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O'Mahoney JV, Brandon MR, Adams TE. Developmental and tissue-specific regulation of ovine insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) mRNA expression. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1991; 78:87-96. [PMID: 1936528 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(91)90189-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) is believed to be involved in the development of the fetus. Northern and dot-blot analysis of RNA isolated from different sheep tissues at various stages of development were undertaken, revealing that the ovine IGF-II gene is expressed as a multitranscript family (6.0, 5.1, 5.0, 4.7, 3.8, 2.9, 2.3, 1.9, 1.6, 1.3 kb). Evidence that the ovine IGF-II gene may be regulated in a developmental, tissue-specific, co-ordinate or independent manner is presented. The developmental profile of IGF-II gene expression correlates with plasma levels (Mesiano et al. (1989) Endocrinology 124, 1485-1491), and suggests that the rapid fall in plasma concentration at term can be attributed to regulation at the transcriptional level. With the exception of the kidney, IGF-II expression was down-regulated at birth in all tissues examined. As in man but not rat, an adult liver-specific transcript was detected and attributed to different 5' untranslated regions in the fetal and adult IGF-II mRNAs. The finding of IGF-II transcripts in all tissues examined supports evidence from other species of autocrine/paracrine roles for IGF-II in the development of the fetus.
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- J V O'Mahoney
- School of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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d'Arville CN, Nouri-Aria KT, Johnson P, Williams R. Regulation of insulin-like growth factor II gene expression by hepatitis B virus in hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology 1991. [PMID: 1847351 DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840130217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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In this study we investigated the regulation of insulin-like growth factor II gene expression to explain a role for this growth factor in concert with hepatitis B virus involvement in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma from cirrhosis. Sections of normal liver and tumor and non-tumor-bearing liver disease tissue were hybridized in situ with [35S]-labeled insulin-like growth factor II oligonucleotide probe. Parallel sections were tested for presence of insulin-like growth factor II polypeptide using immunohistochemistry. To investigate a possible role for hepatitis B virus in insulin-like growth factor II gene expression in hepatocellular carcinoma, results were analyzed against patient seropositivity for hepatitis B virus. Levels of insulin-like growth factor II transcripts in normal liver (n = 4) sections and in those from non-tumor-bearing individuals (n = 10) were so low that specific signal was not detectable above homogeneous tissue background. In contrast, 4 of 8 (50%) of the sections of hepatocellular carcinoma arising from cirrhosis or noncirrhotic chronic liver disease with hepatitis B virus involvement showed increased expression of insulin-like growth factor II messenger RNA transcripts. Up-regulation was observed in cell foci in the hepatocellular regions of the surrounding cirrhotic lobular cells and the fibrous septa. Numerous cell foci were observed in patch distribution in the tumor areas. The level of insulin-like growth factor II messenger RNA transcripts in sections of hepatocellular carcinoma arising from cirrhotic and noncirrhotic tissues obtained from patients seronegative for hepatitis B virus was similar to that of normal liver.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- C N d'Arville
- Liver Unit, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London United Kingdom
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Rogler CE. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of hepatocarcinogenesis associated with hepadnavirus infection. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1991; 168:103-40. [PMID: 1893774 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-76015-0_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- C E Rogler
- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10401
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Ishii DN, Wang C, Li Y. Second messengers mediating gene expression essential to neurite formation directed by insulin and insulin-like growth factors. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1991; 293:361-78. [PMID: 1767737 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5949-4_32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- D N Ishii
- Physiology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523
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Insulin-like growth factors (IGF) I and II are chemically-related single-chain peptides with diverse actions on cellular growth and metabolism. This review will focus on recent information pertinent to the biochemical and molecular biological aspects of these peptides. Three areas will be examined: The structure of the two IGF molecules and their precursors will be analyzed; the complicated anatomy of the IGF genes and their mRNAs will be described; and the multiple ways in which the expression of IGF-I and IGF-II can be regulated will be discussed. Gaps in our understanding of these peptides will be highlighted in the context of opportunities for further investigation in this field.
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- P Rotwein
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
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d'Arville CN, Johnson PJ. Growth factors, endocrine aspects and hormonal treatment in hepatocellular carcinoma--an overview. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 1990; 37:1007-12. [PMID: 2178361 DOI: 10.1016/0960-0760(90)90458-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Several clinical observations suggest that hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC or "hepatoma") may be a hormone-dependent tumour; the apparent relation to anabolic steroids and oral contraceptive preparations, and the striking male predominance particularly among patients with cirrhosis. In many animal models thyroid hormones, prolactin and testosterone stimulate tumour growth, and the latter may enhance the progression of chemically-induced hyperplastic nodules to frank malignancy. In animals and humans, both oestrogen and androgen receptors have been reported in normal and malignant liver tissue though some of the evidence is conflicting and the amounts detected vary widely. From a therapeutic standpoint, we failed to show any advantage from the addition of tamoxifen to adriamycin, in a controlled trial although other workers have, more recently, reported prolonged survival using tamoxifen alone. About 20% of HCC patients receiving the antiandrogen cyproterone acetate showed a clinical response.
