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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The pathophysiological role of extracellular matrix proteoglycans in human thyroid diseases.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10671045
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Endocrinology
Research InstitutionNippon Medical School

Principal Investigator

EMOTO Naoya  Nippon Medical School, Department of Medicine, Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (50160388)

Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Keywordsheparan sulfate / extracellular matris / FGF / thyroid carcinoma / Graves' disease / proteoglycan
Research Abstract

I established a simple and sensitive method for detecting FGF-2-binding heparan sulfate and characterized them in papillary thyroid carcinomas and normal thyroids. The thyroid extracts were applied on to a Q-Sepharose anion exchange column. After the column was washed with 10 mM phosphate buffer, one μg of human recombinant FGF-2 was added onto the column. The column was eluted with a gradient of NaCl (0.3-1.5 M). Each fraction was blotted onto nitrocellulose membrane. Immunoreactivity of heparan sulfate and FGF-2 was revealed by the incubation of membranes with the specific antibodies, and quantitatively estimated by measuring the density of the color product. In normal thyroids, immunoreactivity of heparan sulfate was detected as two peaks at 0.7 and 0.9 M NaCl. Heparan sulfate containing fractions also showed FGF-2 immunoreactivity, indicating the complex formation of FGF-2 and heparan sulfate. In papillary thyroid carcinomas, immunoreactivity of heparan sulfate showed various elution profile on Q-Sepharose chromatography, including single peak at 0.7 M NaCl and the one similar to that of the normal thyroids. However, FGF-2 immunoreactivity wad detected only in the fractions eluting at 0.7 M NaCl. This loss of a subpopulation of FGF-2-binding heparan sulfate in human papillar thyroid carcinomas may lead to the increase of free FGF-2 bioavailable in extracellular matrix.

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All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] NAOYA EMOTO: "Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 Free from Extpacellular Matrix is increased in papillary Thyroid Carcinomas and Graves' Thyroid"THYROID. 8. 491-497 (1998)

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  • [Publications] HIROYUKI Onose: "Overexpression of fibroblast growth factor receptor-3 in a human thyroid carcinoma cell line results in overgrowth..."European Journal of Endocrinology. 140. 169-173 (1999)

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  • [Publications] HITOSHI Sugihara: "Effect of insulin-like growth factor I on growth hormone releasing factor receptor expression in primary rat...."Neuroscience Letters. 276. 87-90 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Onose, H., Emoto N., Dugihara, H., Shimizu, K., and Wakabayashi, I.: "Overexpression of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 in a human thyroid carcinoma cell line results in overgrowth of the confluent cultures."Eur J Endocrinol. 140. 169-173 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Sugihara, H., Emoto N., Tamura, H., Kamegai, J., Shibasaki, T., Minami, S., and Wakabayashi, I.: "Effect of insulin-like growth factor-I on growth hormone-releasing factor receptor expression in primary rat anterior pituitary cell culture."Neurosci Lett. 276. 87-90 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Emoto, N., Onose, H., Sugihara, H., Minami, S., Shimizu, K., and Wakabayashi, I.: "FGF-2 free from extracellular matrix is increased in papillary thyroid carcinomas and graves' thyroids."Thyroid. 8. 491-497 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Emoto, N., Onose H., Tamada H., Minami S., Tsushima T., and Wakabayashi I.: "Grouwth factors increase pericellular proteoglycans independently of their mitogenic effects on A10 rat vascular smooth muscle cells."Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 30. 47-54 (1998)

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