Growth factor-independent proliferation of rat mammary carcinoma cells by autocrine secretion of neu-differentiation factor/heregulin and transforming growth factor-alpha.

Abstract:

:Serially transplantable rat mammary tumor (RMT) cells are not dependent on exogenous epidermal growth factor (EGF) and insulin-like growth factor-I for continuous growth in serum-free medium. Previously, we found that conditioned medium obtained from these cells contained EGF-like mitogenic activity and stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of a 185-kDa protein in EGF-dependent mammary epithelial cells. This protein is distinct from the EGF receptor and resembles a 185-kDa tyrosine-phosphorylated protein present in RMT cells themselves. The results of the studies reported here indicate that the tyrosine-phosphorylated p185 detected in growth factor-independent RMT cells and in human mammary epithelial cells exposed to RMT-conditioned medium was activated erbB-2 protein. Partial purification of the activating factor present in RMT-conditioned medium yielded a heparin-binding growth factor with biochemical properties similar to those of neu differentiation factor/heregulin (NDF/HRG). RNA-polymerase chain reaction analysis demonstrated that RMT cells expressed mRNA for NDF/HRG, and western-blot analysis confirmed the presence of the 45-kDa secreted form of NDF/HRG in conditioned medium from the growth factor-independent RMT cells. The biological activity of partially purified rat NDF/HRG was examined and found to be the same as that of the pure growth factor. In addition, we found that RMT-conditioned medium, fractionated on an anion-exchange column and by reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography, contained a potent EGF-like growth factor that was distinct from NDF/HRG. This factor competes with 125I-EGF for binding to EGF receptors and has an apparent molecular mass of 6600 Da. This factor copurifies by high-pressure liquid chromatography with pure transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), and the cells are positive for TGF-alpha mRNA. Thus, growth factor-independent RMT cells also synthesize and secrete TGF-alpha. These results indicate that growth factor-independent cells secrete two growth factors with overlapping biological activities and suggest that autocrine loops mediated by these factors are important in the growth factor-independent proliferation of the RMT cells.

journal_name

Mol Carcinog

journal_title

Molecular carcinogenesis

authors

Ethier SP,Langton BC,Dilts CA

doi

10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199602)15:2<134::AID-MC6>3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-02-01 00:00:00

pages

134-43

issue

2

eissn

0899-1987

issn

1098-2744

pii

10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199602)15:2<134::AID-MC6>3

journal_volume

15

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