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- C N d'Arville
- Liver Unit, King's College Hospital, London, England
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Rotwein P, Hall LJ. Evolution of insulin-like growth factor II: characterization of the mouse IGF-II gene and identification of two pseudo-exons. DNA Cell Biol 1990; 9:725-35. [PMID: 1702294 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1990.9.725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We have cloned the mouse insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) gene as a series of overlapping cosmid and lambda recombinants and have characterized its six exons. The gene extends over approximately 12 kb of mouse chromosome 7 and is located 18 kb 3' to the insulin 2 gene and in the same transcriptional polarity. Exons 1-3 encode distinct 5' untranslated regions and are transcribed by three different promoters, P1, P2, and P3, into three IGF-II mRNAs sharing common coding and 3' untranslated sequences. Promoters P2 and P3 each contain a TATA box and appear to direct transcription from single initiation sites. By contrast, exon 1 has three major transcriptional start sites distributed over 556 nucleotides, and P1 lacks a TATA region and other typical transcriptional control sequences. Exons 4-6 code for the 180-amino-acid IGF-II precursor, and exon 6 also contains a 3,045-nucleotide 3' untranslated region which ends at a single polyadenylation site. In addition to six functional IGF-II exons, we identified two 5' "pseudo-exons," which appear to be evolutionarily retained remnants of an alternative promoter-exon cassette that is active in human IGF-II. Loss of the homolog of this promoter, which directs "adult-specific" expression of the IGF-II gene in some human tissues, may explain the disappearance of this growth factor from most murine tissues in the early postnatal period.
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- P Rotwein
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110
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Cariani E, Seurin D, Lasserre C, Franco D, Binoux M, Brechot C. Expression of insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) in human primary liver cancer: mRNA and protein analysis. J Hepatol 1990; 11:226-31. [PMID: 2174934 DOI: 10.1016/0168-8278(90)90118-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) is a polypeptide growth factor thought to be involved in fetal tissue development. We previously showed an increased expression of IGF-II mRNA in human primary liver cancer. The present investigation was undertaken to characterize the overexpressed IGF-II transcripts and to determine whether they are translated into protein. Two cDNAs with distinct 5' untranslated regions, corresponding to IGF-II transcripts expressed in fetal liver, were isolated from a primary liver cancer. Complete nucleotide sequence analysis showed an identical open reading frame of 540 bp, encoding a predicted polypeptide identical to the IGF-II isolated from serum. An increased synthesis of IGF-II protein was demonstrated by a protein-binding assay in tumorous liver samples, the highest levels being found in primary liver cancers with the highest IGF-II steady state level. By contrast, serum IGF-II content was low in most of primary liver cancer cases analyzed. Altogether, the results indicate reexpression of IGF-II both at the mRNA and protein levels in primary liver cancer. This finding is consistent with IGF-II being a marker of liver cell differentiation. In addition, this growth factor might be involved in liver cancer progression by an autocrine and/or paracrine mechanism.
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MESH Headings
- Adenoma, Bile Duct/genetics
- Adenoma, Bile Duct/metabolism
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/genetics
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/metabolism
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA, Neoplasm/analysis
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Exons
- Fetus/metabolism
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor II/genetics
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor II/metabolism
- Liver Neoplasms/genetics
- Liver Neoplasms/metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
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- E Cariani
- INSERM U75, C.H.U. Necker, Paris, France
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- R E Humbel
- Biochemisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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Hepler JE, Lund PK. Molecular biology of the insulin-like growth factors. Relevance to nervous system function. Mol Neurobiol 1990; 4:93-127. [PMID: 2076220 DOI: 10.1007/bf02935586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- J E Hepler
- Curriculum in Neurobiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599
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Kits KS, de Vries NJ, Ebberink RH. Molluscan insulin-related neuropeptide promotes neurite outgrowth in dissociated neuronal cell cultures. Neurosci Lett 1990; 109:253-8. [PMID: 2330129 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(90)90003-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The formation of neurites in isolated neurones of the snail Lymnaea stagnalis in primary culture was studied. The insulin-related neuropeptide (MIP: Molluscan insulin-related peptide) produced by the neuroendocrine light green cells (LGCs) of Lymnaea stimulated neurite formation, both in isolated unidentified central neurons and in the LGCs. The effect of MIP was dose dependent. It was significant from the second day of culture and amounted up to an 8-fold increase in neurite outgrowth after 3 days. The results add a functional aspect to the evolutionary relationship of MIP with mammalian insulin and insulin-related peptides and suggest that the LGCs, which stimulate growth, are also involved in development of the nervous system.
