title: Anti-sense transforming growth factor alpha oligonucleotides inhibit autocrine stimulated proliferation of a colon carcinoma cell line.
abstract: Many carcinoma cells secrete transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha). A 23 base anti-sense oligonucleotide that recognizes the TGF alpha mRNA inhibits both DNA synthesis and the proliferation of the colon carcinoma cell line LIM 1215. The effects of the anti-sense TGF alpha oligonucleotide are reversed by epidermal growth factor (EGF) at 20 ng/ml. When the LIM 1215 cells are grown under serum free conditions, the anti-sense TGF alpha oligonucleotides have their greatest effects at high cell density (2 x 10(5) cells/cm2), indicating that the secreted TGF alpha is acting as an exogenous growth stimulus. In addition, at higher cell densities, the kinase activity of the EGF receptor is activated and the receptor is down-modulated. The cell density dependent activation of the EGF receptor is inhibited by the application of the antisense TGF alpha oligonucleotides.
authors.affiliation: Melbourne Tumour Biology Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Sizeland
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Burgess
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D015536:Down-Regulation; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016376:Oligonucleotides, Antisense / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D011869:Radioligand Assay; D016211:Transforming Growth Factor alpha / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D016376:Oligonucleotides, Antisense; D016211:Transforming Growth Factor alpha; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor