INTRODUCTION: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell neoplasm that is mostly incurable due to acquired resistance during the treatment course. Thus, we evaluated expression and release of glucose-regulated protein 78 kDa (GRP78/BiP), an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) based pro-survival chaperone involved in immunoglobulin folding and unfolded protein responses. RESULTS: GRP78 protein expression in the ER and on the cell surface did not significantly differ between MGUS, NDMM and RRMM patients although there was a trend to higher surface expression in RRMM. In bone marrow plasma, the amount of released GRP78 protein was not significantly increased between MGUS-, NDMM- and RRMM patients. MM cells of the three cell lines release GRP78 as full-length protein under apoptotic, but not under acidotic or ER-stress conditions. In necrosis, only proteolytic fragments of GRP78 were detected in supernatants of MM cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS: GRP78 protein expression and plasma levels were quantified in bone marrow aspirates of patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS, n = 29), newly diagnosed MM (NDMM, n = 29) and with relapsed/refractory MM (RRMM, n = 15) by immunohistochemistry and sandwich ELISA. The human MM cell lines U266, NCI-H929 and OPM-2 were used for functional GRP78 release- and processing studies after induction of acidosis, ER stress, apoptosis and necrosis. CONCLUSIONS: Ectopic expression of GRP78 on cell membrane or its release in the microenvironment is not a suitable marker to distinguish MGUS from NDMM and RRMM.

Department of Hemato Oncology University Hospital Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic

Department of Internal Medicine 5 Hematology and Medical Oncology Innsbruck Medical University Innsbruck Austria

Department of Medical Statistics Informatics and Health Economics Innsbruck Medical University Innsbruck Austria

Faculty of Medicine University of Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic

Laboratory for Tumor Biology and Angiogenesis Innsbruck Medical University Innsbruck Austria

Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute Innsbruck Austria

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