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- K S Kits
- Department of Biology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Shambaugh GE, Clough D, Munari L, Koehler RR, Radosevich JA. The impact of maternal serum on development of enolase activity in fetal rat brain cell culture. Exp Cell Res 1990; 186:210-7. [PMID: 2298240 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(90)90298-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The effect of gestational age on serum-mediated changes in enolase activity was tested in a fetal rat brain cell culture. After 6 days exposure to graded concentrations (10 and 20%) of nonpregnant female rat sera, enolase activity in brain cell cultures increased from 2.83 +/- 0.03 to 3.74 +/- 0.19 mumol/min/mg protein, P less than 0.01. By contrast, similar concentrations of 20-day maternal serum progressively decreased enzyme activity from 1.52 +/- 0.14 to 1.19 +/- 0.08 mumol/min/mg protein. The inhibitory effect was apparent at 14 days gestation and became progressively greater during late gestation to reach a maximum at 20 days. Combining equal concentrations of 20-day pregnant with either nonpregnant or adult male serum neutralized the inhibitory activity. When serum from 20-day pregnant rats was partitioned by a dialysis membrane with a 50,000 MW pore size, inhibitory activity could be similarly neutralized by male or nonpregnant female serum. When 20-day maternal serum was passed successively through filters with a greater than 300,000, 100,000, and 50,000 MW exclusion, the inhibitory activity was apparent in all fractions excluded by a molecular weight of 50,000. No inhibition was apparent in fractions that were not excluded by 50,000 MW pore size. Inhibition of enolase activity was greatest in the fraction with MW greater than 300,000. Binding of IGF II could also be demonstrated in this fraction. Binding of IGF II was evident in the fraction greater than 100,000 MW but could not be demonstrated in fractions with a lower molecular weight. The presence of mRNA for IGF II in 20-day fetal rat brain cell cultures was evident when total cellular RNA was analyzed by an RNAase protection assay. It is proposed that a high-molecular-weight component of maternal serum in late gestation can bind endogenously generated IGF II. Such binding, by depleting the necessary growth factors, could inhibit in vitro growth and development of enolase activity.
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Daughaday WH. Fetal lung fibroblasts secrete and respond to insulin-like growth factors. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1989; 1:11-2. [PMID: 2560394 DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb/1.1.11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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- W H Daughaday
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Engelmann GL, Boehm KD, Haskell JF, Khairallah PA, Ilan J. Insulin-like growth factors and neonatal cardiomyocyte development: ventricular gene expression and membrane receptor variations in normotensive and hypertensive rats. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1989; 63:1-14. [PMID: 2473931 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(89)90076-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Defined factors regulating or influencing mammalian ventricular myocyte (cardiomyocyte) development are not known at this time. During early neonatal ventricular growth, cardiomyocytes begin a 'transition phase' of development toward cellular maturation (hypertrophy) that entails terminal proliferation and cellular binucleation. Insulin-like growth factor-I and -II (IGFs) are believed to play a major role in mammalian postnatal and fetal growth, possibly functioning in local environments which facilitate autocrine or paracrine tissue growth characteristics. Therefore, we examined the expression of the IGF genes and their corresponding membrane receptors in ventricles of normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rat pups during the first 7-14 days of age. We have determined: (1) by receptor crosslinking that neonatal ventricular membranes possess type 1 and type 2 IGF receptors; (2) by receptor binding analysis that type 1 IGF receptor concentration is elevated between days 1-7 in the SHR and shows an age-related decline in concentration and an increase in affinity in both strains; (3) by Northern blot analysis that neonatal rat ventricular tissue expresses primarily IGF-II RNA transcripts of 3.6, 2.3 and 1.7 kilobases (kb) in size, with low levels of IGF-I transcripts detected; (4) by slot-blot hybridization that SHR ventricles contain higher levels of IGF-II transcripts at 3 days of age; and (5) localized the IGF transcripts to ventricular myocytes by tissue in situ hybridization. These observations support a role for cardiomyocyte-produced IGFs that may be locally produced and act in an autocrine or paracrine fashion to modulate cardiomyocyte growth and maturation in the developing rat heart. Because both IGF receptor and IGF RNA transcript parameters differed in SHR hearts, genetically predisposed to hypertrophy, a potentially important biochemical alteration may be associated with the fetal/neonatal growth abnormalities of the developing heart in this rat strain.
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- G L Engelmann
- Department of Heart and Hypertension, Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44106
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Ishii DN. Relationship of insulin-like growth factor II gene expression in muscle to synaptogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:2898-902. [PMID: 2704752 PMCID: PMC287027 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.8.2898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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A striking correlation between insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) gene expression and turnover of neuromuscular synapses was observed. The IGF-II gene was expressed at a high level in fetal rat hind limb muscles prior to the developmental formation of synapses and increased while polyneuronal innervation accumulated. Thereafter, there was a selective down-regulation of IGF-II mRNAs that was exactly coincident with the postnatal time course for elimination of superfluous synapses. The hypothesis that innervation might provide a signal suppressing IGF-II gene expression was tested. Upon transection of the sciatic nerve, there was up-regulation of IGF-II mRNA content in muscle. This up-regulation was selective and correlated with the capacity of denervated muscle to accept reinnervation. These results suggest that the IGF-II gene may play a role in the development and turnover of synapses.
