Aka Interleukin 6 receptor
Continuous expression of IL-6 and CD130, ligands for CD126, causes hypergammaglobulinemia, glomeruloproliferative nephritis and lymphoid infiltration in some organs
Dysregulated stimulation may cause myeloma and plasmacytoma
Positive staining (normal): T cells, monocytes, activated B cells, hepatocytes
CD127
Aka Interleukin 7 receptor
Positive staining (normal): B cell precursors, most T cells, monocytes
CDw128a
Aka Interleukin 8 receptor alpha subunit, CXCR1
Chemokine receptor, powerful neutrophil chemotactic factor
Positive staining (normal): neutrophils, basophils, T cell subset, monocytes, keratinocytes
CDw128b
Aka Interleukin 8 receptor beta subunit, CXCR2
Chemokine receptor, powerful neutrophil chemotactic factor, particularly to sites of inflammation
Binds multiple CXC chemokines including IL-8
Positive staining (normal): mature granulocytes, projection neurons, neuroendocrine cells (various)
Positive staining (tumors): carcinoids, atypical carcinoids, metastatic carcinoids, pituitary adenomas, pheochromocytomas, medullary carcinomas
Negative staining: small cell carcinoma of lung/cervix, large cell lung neuroendocrine carcinoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, neuroblastoma, melanoma
CD129
Reserved for Interleukin 9 receptor
CD130
Aka gp 130
Required for transducing biological activities of interleukin-6, interleukin-11, leukemia inhibitory factor, ciliary neurotrophic factor, oncostatin M, and cardiotrophin-1
In human, IL-6 and oncostatin M dependent activation of gp130 are involved in multiple myeloma
Positive staining (normal): almost all cell types (low levels)
CDw131
Aka common beta subunit
Does not bind any cytokine by itself, but is a component of the high affinity IL-3, GM-CSF and IL-5 receptors
Defective CDw131 is associated with protein alveolar proteinosis
Positive staining (normal): myeloid (early and mature), early B cells
CD132
Aka common cytokine receptor gamma chain - receptor for IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9 and IL-15
Mutation in humans causes X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (no T cells, no NK cells)
CD132 is a target molecule for gene therapy for X-SCID
Positive staining (normal): T cells, B cells, NK cells, monocytes/macrophages, neutrophils
CD133
Aka prominin-like 1, AC 133
Alternative to CD34 in selecting hemopoietic stem and progenitor cells for transplantation studies
Localized to microvilli and other plasma membrane protrusions
Positive staining (normal): CD34 bright hemopoietic stem and progenitor cells, neural and endothelial stem cells, other primitive cells such as retina, villous and extravillous cytotrophoblast, syncytiotrophoblast
Positive staining (tumors): retinoblastoma, hemangioblasts, developing epithelium
Negative staining: adult epithelial tissue, villous stroma
CD134
Aka tax-transcriptionally activated glycoprotein 1 receptor, OX40 antigen, lymphoid activation antigen
CD135
Aka FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3, flt3
Growth factor receptor for early hemopoietic progenitors
Positive staining (normal): multipotential, myelomonocytic, and primitive B cell progenitors
Positive staining (tumors): most AML, ALL and CML
CDw136
Aka macrophage stimulating protein receptor, msp receptor
May regulate ciliary beat frequency in epithelial cells
Positive staining (normal): skin, kidney, lung, liver, intestine, and colon
CDw137
Costimulator of T cell proliferation
Positive staining (normal): T cells, especially CD45RA and CD45R0; also B cells, monocytes, epithelial cells
CD138
Aka heparan sulfate proteoglycan, syndecan-1
Mediates cell adhesion, growth factors; associated with late stage of B cell differentiation
Integral membrane protein is a receptor for extracellular matrix
Loss of CD138 expression is associated with tumor aggressiveness in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of head and neck and larynx; levels also reduced in invasive SCC but not in SCC-in situ
Interpretation: membranous staining
Positive staining (normal): B cell precursors, plasma cells, stratified squamous epithelium
