title: Role of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2 and its limited proteolysis in neuroblastoma cell proliferation: modulation by transforming growth factor-beta and retinoic acid.
abstract: Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding proteins (IGFBPs) modulate IGF action at cellular level through inhibition or, alternatively, potentiation, where their limited proteolysis is a contributory mechanism. Under basal conditions, neuroblastoma cells secrete IGFs (essentially IGF-II), IGFBPs (IGFBP-4 and predominantly IGFBP-2 that is partially proteolysed), and proteases, including tissue-type plasminogen (PLG) activator, whose activity is inhibited by PLG activator inhibitor-1. Neuroblastoma cells were used to investigate the influence of the plasmin system, transforming growth factor-beta retinoic acid on cell growth and the IGF system. In cells treated with 5 micrograms/ml PLG, proliferation was stimulated, an effect that was inhibited in the presence of either alpha IR-3 (which blocks the type 1 IGF receptor) or anti-IGF-II antibodies. There was a parallel increase in IGFBP-2 proteolysis, which resulted in a 5-fold loss of affinity for IGF-II. In the presence of 1 ng/ml transforming growth factor-beta, PLG-induced mitogenesis and IGFBP-2 proteolysis were reduced, and Northern blot analysis revealed increased PLG activator inhibitor-1 mRNA. Conversely, with 2 microM retinoic acid, the mitogenic effect of PLG, IGFBP-2 proteolysis, and tissue-type PLG activator mRNAs were increased. Therefore, IGF-II mediates autocrine proliferation in neuroblastoma cells under the control of IGFBPs secreted by the cells, its bioavailability being enhanced as a result of plasmin-induced IGFBP-2 proteolysis.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U.142, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Menouny
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Binoux
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Babajko
mesh_terms: D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002455:Cell Division; D005341:Fibrinolysin / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D018971:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000473:pathology*; D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000494:pharmacology; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D018971:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2; D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta; D014212:Tretinoin; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator; D005341:Fibrinolysin