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Blood, 15 August 2000, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 1605-1607
BRIEF REPORT
Immune response to the ALK oncogenic tyrosine kinase in
patients with anaplastic large-cell lymphoma
Karen Pulford,
Brunangelo Falini,
Alison H. Banham,
Diana Codrington,
Helen Roberton,
Christopher Hatton, and
David Y. Mason
From the Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
and the Department of Haematology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK;
Institute of Hematology, Perugia University, Perugia, Italy.
Oncogenic anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion proteins
(nucleophosmin-ALK [NPM-ALK] and other variants) are
expressed in many cases of anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) but
are absent from normal tissues. The possibility that ALK proteins are
immunogenic was investigated with the use of an immunocytochemical technique to screen plasma from ALK-positive ALCL on transfectants expressing ALK proteins and by an in vitro kinase assay. Circulating antibodies against NPM-ALK protein were present in all ALK-positive ALCL patients (11 out of 11 cases) studied while 10 patients also had
antibodies recognizing normal ALK protein. Weak antibodies reactive
with NPM-ALK (which may represent anti-NPM autoantibodies) were
detected by the in vitro kinase assay in 3 of the 10 control samples
(but not by immunocytochemistry). The presence of anti-ALK antibodies
may be relevant to the relatively good prognosis of ALK-positive ALCL.
The immunocytochemical technique for detecting anti-ALK activity is
simple and semiquantative and may provide a means of detecting B-cell
responses to other tumor-associated molecules.
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