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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 315, Issue 8, Pages 1458-1467Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2009.01.008
Keywords
IGF-1R; R-; Transformation; Oncogene; H-RasV12; Polyoma middle T-antigen
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- Swedish Cancer Society
- Swedish Medical Council
- Stockholm Cancer Society
- Children Cancer Society
- King Gustaf V jubilee Foundation
- Lundberg's Research Foundation
- Jeanssons Foundation
- Stockholm County
- Karolinska Institute
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Insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF-1R) is important for transformation of cells with cellular and viral oncogenes. This knowledge is mainly based on experiments on IGF-1R knockout mouse fibroblasts, which mostly are unable to transform after introduction of various oncogenes. Recently, we observed two variants of R- cells, one of which (R-s) surprisingly expresses the beta-subunit of IGF-1R whereas the other one (R-r) does not. Here we show that the beta-subunit is localized intracellularly and forms perinuclear aggregates. It expresses tyrosine kinase activity and appears to be crucial for cell survival since knockdown of it kills the R-s cells. H-RasV12 and/or polyoma middle T-antigen fail to transform R-r, whereas R- cells expressing the beta-subunit were transformed as assessed by formation of colonies in soft agar. The oncogenic transformation of R-s cells was, however, abrogated when the aberrant beta-subunit was knockdown by siRNA. The occurrence of intracellular IGF-1R, especially in tumor cells, has been widely reported but its function has not been understood. Our study provides evidence that it may be important for cell survival and transformation. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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