title: The biological effects of a high molecular weight form of IGF II in a pluripotential human teratocarcinoma cell line.
abstract: The human teratoma cell line Tera 2 synthesizes and secretes insulin like growth factors into the culture medium. Size fractionation of conditioned medium by acidic gel filtration chromatography showed that the medium contains the canonical 7 kD IGF II, as well as a large IGF II variant, immunologically crossreactive with canonical IGF II. Amino acid analysis of the Tera 2 secreted large IGF II variant has shown that it is biochemically distinct from previously isolated high molecular weight variants of IGF II. Both species of IGF II support cell multiplication of Tera 2 cultures, albeit with different potency. In spite of the resulting potential for autocrine growth of Tera 2, we failed to observe such a situation. We propose that one reason for this failure to observe such a situation. We propose that one reason for this failure is the co-secretion of the 29 kD IGF binding protein type 1 with IGF II, which we have demonstrated to inhibit the biological effects of the growth factor on Tera 2 cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, U.K.
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Schofield
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Granerus
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tally
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Engström
mesh_terms: D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D003429:Cross Reactions; D017077:Culture Media, Conditioned; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D018970:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 1; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / Q000378:metabolism; D007335:Insulin-Like Growth Factor II / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D018243:Teratocarcinoma; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D017077:Culture Media, Conditioned; D006133:Growth Substances; D018970:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 1; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I; D007335:Insulin-Like Growth Factor II