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- D N Ishii
- Department of Physiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523
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Sussenbach JS. The gene structure of the insulin-like growth factor family. PROGRESS IN GROWTH FACTOR RESEARCH 1989; 1:33-48. [PMID: 2491254 DOI: 10.1016/0955-2235(89)90040-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The insulin-like growth factors (IGF) constitute a family of proteins with insulin-like and growth-stimulating properties. The best characterized members of this family are IGF-I, a protein of 70 amino acids which plays an important role in post-natal growth, and IGF-II, a 67 amino acid protein which is most likely involved in fetal development. The gene structure of IGF-II has been elucidated for the human and the rat and shows extensive interspecies homologies. The gene structure of IGF-I has only partially been established. A striking feature of the IGF genes is that they are controlled by multiple promoters which are expressed in a tissue-specific and development-dependent way.
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- J S Sussenbach
- Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry, State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Ueno T, Takahashi K, Matsuguchi T, Endo H, Yamamoto M. Transcriptional deviation of the rat insulin-like growth factor II gene initiated at three alternative leader-exons between neonatal tissues and ascites hepatomas. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 950:411-9. [PMID: 3167060 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(88)90138-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Insulin-like growth factor II (IGFII) is a mitogenic polypeptide, the mRNAs of which are present in multiple forms, despite derivation from a single gene. In the present study, we observed nearly full-length rat IGFII mRNA structures of major species with three alternative 5'-untranslated sequences and a common unusually-long 3'-untranslated region. These three 5' sequences (E1, E2 and E3) locate at different sites on the rat IGFII genome and are therefore independent leader-exons. Northern blotting using probes specific to E1, E2 and E3 sequences revealed major bands at 3.8 kilobases (kb), 4.6 kb and 3.6 kb in nucleotide length, respectively. The E1, E2 and E3 promoters were functional in all rat neonatal tissues examined and in the adult brain, and the relative level of mRNA species was fairly constant, although the bulk expression varied from tissue to tissue. Thus, the three mRNAs initiated from the single rat IGFII gene are co-ordinately regulated. However, this relative transcriptional constancy deviated variously in several lines of transplantable rat ascites hepatomas, thereby indicating that each mRNA level can also be regulated independently.
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- T Ueno
- Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Fu XX, Su CY, Lee Y, Hintz R, Biempica L, Snyder R, Rogler CE. Insulinlike growth factor II expression and oval cell proliferation associated with hepatocarcinogenesis in woodchuck hepatitis virus carriers. J Virol 1988; 62:3422-30. [PMID: 2457114 PMCID: PMC253466 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.9.3422-3430.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Insulinlike growth factor II (IGF-II) is a highly mitogenic fetal growth factor suspected of regulating the growth of a wide spectrum of tissues via an autocrine or paracrine mode of action or both. High steady-state levels of IGF-II RNA were detected in 45% of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) arising from woodchuck livers with persistent woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) infection. Analysis of WHV RNA in the same HCCs revealed that HCCs with high levels of IGF-II RNA contained low or undetectable levels of WHV RNA and HCCs with low levels of IGF-II RNA contained high levels of WHV RNA. Integrated WHV DNA was present in HCCs from both groups, but viral DNA replicating forms were present, predominantly in HCCs with low levels of IGF-II. Several IGF-II RNAs, the most prominent of which were poly(A) species of approximately 3.75 and 1.1 to 1.3 kilobases, were detected only in precancerous nodules and HCCs. Levels of IGF-II were elevated two- to three-fold in the serum of woodchucks with chronic active hepatitis preceding the occurrence of HCC. Proliferation of a population of oval cells, which arise from portal tract regions in the liver, preceded the development of HCC and was a prominent feature of livers from which tumors with high levels of IGF-II occurred. The HCCs tended to have distinct histological features according to their growth factor status. Tumors with low levels of IGF-II were generally highly differentiated acinar-trabecular HCCs, whereas tumors with high levels of IGF-II were more anaplastic, with regions of fibrosis and fatty accumulation. A model to relate the pathology of WHV infection to oval cell proliferation and IGF-II expression in the development of these heterogeneous HCCs is presented.
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- X X Fu
- Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461
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DiCicco-Bloom E, Black IB. Insulin growth factors regulate the mitotic cycle in cultured rat sympathetic neuroblasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:4066-70. [PMID: 2897692 PMCID: PMC280362 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.11.4066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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While neuronal mitosis is uniquely restricted to early development, the underlying regulation remains to be defined. We have now developed a dissociated, embryonic sympathetic neuron culture system that uses fully defined medium in which cells enter the mitotic cycle. The cultured cells expressed two neuronal traits, tyrosine hydroxylase [L-tyrosine, tetrahydropteridine:oxygen oxidoreductase (3-hydroxylating); EC 1.14.16.2] and the neuron-specific 160-kDa neurofilament subunit protein, but were devoid of glial fibrillary acidic protein, a marker for non-myelin-forming Schwann cells in ganglia. Approximately one-third of the tyrosine hydroxylase-positive cells synthesized DNA in culture, specifically incorporating [3H]thymidine into their nuclei. We used this system to define factors regulating the mitotic cycle in sympathetic neuroblasts. Members of the insulin family of growth factors, including insulin and insulin-like growth factors I and II, regulated DNA synthesis in the presumptive neuroblasts. Insulin more than doubled the proportion of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive cells entering the mitotic cycle, as indicated by autoradiography of [3H]thymidine incorporation into nuclei. Scintillation spectrometry was an even more sensitive index of DNA synthesis, revealing a 4-fold insulin stimulation with an ED50 of 100 ng/ml. Insulin-like growth factor I was 100-fold more potent than insulin, whereas insulin-like growth factor II was less potent, suggesting that insulin growth factor type I receptors mediated the mitogenic responses. In contrast, the trophic protein nerve growth factor exhibited no mitogenic effect, suggesting that the mitogenic action of insulin growth factors is highly specific. Our observations are discussed in the context of the detection of insulin growth factors and receptors in the developing brain.
