Publication Date:
1989-09-29
Description:
Autocrine growth due to dysregulated growth factor production may have a role in the development of neoplasia. Whether autocrine growth is stimulated by growth factor secretion in an autocrine loop or by intracellular binding of the growth factor to a receptor has been unclear. The carboxyl-terminus coding sequence for murine interleukin-3 (IL-3) was extended with an oligonucleotide encoding a four-amino acid endoplasmic reticulum retention signal. IL-3-dependent hematopoietic cells became growth factor-independent when the modified IL-3 gene was introduced by retroviral gene transfer, despite lack of secretion of the modified IL-3. Hence autocrine growth can occur as a result of the intracellular action of a growth factor and this mechanism may be important in neoplastic and normal cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dunbar, C E -- Browder, T M -- Abrams, J S -- Nienhuis, A W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Sep 29;245(4925):1493-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Clinical Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2789432" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Cell Division/drug effects
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Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
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Cells, Cultured
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Clone Cells
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Interleukin-3/genetics/metabolism/*physiology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred BALB C
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Mice, Nude
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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