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Qiong Zhou1, Dan Meng, Bing Yan
1The Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Abstract:
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) plays an important role in prostate cancer development. Recent studies suggest that IGF-1 has mitogenic action through epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). However, the mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we demonstrated in prostate cancer DU145 cells that IGF-1 induced EGFR transactivation, leading to ERK activation. Matrix metalloproteinase-mediated shedding of heparin-binding EGF is involved in this process. Antioxidants and catalase inhibited IGF-1-stimulated EGFR phosphorylation, indicating that H(2)O(2) is required for EGFR activation. However, exogenous H(2)O(2) did not activate EGFR or IGF-1R in DU145 cells. IGF-1 did not induced production of H(2)O(2) in DU145 cells. Our results suggest that transactivation of EGFR by IGF-1 requires basal intracellular H(2)O(2) in DU145 cells.
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