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- E DiCicco-Bloom
- Department of Neurology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021
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O'Malley KL, Rotwein P. Human tyrosine hydroxylase and insulin genes are contiguous on chromosome 11. Nucleic Acids Res 1988; 16:4437-46. [PMID: 2898127 PMCID: PMC336640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The gene for the catecholamine biosynthetic enzyme, tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), has been previously mapped to human chromosome 11 p15.5 in the vicinity of the loci for insulin (INS) and for the oncogene Harvey Ras 1 (HRAS). Here we show that gene probes derived from recombinant clones containing either human TH or INS cross-hybridize with each other. Direct DNA sequencing demonstrates that these genes are physically linked on chromosome 11. The TH gene is 5' to INS and is separated by only 2.7 kb of flanking DNA. Both genes have the same transcriptional polarity and form a head-to-tail linkage group with insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-2) in the order: 5' - TH - INS - IGF-2 - 3'. Because of the close physical proximity of these genes, previously described polymorphisms for INS are identical to those observed with TH. The localization of TH to the highly polymorphic INS locus provides four new restriction fragment length polymorphisms which should help determine rapidly whether defects in TH are responsible for bipolar affective disorder in the Old Order Amish and other populations.
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- K L O'Malley
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110
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Braun L, Mead JE, Panzica M, Mikumo R, Bell GI, Fausto N. Transforming growth factor beta mRNA increases during liver regeneration: a possible paracrine mechanism of growth regulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:1539-43. [PMID: 3422749 PMCID: PMC279808 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.5.1539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 332] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) is a growth factor with multiple biological properties including stimulation and inhibition of cell proliferation. To determine whether TGF-beta is involved in hepatocyte growth responses in vivo, we measured the levels of TGF-beta mRNA in normal liver and during liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in rats. TGF-beta mRNA increases in the regenerating liver and reaches a peak (about 8 times higher than basal levels) after the major wave of hepatocyte cell division and mitosis have taken place and after the peak expression of the ras protooncogenes. Although hepatocytes from normal and regenerating liver respond to TGF-beta, they do not synthesize TGF-beta mRNA. Instead, the message is present in liver nonparenchymal cells and is particularly abundant in cell fractions enriched for endothelial cells. TGF-beta inhibits epidermal growth factor-induced DNA synthesis in vitro in hepatocytes from normal or regenerating liver, although the dose-response curves vary according to the culture medium used. We conclude that TGF-beta may function as the effector of an inhibitory paracrine loop that is activated during liver regeneration, perhaps to prevent uncontrolled hepatocyte proliferation.
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- L Braun
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
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Recio-Pinto E, Ishii DN. Insulin and insulinlike growth factor receptors regulating neurite formation in cultured human neuroblastoma cells. J Neurosci Res 1988; 19:312-20. [PMID: 3288762 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490190306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The functional role of brain insulin and insulinlike growth factor (IGF) receptors is being sought. Recently it has been found that these ligands are members of a newly identified family of neuritogenic polypeptides. We studied the relationship between 125I-insulin and 125I-IGF binding and their capacity to enhance neurite formation in cultured human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. The binding of 125I-insulin was temperature-dependent and heterogeneous. The Scatchard plot and dissociation rate were both consistent with the presence of two types of sites. There appeared to be about 900 high affinity sites per cell with a Kd of about 3 nM. This compared favorably with the half-maximal concentration of 4 nM for enhancement of neurite formation. The type I IGF sites were also present. Physiologic concentrations of insulin clearly enhanced neurite formation through the insulin sites, whereas physiologic concentrations of IGF-I and IGF-II enhanced through the IGF sites. Cross-occupancy of sites was observed at supraphysiologic concentrations, providing a reasonable explanation for the broad dose-response curves for these ligands. These results support the suggestion that one function of insulin and IGF receptors in neural tissues may be to modulate neurite formation.