Positive staining (tumors): keratoacanthoma, myeloma, primary effusion lymphoma, pyothorax associated lymphoma
Negative staining: mature B cells, lymphomas (even plasmacytoid lymphomas)
Micro images: plasma cells in Rosai-Dorfman disease
Micro images (AJSP subscribers): primary effusion lymphoma (figure C)
Micro images (Hum Path subscribers): primary effusion lymphoma (figure E)
Micro images (Mod Path subscribers): keratoacanthoma #1 (figure B), #2 (figure B), invasive squamous cell carcinoma
References: Mod Path 2002;15:45; AJSP 2002;26:1363
CD139
Positive staining (normal): B cells, monocytes, granulocytes, erythrocytes (weak), dendritic cells, glomeruli
Negative staining: T cells
CD140a
Aka alpha platelet derived growth factor receptor
CD140b
Aka beta platelet derived growth factor receptor
CD141
Aka thrombomodulin
75kD transmembrane glycoprotein and cofactor for the thrombin-mediated activation of protein C
Marker of mesotheliomas, endothelial cells and coagulation factor
Important fibrinolytic inhibitor, as it decreases the activation of plasminogen to plasmin
Critical for activation of protein C and initiation of the protein C anticoagulant pathway
Plasma CD141 levels are associated with endothelial damage
Interpretation: membranous staining pattern, often focal (cylasmic staining may be artifactual)
Uses:
Mesothelioma vs. lung adenocarcinoma: 64% sensitive, 95% specific for mesotheliomas, but must exclude vasculature; often membranous staining of periphery with isolated papilla; negative staining in sarcomatoid mesotheliomas; considered to have a “secondary” role as other markers are better, Hum Path 2002;33:953
Urothelial carcinomas (positive) vs. renal cell, prostate, endometrial or colonic carcinomas, AJSP 2001;25:1380
Squamous cell carcinomas (positive), AJCP 1998;110:385, AJSP 2003;27:150
Positive staining (normal): endothelial cells, megakaryocytes, keratinocytes, mesothelial cells, monocytes, neutrophils, platelets, smooth muscle cells, syncytiotrophoblasts, synovial lining cells, urothelium
Positive staining (tumors): mesothelioma (epithelioid), squamous cell carcinomas, trophoblastic tumors, urothelial carcinomas, vascular tumors (including angiosarcoma), synovial sarcoma (diffusely positive in 10%, AJSP 2001;25:610)
Negative staining: adenocarcinoma of colon, endometrium, kidney, lung (usually), prostate; sarcomatoid mesothelioma,
Micro images (AJSP subscribers): lung squamous cell carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, mesothelioma (figure 1B)
CD142
Aka coagulation Factor III, thromboplastin, tissue factor
Major initiator of clotting in normal hemostasis and many thrombotic diseases, via complex with factor VIIa
Also binds zymogen factor VII, the inactive precursor form; once bound, a variety of serine proteases rapidly activate factor VII to VIIa via limited proteolysis
Normally absent from all cells in direct contact with plasma
Positive staining (normal): epidermal keratinocytes, glomerular epithelial cells and various other epithelia, adventitial cells of blood vessels, astrocytes, myocardium, Schwann cells, stromal cells of liver, pancreas, spleen and thyroid
CD143
Aka angiotensin-converting enzyme, ACE, peptidyl dipeptidase A
Involved in metabolism of angiotensin II and bradykinin; also cleaves substance P and LH-RH
Patients with high activity have DD genotype, associated with MI, strokes, diabetic nephropathy
Necessary for spermatozoa to bind to egg and associated with better penetration of egg
Positive staining (normal): endothelial cells of small/medium arteries, lung capillary endothelium, proximal renal tubule brush borders, basal ganglia neuropil, granulosa cells, Leydig cells, variable on other cells
CD144
Endothelial-specific cadherin localized at intercellular junctions
Aka vascular endothelial-cadherin precursor, VE-cadherin, cadherin 5
Cadherins are cell adhesion proteins that preferentially interact with themselves in a homophilic manner in connecting cells, thus contributing to the sorting of heterogeneous cell types
Positive staining (normal): endothelial cells, brain


