Neurotrophin gene expression by cell lines derived from human gliomas

Journal of Neuroscience Research
W HamelK Nikolics

Abstract

The expression of neurotrophin (NGF, BDNF, and NT-3) mRNAs in 24 cell lines derived from human malignant gliomas was studied by Northern analysis. Widespread expression of neurotrophin genes was found with BDNF being the most abundantly expressed. Nearly all cell lines expressed BDNF, and about two-thirds of the cell lines expressed NGF and NT-3. Half of the cell lines analyzed expressed all three neurotrophins. Secretion of NGF into the medium of several cell lines could be detected by ELISA and a PC12 neurite outgrowth assay. Immuno- and bioactive NGF was isolated from conditioned medium of one cell line. No evidence of expression of the neurotrophin receptors trk and trkB by Northern analysis was found. Receptor crosslinking with radiolabeled cognate ligands failed to detect functional receptors in all but one cell line. In this cell line a receptor complex for BDNF was found that corresponded to truncated trkB receptors that lack the signal transducing tyrosine kinase domain. Neurotrophins did not stimulate mitosis of the glioma cultures. The findings suggest that production of neurotrophins by glioma cells is a general phenomenon, although neurotrophins made by gliomas lacking their receptors may not play an autocrine but ...Continue Reading

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