Enhancement of transforming growth factor-alpha synthesis in multicellular tumour spheroids of A431 squamous carcinoma cells.

Abstract:

:Multicellular tumour spheroids are cellular aggregates that can be prepared from many types of tumour cells. These three-dimensional structures provide a model for analysing the effects of cell-cell contact and intercellular microenvironments on phenomena such as autocrine regulation of growth factor synthesis. Autoregulation of the synthesis of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) was investigated at the message and protein levels in spheroid and monolayer cultures prepared from the A431 human squamous carcinoma cell line. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) of these monolayer A431 cells had an average surface density of 2.2 x 10(6)/cell. Constitutive expression of TGF-alpha mRNA was an average of 3-fold greater in A431 spheroids than in monolayers, even for densely packed, confluent monolayers. This effect did not depend on hypoxic stress within the spheroids. TGF-alpha protein synthesis was enhanced in comparison with that in monolayer culture, reaching a value of up to 2-fold greater on a per cell basis. These results are discussed in the context of a TGF-alpha/EGF-R autocrine loop operating within cells that produce high local concentrations of TGF-alpha in the three-dimensional architecture of a spheroid.

journal_name

Br J Cancer

authors

Laderoute KR,Murphy BJ,Short SM,Grant TD,Knapp AM,Sutherland RM

doi

10.1038/bjc.1992.34

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-02-01 00:00:00

pages

157-62

issue

2

eissn

0007-0920

issn

1532-1827

journal_volume

65

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