ABSENCE OF TGF-BETA RECEPTORS AND GROWTH INHIBITORY RESPONSES IN RETINOBLASTOMA CELLS
ABSENCE OF TGF-BETA RECEPTORS AND GROWTH INHIBITORY RESPONSES IN RETINOBLASTOMA CELLS
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DOI:
10.1126/science.2895499
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发表时间:
1988-04-08
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
MASSAGUE, J
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作者:
KIMCHI, A;WANG, XF;MASSAGUE, J
The responses of retinoblastoma tumor cells and normal retinal cells to various growth inhibitory factors were examined. Whereas fetal retinal cells were highly sensitive to the antimitogenic effects of transforming growth factor .beta.1 (TGF-.beta.1), retinoblastoma tumor cell lines were all resistant to this factor. Binding assays and affinity labeling of these cells with radioiodinated TGF-.beta.1 revealed that the cells did not have TGF-.beta. receptors. The retinoblastoma cells lacked three affinity-labeled proteins of 65, 95, and 300 kilodaltons typically seen in human cell lines and thus differed from normal retinal cells and from other types of neuroectodermal tumors that display the normal pattern of receptors. Loss of TGF-.beta. receptors, which is a rare event among tumor cells, may represent one mechanism through which these cells escape from negative control and form retinoblastomas.