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P Jachimczak1, B Hessdörfer, K Fabel-Schulte
1Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Transforming growth factors-beta 1 and -beta 2 (TGF-beta 1 and -beta 2) are important growth-regulatory proteins for astroglial neoplasms. We analyzed their role in tumor-cell proliferation in 12 glioma cell lines, employing phosphorothioate antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (S-ODNs, 14 mer), specifically targeted against the coding sequences of TGF-beta 1-mRNA and TGF-beta 2-mRNA. TGF-beta 1-S-ODNs inhibited cell proliferation in 5 of 12 gliomas, whereas TGF-beta 2-S-ODNs reduced the cell proliferation in all glioma cell lines, compared to nonsense-S-ODN-treated and S-ODN-untreated cells as controls. The efficacy and specificity of antisense effects was validated by Northern-blot analysis and determination of protein concentrations in culture supernatants (ELISA). Exogenous hrTGF-beta 1 either stimulated or inhibited the cell lines, whereas pnTGF-beta 2 stimulated the proliferation of most glioma cells. Blocking the extracellular pathway of TGF-beta by neutralizing antibodies only slightly inhibited those cell lines, which were markedly stimulated by TGF-betas. As the effects of TGF-beta 2-S-ODNs were much stronger than those of TGF-beta neutralizing antibodies, we postulate that the endogenously produced TGF-beta 2 control glioma-cell proliferation, in part by an intracellular loop.
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