Kellerer M, Obermaier-Kusser B, Ermel B, Wallner U, Häring HU, Petrides PE. An altered IGF-I receptor is present in human leukemic cells.
J Biol Chem 1990;
265:9340-5. [PMID:
1693149]
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Abstract
We have characterized and analyzed IGF-I- and insulin-stimulated cell growth, receptor binding, and autophosphorylation in the human leukemic cell line HL-60. IGF-I-stimulated cell growth occurred at low (5 ng/ml) and insulin stimulated only at high (500 ng/ml) concentrations. Binding of 125I-IGF-I to partially purified plasma membrane proteins followed the characteristics of IGF-I receptor binding. 125I-IGF-I binding, as determined by chemical cross-linking, occurred to a 145-kDa protein. IGF-I, as well as insulin, stimulated the autophosphorylation of a 105-kDa band (pp105), but we could not detect a 95-kDa band corresponding to the known molecular mass of the IGF-I and insulin receptor beta-subunits. Phosphorylation of pp105 followed the dose-response characteristics of the IGF-I receptor. The phosphorylation of pp105 occurred at tyrosine and threonine, and the pattern of HPLC tryptic peptide maps showed marked differences when compared with that of a phosphorylated insulin receptor beta-subunit. Enzymatic deglycosylation of pp105 resulted only in a slight reduction of the molecular weight. These data suggest that pp105 is the beta-subunit of an IGF-I receptor variant with a higher molecular weight, similar to that found in fetal tissue. The HL-60 cell may acquire, at least in part, malignant growth characteristics through reexpression of the fetal version of the IGF-I receptor.
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