxicity in the VPA 1 mM plus ATRA 0.5 µM combined group was the highest compared with ATRA and VPA alone or control groups (P<0.01) (Fig. 5B). In regards to the enhancment of the sensitivity of leukemia cells to the killing effects of the NK cells, ATRA was more effective than VPA. Following analysis of the effect of the E:T ratio in the ATRA, VPA or their combined group, the range of 5:1 to 20:1 with E:T was found to gradually increase the ability of NK cells to kill HL-60 cells according to each of the three groups. More specifically, the most obvious increase was at the ratio of 20:1 of E:T; the cytotoxicity in the combination group at this ratio achieved 62.28%. From the analysis of the different groups, in the range of 5:1 to 20:1, the cytotoxic activity of NK cells on HL-60 cells in the combination group was significantly higher than that of the single ATRA or VPA group. Furthermore, compared with the control group, ATRA alone, but not the VPA group also had a significant effect on the NK cell activity in the HL-60 cells. Therefore, the combination of ATRA plus VPA should be an ideal way to maintain or promote the susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis.

ATRA and VPA regulate the expression of MHC-I class-related molecules on HL-60 cells

In order to verify whether ATRA and VPA enhance the sensitivity of NK cells by increasing the activation of NK cell activating receptors on NK-92 cells and their ligands on HL-60 cells, we first detected the expression of the activated receptors on NK-92 cells by FACS, including natural cell stimulatory receptors (NCR: NKp46, NKp44 and NKp30), NKG2D and NKG2C. The expression of NKp30 and NKG2D was higher than that of the others (Fig. 6A). However, the expression of ligands corresponding to the receptors on the HL-60 cell surface was different (Fig. 6B). The expression of MICA/B which is one type of ligand of NKG2D on HL-60 cells was significantly increased after VPA treatment alone, but was decreased after ATRA administration only, contrary to each other. Nevertheless, no significant upregulation or downregulation of MICA/MICB was found in the ATRA plus VPA group compared with that of the control. In addition, the expression of ligands of NKp30 on the HL-60 cell surface was not significantly increased (Fig. 6B). The results indicated that MICA/MICB was not chiefly involved in the enhancement of sensitivity of HL-60 cells to NK cells.

ATRA and VPA upregulate the expression of CD54 on HL-60 cells

Next, we analyzed the co-stimulatory and adhesion molecules on NK-92 and their ligands on HL-60 cells. It was found that the expression of CD244 (99.72%) and CD11a (99.14%) was higher among CD226, 2B4 (CD244), CD11a and CD27 on the NK-92 cells. Moreover, the expression of CD112, CD48 and CD70 on the HL-60 cells corresponding to CD226, 2B4 (CD244) and CD27 on NK-92 cells had no obvious change after exposure to ATRA and VPA alone or their combination. However, the expression of CD54 on HL-60 cells corresponding to CD11a on NK-92 cells was significantly improved (Fig. 7). These results indicated that the effect of NK cells on HL-60 cells was more likely to be enhanced due to the upregulation of CD54 on HL-60 cells and high level of CD11a on NK cells after exposure to ATRA and/or VPA administration.

ATRA and VPA decrease the expression of NK cell inhibitory receptor ligands HLA-ABC, but slightly increase HLA-E on the HL-60 cell surface

The levels of inhibitory receptor NKG2A and CD85j which are mainly expressed on NK-92 cells were 62.44 and 13.97%, respectively, as determined by FACS analysis. As compared with the control group, the expression of MHC class I molecule HLA-ABC on HL-60 cells was significantly reduced and upregulated by ATRA or VPA, respectively, and still reduced by its combination with ATRA plus VPA. In contrast, as compared with the control group, the expression of HLA-E on HL-60 cells was slightly increased and upregulated after treatment with ATRA or VPA alone, respectively (Fig. 8), while no obvious change was noted in the ATRA plus VPA group. Therefore, HLA-ABC expression was obviously downregulated by exposure to ATRA plus VPA, and the suppression of HLA-E did not significantly change after treatment with ATRA plus VPA.

Discussion

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by a block of terminal differentiation of the primary hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells at early stages in myelopoiesis (1). However, the classical chemotherapy, ATRA was approved to treat patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and most of the patients with APL achieved complete remissions in 1986 (2). Yet, the treatment of ATRA still has some disadvantages such as high recurrence rate and drug resistance (5,6). Therefore, new novel agents or combination of different drugs were identified to enhance the induction of differentiation and function of immune cells to reduce the relapse rate of APL patients. It was proposed that histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) are a new type of differentiation-inducing therapy for leukemia (7), VPA as one of the HDACIs alone or in combined with ATRA has been used for the treatment of leukemia, and has achieved good clinical efficacy (817). However, it is not clear whether the combination of VPA plus ATRA interfers with the function of immune cells.

