Abstract
Lung cancers have been distinguished into small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell-lung cancer (NSCLC) types on the basis of their clinical behaviors and their responses to treatment. Moreover, growth of most SCLC cell lines in liquid culture medium is nonadherent, while that of most NSCLC cell lines is adherent. In this study, we examined the effect of matrigel (reconstituted basement membrane components), which is known to have growth-stimulatory activity on various human tumor cell lines in immunodeficient mice, on soft-agar colony formation of a panel of SCLC and NSCLC cell lines to clarify its mechanism of growth stimulation of cancer cells. Matrigel enhanced colony formation of all 9 NSCLC cell lines and 4 of 9 SCLC cell lines. There was a statistically significant difference (P<0.01) between colony formations with and without matrigel of NSCLC cell lines, but not for SCLC cell lines. In liquid culture medium, all 9 NSCLC lines and 3 of 9 SCLC lines adhered to plastic dishes, whereas the other SCLC lines did not. Matrigel enhanced colony formation of all 3 adherent-type SCLC lines and 1 of 6 nonadherent-type NSCLC lines. Matrigel enhanced colony formation of both of 2 adherent-type non-lung cancer cell lines and 1 of 2 nonadherent-type leukemia cell lines. Neither transforming growth factor β, collagen type IV, fibronectin, nor laminin, which are components of matrigel, enhanced colony formation of an NSCLC cell line in soft agar. The increase in the colony number of the NSCLC cell line by matrigel was abrogated by the protein kinase inhibitors staurosporine and UCN-01.
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Abbreviations
- SCLC :
-
small-cell lung cancer
- NSCLC :
-
non-small-cell lung cancer
- TGFβ :
-
transforming growth factor β
- FBS :
-
fetal bovine serum
- CDK :
-
cyclin-dependent protein kinase
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This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (06670615) from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture, Japan
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Yoshida, S., Shimizu, E., Ogura, T. et al. Stimulatory effect of reconstituted basement membrane components (matrigel) on the colony formation of a panel of human lung cancer cell lines in soft agar. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 123, 301–309 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01438305
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