Growth factor independence and growth regulatory pathways in human melanoma development |
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Authors: | Ulrich Rodeck |
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Institution: | (1) The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 3601 Spruce Street, 19104 Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary This review concentrates on growth autonomy of tumor cells in relation to tumor progression. Human malignant melanoma serves as an example for progressive growth factor independence at subsequent stages of tumor progression. Mechanisms by which malignant cells acquire growth factor independence are discussed. In melanoma, deregulation of growth regulatory pathways has been described on four levels: 1) aberrant production of autocrine growth factors that substitute for exogenous growth factors (basic fibroblast growth factor bFGF]); 2) alterations in the response to negative autocrine growth factors (interleukin IL]-6 and transforming growth factor TGF]- ); 3) overexpression of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGF-R); and 4) alterations of cellular protooncogenes involved in signal transduction (RAS, MYB) and growth suppression (p53). In addition to bFGF and IL-6, multiple other growth factor genes are activated in malignant melanoma cells but not normal melanocytes. These include both chains of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), TGF- , IL-1, IL-8, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)- . Of these, PDGF-B has been investigated in more detail. Melanoma-derived PDGF clearly does not act in a direct autocrine mode, but has important paracrine effects on normal tissue constituents, notably fibroblasts and endothelial cells, that are essential for tumor developmentin vivo. It is speculated that other melanoma-derived growth factors with as yet undefined functions similarly exert such paracrine or indirect autocrine effects that cannot be sufficiently addressed in studies on cultured cells. |
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Keywords: | melanoma cell lines tumor progression growth factors autocrine paracrine |
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