TY - JOUR
T1 - Polyamines and the synthesis of estradiol-regulated growth factors in rat mammary cancer in culture
AU - Manni, Andrea
AU - Wright, Carol
AU - Luk, Gordon D.
AU - Davis, Glenn
AU - Demers, Lawrence M.
PY - 1987/2
Y1 - 1987/2
N2 - We have recently provided evidence to suggest that the polyamine pathway plays an essential role in the expression of the growth-promoting effect of estradiol (E2) regulated growth factors in the N-nitrosomethylurea (NMU) induced rat mammary tumor cultured in vitro in the soft agar clonogenic assay. To further explore the interaction between the polyamine pathway and autocrine control of tumor growth by E2, we tested whether, in our system, polyamines play a role in the synthesis of E2-regulated growth factors. Conditioned medium (CM) obtained from tumors treated with E2 and the polyamine biosynthesis inhibitor α-difluoromethyl-ornithine (DFMO) (1 mM) no longer exhibited the colony-stimulating effect which was consistently observed with E2-CM. Such growth promoting activity was restored in a dose-dependent fashion with CM obtained from tumors treated with E2, DFMO, and increasing concentrations of spermidine (from 1 to 100 μM). Conditioned medium obtained from tumors treated with DFMO with and without spermidine in the absence of E2 had no discernible effects on colony formation. The colony stimulating effect of the CM employed could not be accounted for by the contaminating presence in the media of E2, DFMO, or polyamines. These results indicate that, in our system, the polyamine pathway plays an important role in the synthesis of E2-regulated growth factors.
AB - We have recently provided evidence to suggest that the polyamine pathway plays an essential role in the expression of the growth-promoting effect of estradiol (E2) regulated growth factors in the N-nitrosomethylurea (NMU) induced rat mammary tumor cultured in vitro in the soft agar clonogenic assay. To further explore the interaction between the polyamine pathway and autocrine control of tumor growth by E2, we tested whether, in our system, polyamines play a role in the synthesis of E2-regulated growth factors. Conditioned medium (CM) obtained from tumors treated with E2 and the polyamine biosynthesis inhibitor α-difluoromethyl-ornithine (DFMO) (1 mM) no longer exhibited the colony-stimulating effect which was consistently observed with E2-CM. Such growth promoting activity was restored in a dose-dependent fashion with CM obtained from tumors treated with E2, DFMO, and increasing concentrations of spermidine (from 1 to 100 μM). Conditioned medium obtained from tumors treated with DFMO with and without spermidine in the absence of E2 had no discernible effects on colony formation. The colony stimulating effect of the CM employed could not be accounted for by the contaminating presence in the media of E2, DFMO, or polyamines. These results indicate that, in our system, the polyamine pathway plays an important role in the synthesis of E2-regulated growth factors.
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U2 - 10.1007/BF01806693
DO - 10.1007/BF01806693
M3 - Article
C2 - 3109529
AN - SCOPUS:0023186266
SN - 0167-6806
VL - 9
SP - 45
EP - 51
JO - Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
JF - Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
IS - 1
ER -
