Constitutive Expression of Growth-related Oncogene and Its Receptor in Oligodendrogliomas
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurosurgery
- Vol. 48 (4), 864-874
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-200104000-00035
Abstract
Gliomas may result from transformation of glial precursor cells. In the developing rat central nervous system (CNS), a paracrine pathway involving the cytokines growth-related oncogene (GRO1) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) A chain closely regulates oligodendrocyte precursor cell number. The purpose of the present study was to analyze whether abnormal expression and activity of the GRO1–PDGF pathway is present in human gliomas. Tumor specimens were studied to compare the messenger ribonucleic acid with the protein expression of components of the GRO1–PDGF pathway. Neutralizing antibodies were used in vitro to analyze whether the pathway contributed to tumor cell proliferation. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated that all components of the GRO1–PDGF pathway (GRO1 protein, its receptor CXCR2, PDGF A chain, and its receptor PDGFαR) were expressed by tumor cells in 6 (86%) of 7 of oligodendrogliomas as well as by 0 of 4 diffuse astrocytomas (World Health Organization Grades II and III) and 2 (18%) of 11 glioblastomas. Analysis by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed CXCR2 messenger ribonucleic acid and GRO1 protein expression were present in oligodendrogliomas. Functional analyses with neutralizing antibodies limited bromodeoxyuridine incorporation in vitro by oligodendroglioma tumor cells, demonstrating a requirement for the GRO1–PDGF pathway in the proliferation of these cells. The GRO1–PDGF pathway was primarily expressed and functional in oligodendrogliomas. The tightly controlled paracrine pathway that regulates oligodendrocyte precursor proliferation in the developing rodent CNS was constitutively active in most oligodendrogliomas in the present study. The presence of this aberrantly functioning oncogenic pathway in a subset of primary CNS tumors opens new avenues to glioma treatment that are based directly on the biology of the proliferative glial cell type, a novel strategy for primary CNS tumor therapy.Keywords
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