AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 269, Issue 5 E804-E813, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Expression of IGF-II and IGF binding proteins in differentiating human intestinal Caco-2 cells

Y. Zhang, D. A. Wick, B. Seetharam and N. M. Dahms
Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA.

The mitogenic and metabolic effects of insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) can be modulated by six distinct IGF binding proteins (IGFBPs). As a first step toward understanding the role of IGFs and their binding proteins in intestinal epithelial cell differentiation, the expression of IGF-II and IGFBPs was characterized in the human colon adenocarcinoma Caco-2 cell line. Northern blot analysis revealed two IGF-II transcripts of 5.4 and 4.5 kb, and ribonuclease protection assays indicated that IGF-II mRNA levels are regulated during Caco-2 differentiation. A specific radioimmunoassay detected IGF-II in serum-free conditioned medium, the level of which was three- to fivefold higher in proliferating cells than in differentiated cells. Immunoprecipitation and ligand blot analyses of conditioned medium demonstrated that IGFBP-2, IGFBP-3, IGFBP-4, and IGFBP-6 are synthesized by Caco-2 cells, with IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-4 being the major IGFBPs secreted, and that the levels of IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-6 decreased as differentiation proceeded. These results indicate that the expression of IGF-II, IGFBP-2, and IGFBP-6 is regulated in a differentiation-dependent manner in Caco-2 cells.

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