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Guo, Y.S. et al.

Differential regulation by TGF-beta 1 and insulin of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2 in IEC-6 cells.

The purposes of this study were to determine the regulation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2 (IGFBP-2) in IEC-6 cells by transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) and insulin and to determine whether IGFBP-2 mediated the growth-inhibitory action on the cells. Utilizing Western ligand blot analysis, we found that TGF-beta 1 at concentrations of 0.5, 1.0, and 2 ng/ml significantly increased levels of 32-kDa IGFBP in the conditioned medium (CM) of IEC-6 cells in a dose-dependent fashion and that low doses of insulin (1.0 and 5.0 microgram/ml) also increased IGFBP levels in the CM of IEC-6 cells, but a high dose of insulin (10 micrograms/ml) depressed IGFBP release in the CM. Immunoblotting has shown that the IGFBP of 32 kDa was IGFBP-2 and further confirmed the above results. IGFBP-2 mRNA levels were stimulated by TGF-beta 1 (2.0 ng/ml) and suppressed by insulin (5.0 micrograms/ml). In addition, des (1-3) IGF-I (50 ng/ml) and insulin stimulated the proliferation of IEC-6 cells. Anti-IGFBP-2 antibodies partially blocked the inhibitory role in IEC-6 cell growth evoked by des (1-3) IGF-I. These findings suggest that the upregulation of IGFBP-2 by TGF-beta 1 occurs, at least in part, at the level of mRNA, whereas the regulation by insulin appears to be at a posttranslational level, and that the TGF-beta 1- stimulated production of IGFBP may contribute to the growth-inhibitory action in intestinal epithelial cells.[1]

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Differential regulation by TGF-beta 1 and insulin of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2 in IEC-6 cells. Guo, Y.S., Townsend, C.M., Jin, G.F., Beauchamp, R.D., Thompson, J.C. Am. J. Physiol. (1995) [Pubmed]

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