title: The effect of TGF-beta 1 on cell proliferation and proteoglycan production in human melanoma cells depends on the degree of cell differentiation.
abstract: The effect of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) on cell proliferation, colony formation in soft agar and synthesis and structure of proteoglycans was studied in three human melanoma cell lines at different stages of differentiation: SK-mel-1.36-1-5 (early), SK-mel-3.44 (intermediate) and SK-mel-23 (late). TGF-beta 1 potently inhibited cell growth in monolayer as well as in soft agar. TGF-beta 1 increased the release of sulfated proteoglycans into the medium, including the cell-specific melanoma proteoglycan, mel-PG, and induced changes in disaccharide composition and sulfation of the glycosaminoglycan chains. In all the cases, the effect of TGF-beta 1 was more pronounced in the most undifferentiated cell line SK-mel-1.36-1-5 than in the SK-mel-3.44, whereas it had no effect on the most differentiated SK-mel-23 cells.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heredia
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Villena
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romarís
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Molist
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bassols
mesh_terms: D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D011509:Proteoglycans / Q000378:metabolism*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects; D014410:Tumor Stem Cell Assay
chemical_list: D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D011509:Proteoglycans; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta