Epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor alpha mRNA expression in human breast cancer biopsies; analysis in relation to estradiol, progesterone and EGF receptor content
| Autor: | Salima Le Penven, Simone Saez, Nicole Falette, Elsa G. Garófalo, Nora Artagaveytia, Rosana Lucero |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
TGF alpha Receptors Steroid Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Biopsy Clinical Biochemistry Breast Neoplasms Receptors Estradiol Biology Biochemistry Statistics Nonparametric Endocrinology Cell surface receptor Epidermal growth factor Internal medicine Progesterone receptor medicine Humans Northern blot RNA Messenger RNA Neoplasm Receptor Molecular Biology Epidermal Growth Factor Cell Biology Transforming Growth Factor alpha ErbB Receptors Gene Expression Regulation Neoplastic Hormone receptor Molecular Medicine Female Receptors Progesterone hormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonists Transforming growth factor |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology. 60(3-4) |
| ISSN: | 0960-0760 |
| Popis: | Among the peptide growth factors active in breast glandular cell proliferation epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha) are thought to play a major role in tumour development. They operate through binding to and activation of a common membrane receptor, defined as EGF-R. Their production is modulated by hormones and local growth factors. After it was shown by previous investigation in this laboratory that EGF-R could be detected in 90% of the tumours, but was masked by endogenous ligand in 36% of them, the question was raised as to the level of the ligand's expression in tumour tissue biopsies. Therefore, we investigated the expression of EGF and TGF alpha mRNA in 146 breast cancer biopsies by slot blot analysis using specific 32P-labelled probes. The data were correlated with sex steroids and EGF receptor content. Our results showed that EGF and TGF alpha coexisted in all tumour samples, and that their level of mRNA expression was similar in half of the tumours. Northern blot and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis validated these findings. A significant direct correlation was found between the level of TGF alpha/EGF mRNA expression and the ER/progesterone receptor (PGR) content. TGF alpha and EGF mRNA levels were significantly higher in ER+ (P = 0.0015 and P = 0.0001, respectively) and in PGR+ tumours (P0.005 and P = 0.0001) than in their negative counterparts. Moreover, TGF alpha mRNA expression negatively correlated with the number of EGF-R binding sites measured by the standard method (P = 0.02), and it was significantly related to the number of sites occupied by endogenous ligand. In conclusion, it was shown that TGF alpha and EGF mRNA were coexpressed in all the tumour biopsies tested and that their level was higher in the hormone receptor positive than in negative samples. The correlation between the presence of ER/PGR sites, high level of TGF alpha/EGF mRNA and EGF-R occupancy by endogenous ligand is in favour of ER mediated control of TGF alpha and EGF production. |
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