ROLE OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-ALPHA (TGF-ALPHA) IN BASAL AND HORMONE-STIMULATED GROWTH BY ESTRADIOL, PROLACTIN AND PROGESTERONE IN HUMAN AND RAT MAMMARY-TUMOR CELLS - STUDIES USING TGF-ALPHA AND EGF RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES

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AHMED, SR
BADGER, B
WRIGHT, C
MANNI, A
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[1] Division of Endocrinology, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey
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10.1016/0960-0760(91)90079-K
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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The biological role of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) in basal and hormone-stimulated proliferation of primary human and rat mammary tumor cells was studied using antibodies against TGF-alpha and its receptor. A monoclonal antibody, MAb-425 against human EGF receptor was added to in vitro soft agar, clonogenic cultures of human breast carcinoma cells under basal and estradiol (E2)-stimulated conditions. The antibody had an antagonist effect on colony growth in 4 of 10 tumors and an agonist effect in 4 (72 and 153% of control). E2-stimulated colony growth in 5 tumors (167% of control) and the antibody blocked E2-stimulation in 3 of the 5. Inhibition of E2-stimulated growth in 3 and basal growth in 4 other tumors by the EGF receptor antibody suggests that endogenously secreted TGF-alpha has a role as an autocrine/paracrine growth factor in constitutive and E2-stimulated tumor cell proliferation in a majority of human tumors. A polyclonal antibody against TGF-alpha was used to study the role of TGF-alpha in E2-, prolactin(Prl)- and progesterone(Prog)-stimulated proliferation of NMU(nitrosomethylurea)-induced rat mammary tumor cells under similar culture conditions. TGF-alpha, E2, Prl and Prog stimulated colony growth equally to 176, 187, 168 and 181% of control. The antibody produced significant and similar inhibition of TGF-alpha and E2-stimulated growth (95 and 83%). In contrast, inhibition of Prl- and Prog-stimulated growth by the antibody was only 24 and 27%. The TGF-alpha ligand antibody did not have an agonist or antagonist effect when added alone. Thus, TGF-alpha seems to be a major stimulatory growth factor mediating E2-induced tumor cell proliferation in rat mammary tumors. It is less important in Prl- and Prog-induced tumor growth and not essential for basal growth in these tumors. We conclude that TGF-alpha is a biologically important autocrine/paracrine growth factor in primary human breast cancer cell proliferation and in E2-induced rat mammary tumor growth.
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