title: Transforming growth factor-beta inhibits the growth of renal cell carcinoma in vitro.
abstract: Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is a bifunctional growth regulatory hormone which inhibits the growth of many normal and neoplastic epithelial cell lines in monolayer culture. Endogenous and exogenous TGF-beta may influence cell proliferation through autocrine and paracrine binding to specific TGF-beta receptors. Growth effects of TGF-beta on human renal cell carcinoma cell lines have not been thus far described. We have studied the effects of TGF-beta on one renal tumor-derived (UOK-39) and one established (SKRC-7) renal cell carcinoma cell line. Exogenous addition of biologically active TGF-beta to cell cultures at concentrations between two and five ng./ml. inhibited the anchorage-dependent growth of UOK-39 by 75% and SKRC-7 by 44%, relative to controls. Low numbers of high affinity TGF-beta receptors were identified on both cell lines in 125I-TGF-beta binding assays. UOK-39 cells bound radiolabeled TGF-beta with higher affinity than SKRC-7 cells, but had fewer receptor sites, by Scatchard analysis of binding data. These results suggest that TGF-beta inhibits proliferation of renal carcinoma cells in vitro which may be mediated through binding of exogenous TGF-beta to functional TGF-beta receptors on the cell surface.
authors.affiliation: Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Gomella
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Sargent
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Linehan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kasid
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism*; D018125:Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta; D015291:Transforming Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018125:Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta; D015291:Transforming Growth Factors