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- E Recio-Pinto
- Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York
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Recio-Pinto E, Ishii D. Insulin and related growth factors: effects on the nervous system and mechanism for neurite growth and regeneration. Neurochem Int 1988; 12:397-414. [DOI: 10.1016/0197-0186(88)90021-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Rotwein P, Burgess SK, Milbrandt JD, Krause JE. Differential expression of insulin-like growth factor genes in rat central nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:265-9. [PMID: 3422422 PMCID: PMC279525 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.1.265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 307] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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A sensitive solution-hybridization assay was used to investigate the expression of genes encoding insulin-like growth factors I and II (IGF-I and -II) in the rat central nervous system (CNS). mRNAs for both IGFs are synthesized throughout the CNS of adult rats but exhibit distinct regional differences for each growth factor. IGF-I mRNA is 8-10 times more abundant in the cervical-thoracic spinal cord and in the olfactory bulb than in whole brain and is enriched 3-fold in the midbrain and cerebellum. IGF-II mRNA is minimally enriched in the medulla-pons and cerebellum but is 3-5 times less abundant in the midbrain and corpus striatum than in total brain. During CNS development the content of IGF-I and IGF-II mRNAs is highest at embryonic day 14 and declines by a factor of 3-4 at birth, to values found in adult brain. Embryonic neurons and glia synthesize IGF-I mRNA during short-term cell culture; only glia produce IGF-II mRNA. These observations show that IGF-I and IGF-II are differentially expressed in the developing and adult CNS and suggest that each growth factor may play a unique role in the mammalian nervous system.
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- P Rotwein
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Sara VR, Carlsson-Skwirut C. The role of the insulin-like growth factors in the regulation of brain development. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 1988; 73:87-99. [PMID: 3047812 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)60499-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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5'-Noncoding sequences have been compiled from 699 vertebrate mRNAs. (GCC) GCCA/GCCATGG emerges as the consensus sequence for initiation of translation in vertebrates. The most highly conserved position in that motif is the purine in position -3 (three nucleotides upstream from the ATG codon); 97% of vertebrate mRNAs have a purine, most often A, in that position. The periodical occurrence of G (in positions -3, -6, -9) is discussed. Upstream ATG codons occur in fewer than 10% of vertebrate mRNAs-at-large; a notable exception are oncogene transcripts, two-thirds of which have ATG codons preceding the start of the major open reading frame. The leader sequences of most vertebrate mRNAs fall in the size range of 20 to 100 nucleotides. The significance of shorter and longer 5'-noncoding sequences is discussed.
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- M Kozak
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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Fernyhough P, Ishii DN. Nerve growth factor modulates tubulin transcript levels in pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. Neurochem Res 1987; 12:891-9. [PMID: 3683739 DOI: 10.1007/bf00966311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We report that nerve growth factor (NGF) can elevate tubulin transcript levels in cultured rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells in a manner which correlates with its capacity to enhance neurite formation. The elevation is due, at least in part, to transcript stabilization. We have previously shown that insulin and its homologs can similarly enhance neurite outgrowth and tubulin mRNA levels in human neuroblastoma cells. Insulin by itself can neither induce neurite formation nor increase tubulin transcript levels in PC12 cells. However, both responses are potentiated in cells treated with the combination of insulin and NGF. The results together support the generalization that tubulin transcript levels are specifically elevated whenever neurite elongation is initiated by polypeptide neuritogenic factors.
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- P Fernyhough
- Department of Physiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523
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Irminger JC, Rosen KM, Humbel RE, Villa-Komaroff L. Tissue-specific expression of insulin-like growth factor II mRNAs with distinct 5' untranslated regions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:6330-4. [PMID: 3476948 PMCID: PMC299069 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.18.6330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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We have used RNA from human hypothalamus as template for the production of cDNAs encoding insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II). The prohormone coding sequence of brain IGF-II RNA is identical to that found in liver; however, the 5' untranslated sequence of the brain cDNA has no homology to the 5' untranslated sequence of the previously reported liver cDNAs. By using hybridization to specific probes as well as a method based on the properties of RNase H, we found that the human IGF-II gene has at least three exons that encode alternative 5' untranslated regions and that are expressed in a tissue-specific manner. A probe specific to the brain cDNA 5' untranslated region hybridizes to a 6.0-kilobase transcript present in placenta, hypothalamus, adrenal gland, kidney, Wilms tumor, and a pheochromocytoma. The 5' untranslated sequence of the brain cDNA does not hybridize to a 5.3-kilobase transcript found in liver or to a 5.0-kb transcript found in pheochromocytoma. By using RNase H to specifically fragment the IGF-II transcripts into 3' and 5' fragments, we found that the RNAs vary in size due to differences in the 5' end but not the 3' end.
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Rotwein P, Folz RJ, Gordon JI. Biosynthesis of human insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). The primary translation product of IGF-I mRNA contains an unusual 48-amino acid signal peptide. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)60885-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Gray A, Tam AW, Dull TJ, Hayflick J, Pintar J, Cavenee WK, Koufos A, Ullrich A. Tissue-specific and developmentally regulated transcription of the insulin-like growth factor 2 gene. DNA (MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC.) 1987; 6:283-95. [PMID: 3652904 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1987.6.283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Transcription of the rat and human IGF-2 gene loci is unusually complex. The pattern of expression of these genes varies both between tissues and within a given tissue during different stages of development. Alternative splicing or possibly transcriptional initiation events generate variant IGF-2 mRNAs that contain different 5'-untranslated leader sequences. These leader exon sequences are shared with non-IGF-2 mRNAs. Certain noncoding IGF-2 gene sequence elements are transcribed extensively and are found in multiple copies elsewhere in the human genome. Furthermore, IGF-2 mRNA levels are particularly high in a variety of human malignancies.
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- A Gray
- Department of Molecular Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080
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Shimatsu A, Rotwein P. Mosaic evolution of the insulin-like growth factors. Organization, sequence, and expression of the rat insulin-like growth factor I gene. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47652-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Höppener JW, Steenbergh PH, Slebos RJ, de Pagter-Holthuizen P, Roos BA, Jansen M, Van den Brande JL, Sussenbach JS, Jansz HS, Lips CJ. Expression of insulin-like growth factor-I and -II genes in rat medullary thyroid carcinoma. FEBS Lett 1987; 215:122-6. [PMID: 2883027 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(87)80125-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Several types of cancer cells produce polypeptide growth factors and often the same cells have functional receptors for the released growth factor (autocrine secretion). We have studied expression of genes encoding somatomedin-C/insulin-like growth factor-I (Sm-C/IGF-I) and IGF-II, in rat medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTCs) in different stages of tumour differentiation. RNAs hybridizing specifically to an IGF-I cDNA probe were detected in 6 out of 7 differentiated MTCs and IGF-II related RNAs were demonstrated in 5 out of these 7 differentiated MTCs. In 5 anaplastic MTCs no IGF RNAs were detected, except for a small amount of IGF-II related RNA in one tumour.
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Soares MB, Turken A, Ishii D, Mills L, Episkopou V, Cotter S, Zeitlin S, Efstratiadis A. Rat insulin-like growth factor II gene. A single gene with two promoters expressing a multitranscript family. J Mol Biol 1986; 192:737-52. [PMID: 2438416 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(86)90025-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We have characterized the single-copy rat gene encoding the protein precursor of insulin-like growth factor II (pre-pro-rIGF-II) that is located downstream from and in the same transcriptional orientation as the homologous insulin II gene (5'-insulin-IGF-II-3'). This gene consists of at least three coding exons and utilizes two promoters that generate alternate 5' non-coding exons. Multiple transcripts from both promoters appear primarily in fetal or neonatal tissues (in all of the developmental stages and tissues that we have examined), but they are extremely rare or undetectable in adult tissues, with the exception of the brain and the spinal cord. These transcripts, which exhibit characteristic developmental profiles in various tissues, differ both in the presence of one of the alternate 5' non-coding exons and in the length of their fourth exon. The possible occurrence of differential splicing or differential polyadenylation (or both) in this region is discussed.
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Frunzio R, Chiariotti L, Brown AL, Graham DE, Rechler MM, Bruni CB. Structure and expression of the rat insulin-like growth factor II (rIGF-II) gene. rIGF-II RNAs are transcribed from two promoters. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)76010-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Lund PK, Moats-Staats BM, Hynes MA, Simmons JG, Jansen M, D'Ercole AJ, Van Wyk JJ. Somatomedin-C/insulin-like growth factor-I and insulin-like growth factor-II mRNAs in rat fetal and adult tissues. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66903-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Stempien MM, Fong NM, Rall LB, Bell GI. Sequence of a placental cDNA encoding the mouse insulin-like growth factor II precursor. DNA (MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC.) 1986; 5:357-61. [PMID: 3780370 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1986.5.357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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cDNAs encoding the mouse insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) precursor have been isolated from a placental library and sequenced. Mouse prepro-IGF-II is predicted to be 180 amino acids and has 84% and 97% identity with human and rat IGF-II precursors, respectively. There are two prepro-IGF-II transcripts in mouse placenta; the major transcript is 3850 bases and the minor one is 4800 bases. Prepro-IGF-II mRNA cannot be detected in adult mouse liver, but it is readily detected in adult human liver, indicating that there are differences in the regulation of expression of the IGF-II gene in the liver of adult mice and human beings.
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Morrison RS, Sharma A, de Vellis J, Bradshaw RA. Basic fibroblast growth factor supports the survival of cerebral cortical neurons in primary culture. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:7537-41. [PMID: 3463983 PMCID: PMC386754 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.19.7537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 424] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Bovine basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is a potent mitogen isolated from bovine pituitary glands and brain. The addition of homogeneous bFGF to primary cultures of rat cerebral cortical neurons markedly enhances cell survival and elaboration of neurites. These effects are dose-dependent, with optimal stimulation occurring at a concentration of 500 pg/ml. Maintenance of survival and neurite outgrowth require the continuous presence of bFGF. Other growth factors, such as thrombin, platelet-derived growth factor, beta nerve growth factor, and interleukin 2, have no effect on neuronal survival or process formation. Although the cellular site(s) of bFGF synthesis has not yet been established, these results suggest that bFGF may function as a neurotrophic agent in the central nervous system.
