IGFBP2 Is a Candidate Biomarker for Ink4a-Arf Status and a Therapeutic Target for High-Grade Gliomas

The levels of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 2 (IGFBP2) are elevated during progression of many human cancers. By using a glial-specific transgenic mouse system (RCAS/Ntv-a), we reported previously that IGFBP2 is an oncogenic factor for glioma progression in combination with platelet-derived growth factor-β (PDGFB). Because the INK4a-ARF locus is often deleted in highgrade gliomas (anaplastic oligodendroglioma and glioblastoma), we investigated the effect of the lnk4a-Arf-null background on IGFBP2-mediated progression of PDGFB-initiated oligodendroglioma. We demonstrate here that homozygous deletion of Ink4a-Arf bypasses the requirement of exogenously introduced IGFBP2 for glioma progression. Instead, absence of Ink4a-Arf resulted in elevated endogenous tumor cell IGFBP2. An inverse relationship between $p16^{INK4a} $ and IGFBP2 expression was also observed in human glioma tissue samples and in 90 different cancer cell lines by using Western blotting and reverse-phase protein lysate arrays. When endogenous IGFBP2 expression was attenuated by an RCAS vector expressing antisense IGFBP2 in our mouse model, a decreased incidence of anaplastic oligodendroglioma as well as prolonged survival was observed. Thus, $p16^{INK4a} $ is a negative regulator of the IGFBP2 oncogene. Loss of Ink4a-Arf results in increased IGFBP2, which contributes to glioma progression, thereby implicating IGFBP2 as a marker and potential therapeutic target for lnk4a-Arf-deleted gliomas..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

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2009

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:106

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Englisch

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Moore, Lynette M. [VerfasserIn]
Holmes, Kristen M. [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Sarah M. [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Tchougounova, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Uhrbom, Lene [VerfasserIn]
Sawaya, Raymond [VerfasserIn]
Bruner, Janet M. [VerfasserIn]
Fuller, Gregory N. [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Cavenee, Webster K. [VerfasserIn]

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JST069859957