VPA, one type of HDACIs, is a short-chain fatty acid used for the clinical treatment of epilepsy with small toxic side-effects (2224) and plays a role in the treatment of AML alone or in combined with ATRA or other anti-leukemia agents (12). Previous studies have reported that VPA induced apoptosis and differentiation of leukemia cells and the underlying mechanisms are associated with various oncogenes, tumor-suppressor genes or specific fusion genes in AML (25,26). In the present study, various parameters of HL-60 cells, including proliferation, cell cycle, apoptosis and differentiation, were analyzed in order to re-examine the effect of VPA and/or ATRA on HL-60 cells. The results were consistent with previous studies (27,28) and indicated that ATRA or VPA could significantly inhibit the proliferation of HL-60 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. To determine whether the effect of ATRA or VPA on HL-60 cells was associated with cell cycle arrest, we performed cell cycle analysis by flow cytometry. As a result, VPA alone induced a significant cell accumulation in the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle with a parallel decrease in the S and G2/M phases after treatment for 24 h, and the result was similar to studies by Vrba et al (29). To further investigate whether the effect of these agents on cell growth arrest is associated with differentiation, FACS assay was performed. The results showed that the treatment of ATRA and VPA alone induced the differentiation of HL-60 cells. The combination of ATRA and VPA further augmented the differentiation activity as compared to that of each agent alone. Similar to our results, previous studies demonstrated that VPA induced differentiation in not only HL-60 cells, but also in NB4 and U937 cells, although there were some differences in the induction of differentiation among these leukemia cells (16,26). Kosugi et al also demonstrated that trichostatin A, another HDACi, synergistically induced the differentiation in NB4 and HL-60 cells as well as their ATRA-resistant sublines in combination with ATRA (7). Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that VPA induced differentiation in PML-RARα and promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger protein (PLZF)-RARα-transformed mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells, and enhanced ATRA-induced differentiation in these cells (15). Thus, these findings suggest that differentiation-inducing activities of these reagents do not appear to be only associated with a specific cytogenetic subtype of AML, and a larger scale study must be launched in order to draw a solid conclusion (16).

In previous studies, it was demonstrated that ATRA or VPA alone could induce differentiation of leukemia cells, and each of these agents also enhanced the susceptibility of leukemia cells to NK cells by upregulating NKG2D ligands MICA/MICB. However, the role of their combination in modulating the function of NK cells and the underlying mechanism had not been elucidated. Generally, NK cells play an important role in antitumor and anti-viral infection, and NKG2D which crosslinks with its ligands (NKG2DL) is the unique activating receptor of NK cells, which may trigger cytotoxic activity of NK cells. VPA significantly enhanced the NK sensitivity of HepG2 (18), HeLa, HepG2 (19) or leukemia cells, and the enhancement by VPA was related to the upregulation of MHC I molecule-associated proteins (MICA and MICB) (20,21).

In the present study, ATRA and VPA alone inhibited the proliferation of HL-60 cells. They could induced a slight G0/G1 phase arrest and significant differentiation induction. We also demonstrated that treatment of HL-60 cells with the combination of 0.5 µM ATRA and 1 mM VPA for 48 h enhanced the sensitivity of the HL-60 cells to the killing effect of the NK cells (Fig. 5). The notion supported by several previous studies showed that combined ATRA and VPA-induced differentiation of APL cells may be mediated by NK cells (21,30). The expression of NK activating and inhibitory receptor ligands on the HL-60 cell surface was analyzed for their underlying mechanisms. The combination of these two agents increased sensitivity of HL-60 cells to the killing effects of NK cells by downregulating expression of HLA-ABC and upregulating expression of CD54, but not MICA/B (Fig. 9), which was not found in previous studies (20,21). These results provide experimental and clinical basis for the treatment of patients with APL with a combination of low-dose ATRA and VPA, which could induce obvious differentiation and maintain a higher level of function of NK cells.

Acknowledgements

The present study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 81101605, 81172792 and 81573467), the ‘Twelfth Five-Year’ National Science and Technology Support Program (2013BAI07B02), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (ZR2015YL028 and 2015ZRC03102), the Project for Laureate of Taishan Scholar (no. ts201511075) and the Innovation Project of Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences.

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Zou H, Li L, Han Y, Ma R, Liao Q, Tian J, Zhang X, Ren X, Song G, Guo Q, Guo Q, et al: Upregulation of CD54 and downregulation of HLA‑ABC contribute to the novel enhancement of the susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis induced by ATRA plus VPA. Oncol Rep 37: 105-114, 2017
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Zou, H., Li, L., Han, Y., Ma, R., Liao, Q., Tian, J. ... Jiang, G. (2017). Upregulation of CD54 and downregulation of HLA‑ABC contribute to the novel enhancement of the susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis induced by ATRA plus VPA. Oncology Reports, 37, 105-114. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2016.5212
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Zou, H., Li, L., Han, Y., Ma, R., Liao, Q., Tian, J., Zhang, X., Ren, X., Song, G., Guo, Q., Li, X., Ding, H., Jiang, G."Upregulation of CD54 and downregulation of HLA‑ABC contribute to the novel enhancement of the susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis induced by ATRA plus VPA". Oncology Reports 37.1 (2017): 105-114.
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Zou, H., Li, L., Han, Y., Ma, R., Liao, Q., Tian, J., Zhang, X., Ren, X., Song, G., Guo, Q., Li, X., Ding, H., Jiang, G."Upregulation of CD54 and downregulation of HLA‑ABC contribute to the novel enhancement of the susceptibility of HL-60 cells to NK cell-mediated cytolysis induced by ATRA plus VPA". Oncology Reports 37, no. 1 (2017): 105-114. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2016.5212