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Roberts CT, Brown AL, Graham DE, Seelig S, Berry S, Gabbay KH, Rechler MM. Growth hormone regulates the abundance of insulin-like growth factor I RNA in adult rat liver. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)67484-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Graham DE, Rechler MM, Brown AL, Frunzio R, Romanus JA, Bruni CB, Whitfield HJ, Nissley SP, Seelig S, Berry S. Coordinate developmental regulation of high and low molecular weight mRNAs for rat insulin-like growth factor II. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:4519-23. [PMID: 3459186 PMCID: PMC323765 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.12.4519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) is a mitogenic polypeptide that is thought to play a role in fetal growth and development. To study the hormonal and developmental regulation of IGF-II gene expression, we have isolated a cDNA clone for rat IGF-II (rIGF-II) from a 12S [1.2-kilobase-pair (kbp)] fraction of mRNA from a rat liver cell line (BRL-3A) that directs the cell-free synthesis of pre-pro-rIGF-II. In the present study, the rIGF-II probe was used to determine the size of IGF-II RNA. Surprisingly, in BRL-3A cells and in neonatal liver, the probe hybridized under stringent conditions 10-20 times more strongly to a larger (4 kbp) RNA than to 1.2-kbp RNA. The 4-kbp RNA is almost exclusively cytoplasmic and is colinear with a 551-base fragment of the rIGF-II cDNA insert containing coding and 3' noncoding regions. The 4-kbp and 1.2-kbp RNA species are regulated coordinately with developmental age, being high in liver from neonatal rats but not detectable in liver from older animals, suggesting that both IGF-II mRNA species arise from a single primary transcript by alternative RNA processing. Although oligodeoxynucleotide hybridization and S1 nuclease protection experiments suggest that the 4-kbp RNA contains an intact protein-coding region, fractions enriched in 4-kbp RNA do not direct the translation of pre-pro-rIGF-II in vitro. This may indicate that the 4-kbp RNA specifies an altered protein product that has not yet been recognized, or alternatively that it contains a normal protein-coding region but requires further RNA processing to be activated for translation.
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Omiecinski CJ. Tissue-specific expression of rat mRNAs homologous to cytochromes P-450b and P-450e. Nucleic Acids Res 1986; 14:1525-39. [PMID: 3754047 PMCID: PMC339521 DOI: 10.1093/nar/14.3.1525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The tissue-specific expression of cytochrome P-450b and P-450e mRNAs was examined with synthetic 18-mer oligomer probes in the liver, lung, kidney, and testis of control and inducer pretreated adult rats. RNAs homologous to the P-450e probe were detected in trace amounts in control and 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) induced livers and at high levels in livers from phenobarbital (PB) induced animals. P-450e mRNA levels were below detection limits in the other tissues examined, regardless of pretreatment. In contrast, mRNAs homologous to the P-450b oligomer were detected at low levels in control and inducer pretreated lung and testis, and at high levels in PB induced liver. No P-450b mRNAs were detected in these assays in RNA isolates from the kidney or from control or MC pretreated liver. Solution hybridization data indicated that the rat lung contained 9-12%, and the testis, 6-9%, respectively, of the levels of P-450b mRNA measured in the PB induced liver. Results from oligo(dT)-cellulose and poly(U)-affinity experiments indicated that the hepatic mRNAs for P-450b and P-450e were present predominantly in the bound, polyadenylated fraction, whereas the homologous lung and testes P-450b mRNAs predominated in the flow-thru fractions.
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Le Bouc Y, Dreyer D, Jaeger F, Binoux M, Sondermeyer P. Complete characterization of the human IGF-I nucleotide sequence isolated from a newly constructed adult liver cDNA library. FEBS Lett 1986; 196:108-12. [PMID: 2935423 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(86)80223-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A full-size cDNA sequence coding for insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) was isolated from a human liver library. For the construction of this bank, a new method was developed which anneals dG-tailed cDNA with a synthetic adaptor 5'-AATTCCCCCCCCCCC-3' followed by ligation into the EcoRI site of a lambda immunity-insertion vector. Based on the sequence analysis of the complete IGF-I messenger we concluded that the protein is synthesized as a precursor containing a signal peptide of 22 or 25 amino acid residues. In addition, the sequence extended in the 3'-direction and showed the presence of multiple polyadenylation sites in the IGF-I message.
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Mill JF, Chao MV, Ishii DN. Insulin, insulin-like growth factor II, and nerve growth factor effects on tubulin mRNA levels and neurite formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1985; 82:7126-30. [PMID: 3901011 PMCID: PMC391323 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.82.20.7126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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We have previously shown that insulin and the insulin-like growth factors share some important neurotrophic properties with nerve growth factor (NGF), including the capacity to enhance neurite formation. In this study, we have examined the effects of these neuritogenic agents on the expression of genes coding for important cytoskeletal proteins of axons and dendrites. Insulin specifically and coordinately increased the levels of alpha- and beta-tubulin mRNAs in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. The dose-response curves for these increases were very similar to that for enhancement of neurite formation. Tubulin transcripts reached a transient maximum in approximately 1 day, suggesting that higher levels are important during initiation of neurites and that high levels are not required to sustain neurites once formed. Insulin-like growth factor II shared with insulin the capacity to substantially increase tubulin mRNA levels. NGF had but a small effect. Complementary mechanisms for these neurotrophic agents are suggested, because other studies show NGF and insulin can synergistically potentiate neurite formation. None of the factors altered the levels of actin mRNA. Thus, neurite formation does not seem to require a coordinate increase in actin and tubulin transcripts in SH-SY5Y cells.
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