title: Differential interactions between IGFBP-3 and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) in normal vs cancerous breast epithelial cells.
abstract: In addition to modulating insulin-like growth factors action, it is now clear that insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 also has intrinsic effects on cell growth and survival. We have compared the effects of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 and transforming growth factor-beta on cell proliferation and death of Hs578T cells and the normal breast epithelial cell line, MCF-10A. The growth of MCF-10A cells was inhibited at low concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 but stimulated at high concentrations. These differential effects were unaffected in the presence of an insulin-like growth factor-I receptor antagonist. A synthetic peptide corresponding to the serine phosphorylation domain of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 (that does not bind to insulin-like growth factors) also mimicked these differential actions. The growth of both cell lines was significantly inhibited by transforming growth factor-beta, this was associated with a 14-fold increase of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 secreted by the Hs578T cells but a five-fold decrease of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 secreted by MCF-10A cells. Replacement doses of exogenous insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 overcame the transforming growth factor-beta-induced growth inhibition in the MCF-10A cells. Cell death induced by ceramide was significantly reduced by insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 in the MCF-10A cells and depleting insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 with transforming growth factor-beta in these cells consequently increased their susceptibility to ceramide. In contrast, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 enhanced apoptosis induced by ceramide in the Hs578T cells but transforming growth factor-beta treated Hs578T cells were resistant to apoptosis. The addition of anti-sense mRNA to insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 significantly abrogated this effect of transforming growth factor-beta. These data indicate that insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 has intrinsic activity capable of inhibiting or enhancing the growth and survival of breast epithelial cells depending on the cell line and exposure to other cytokines.
authors.affiliation: Division of Surgery, Department of Hospital Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McCaig
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Fowler
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Laurence
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Savage
authors.forename: J M P
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Holly
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Perks
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis; D001940:Breast / Q000166:cytology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002518:Ceramides / Q000494:pharmacology; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D018972:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D014162:Transfection; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014343:Trypan Blue; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D002518:Ceramides; D018972:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta; D014343:Trypan Blue