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Since lysozyme and alpha 1-anti-chymotrypsin are constituents of normal histiocytes, their value as tumor cell markers in histiocytes neoplasias has been investigated using the indirect immunoperoxidase method and commercially available specific antisera on formaldehyde-fixed, paraffin-embedded 5 micrometers sections after pretreatment with pronase. The distribution of both markers was determined in 35 cases of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) and in 13 cases of malignant histiocytosis (MH). In 12 cases of MH both markers were found whereas in MFH alpha 1-antichymotrypsin was demonstrated in 26 and lysozyme in 16 cases only. In general, the staining for alpha 1-anti-chymotrypsin was more intense than the staining for lysozyme. A negative reaction does not exclude the possibility of MH or MFH. The presence of both constituents in tumours, however, can be considered as indicative of histiocytogenic origin and both can be useful markers for distinguishing histiocytic neoplasias from other tumours.
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PMID:Lysozyme (muramidase) and alpha 1-anti-chymotrypsin as immunohistochemical tumour markers. 628 96

An islet cell tumor, characterized by proinsulin level significantly elevated above normal human pancreas, has been found to contain insulin- and glucagon-degrading activity. Examination by chromatography on Sephadex G-75 of the degradation products formed from insulin showed A chain, and B chain rich-A chain aggregate as previously found with rat pancreatic islets. There was, however, little conversion of A chain to low molecular weight components indicating that insulinoma peptidase that has been found to degrade glucagon at about pH 6.8 degraded that A chain to a markedly lower rate. In contrast to the insulin-degrading activity, which was activated by glutathione in the presence of EDTA, the peptidase activity was not affected by the thiol compound. The activity of the peptidase was markedly inhibited by chelating agents, i.e., EDTA and o-phenanthroline, whereas chymotrypsin and trypsin inhibitors, i.e., TOS-PheCH2Cl, TOS-LysCH2Cl, soybean and pancreas trypsin inhibitor were found to have no effect.
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PMID:Thiol-protein disulfide oxidoreductase and peptidase activities in insulinoma tissue. 632 44

The extracellular matrix of cultured chicken embryo fibroblasts undergoes a number of modifications during the early stages of oncogenic transformation. One alteration is increased production of a small protein (Mr approximately 21,000) which is transiently deposited in the matrix by transforming cells infected with LA24, a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) (Blenis, J., and Hawkes, S.P. (1983) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 770-774). This protein is a major component of substratum-associated material (material which remains attached to culture dishes after removal of cells with ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid). Its synthesis is stimulated by transformation of cells with NY68, another ts mutant of RSV, and also by treatment of normal, uninfected cells with the tumor promoter, phorbol myristate acetate. Accessibility of the 21-kDa protein to lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination indicates an exposed location within the matrix. The protein binds strongly to the culture dish and/or other matrix components. This interaction can be disrupted by sodium dodecyl sulfate but not by several nonionic detergents, unless beta-mercaptoethanol or KCl (0.5 M) are also present. High concentrations of urea or guanidine hydrochloride also remove the protein from the matrix. The 21-kDa protein is resistant to trypsin, collagenase, and the hydrolytic enzymes associated with cells transformed by the wild-type Prague A RSV but not to Pronase or chymotrypsin. A 21-kDa protein with properties similar to those described above is also detected in the medium and binds to the matrix, suggesting that a potential route of deposition of the 21-kDa protein in the matrix may be via shedding and subsequent interaction with other matrix components.
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PMID:Characterization of a transformation-sensitive protein in the extracellular matrix of chicken embryo fibroblasts. 643 99

Vegetarian populations show a decreased occurrence of breast, colon, and prostatic cancers. Epidemiological studies have identified seeds (maize, corn, and beans) as protective agents in these cancers. We have selected to study one abundant component of all seeds, protease inhibitors. Synthetic and natural protease inhibitors have been shown to inhibit tumor promotion in vivo and in vitro. In the present study, we report that a typical, natural protease inhibitor, the Bowman-Birk inhibitor isolated from soybeans, survives inactivation by stomach digestion in rodents and appears to be fully active as a protease inhibitor in the small intestine, where it complexes with the proteases occurring there, i.e., trypsin and chymotrypsin. A large part of the inhibitor is excreted as protease:protease inhibitor complexed in the feces. We also report the specific inhibition of transformation caused by ionizing radiation by this protease inhibitor. The mechanism of anticarcinogenesis of ingested protease inhibitors may involve the indirect effect of partially blocking protein absorption. High-protein and high-fat diets are known to increase cancer occurrence. Protease inhibitors reaching specific sites also have anticarcinogenic activities, as demonstrated by the radioprotective effect of a protease inhibitor in vitro. The relative importance of the indirect and direct action of protease inhibitors remains to be established.
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PMID:Bowman-Birk soybean protease inhibitor as an anticarcinogen. 668 11

The murine B cell tumor, BCL1, bears monomeric IgM lambda on its surface. After stimulation in vitro with LPS, the cells secrete pentameric IgM lambda. Comparison of mu-chains from radiolabeled intracellular, surface, and secreted IgM indicates that mu-chains from the three sites have different apparent m.w. Since the observed differences are analogous to those reported for normal murine lymphoid cells, the BCL1 cells were used for determining the structural basis for the differences in m.w. of mu-chains from the above sites. Comparative peptide analysis was performed on mu-chains from cell associated and secreted IgM. Approximately 25 peptides were identified after digestion with chymotrypsin and trypsin and analysis of peptides by cation exchange chromatography. All peptides co-eluted with the exception of a single extra peptide derived from the Fc portion of the secreted IgM. The same peptide was observed in a similar analysis using mu-chains from IgM secreted by normal splenocytes.
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PMID:A peptide difference between the mu-chains from cell-associated and secreted IgM of the BCL1 tumor. 677 2

Glia maturation factor (GMF)-like activity which induces DNA synthesis and morphological differentiation of density-inhibited glioblasts was detected in various glial tumor cells. A polypeptide from C6 cells (rat astrocytoma) which has a molecular weight range of 40,000-50,000 showed the highest activity. This factor also induced DNA synthesis in glioma cells (354A and LRM55) and fibroblast (Swiss 3T3). The activity was susceptible to heat treatment at 70 degrees C for 5 min, or to proteases such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, papain, and subtilisin, but it was devoid of esteropeptidase activity. The isoelectric point was found to be 5.3. Subcellular fractionation localized the activity in cytosomal and microsomal fractions. These properties closely resemble those of GMF from pig and bovine brain.
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PMID:The induction of glial proliferation by an astrocytoma-derived growth factor resembling glia maturation factor. 681 7

Spermine and spermidine enhanced the binding of hexokinase isoenzyme type II to mitochondria, both of which were prepared from Ehrlich-Lettre hyperdiploid ascites tumor cells, at much lower concentrations than Mg2+. Chymotrypsin-treated hexokinase II could not bind to the mitochondrial membrane in the presence of either spermine or Mg2+, indicating that the effect of spermine is not a nonspecific action, since the treatment of chymotrypsin cleaves only the region essential for the binding without any significant effect of the catalytic activity. Both spermine and Mg2+ antagonized the glucose 6-phosphate-induced release of mitochondria-bound hexokinase, and promoted the binding of the solubilized hexokinase II even in the presence of glucose 6-phosphate. However, inhibition of the activity of soluble hexokinase by glucose 6-phosphate was not reversed by spermine and Mg2+. Hexokinase II rebound to mitochondria with spermine and Mg2+ produced glucose 6-phosphate using ATP generated inside the mitochondria, and no difference was observed between the spermine- and Mg2+-rebound systems. Significance of the binding of hexokinase to mitochondria, especially with polyamines, is discussed with reference to high glycolytic rate in tumor cells.
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PMID:Polyamines stimulate the binding of hexokinase type II to mitochondria. 688 95

A tissue culture line of a human malignant melanoma, SEKI, induced cachexia in nude mice (BALB/c-nu/nu) (Kondo et al., Cancer Res., 41: 2912-2916, 1981). During the investigation of the cause of the cachexia, the melanoma was found to produce a protein immunologically identical to human alpha 1-antichymotrypsin (alpha 1-Ach). Tissues of the SEKI melanoma contained the protein immunologically equivalent to 0.29 +/- 0.11 (S.D.) mg of human alpha 1-Ach per g of wet tissue, while the other six human malignant tumors transplanted into nude mice did not contain a detectable amount of it. In the serum of nude mice bearing the melanoma, this protein appeared soon after the tumor growth occurred and gradually increased up to the level equivalent to 5 mg of human alpha 1-Ach per dl. Removal of the tumor resulted in a rapid decrease of the protein in the serum to an undetectable level within 1 day. This problem was never detected in the serum of nude mice bearing the other 27 human malignant tumors or controls. Purification of this protein was carried out by the column chromatography using DE-52, Blue-Sepharose, and SP-Sephadex. The elution patterns were the same as those of alpha 1-Ach in human serum, and the molecular weight of the protein was estimated as 69,000 by Sephadex G-100 column chromatography and 65,000 by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with sodium dodecyl sulfate. This purified protein, however, did not exhibit inhibitory activity against chymotrypsin. These results show that this melanoma produced a protein immunologically identical and physicochemically very similar to human alpha 1-Ach. This melanoma-nude mouse system may provide a useful model for investigating the synthesis of human alpha 1-Ach and analysis of its physiological roles.
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PMID:Production of human alpha 1-antichymotrypsin-like protein by a human malignant melanoma transplanted into nude mice. 689 63

A human colony-stimulating factor (CSF)-producing cell line, T3M-5, has been established in vitro from a squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid gland transplanted into athymic nude mice [congenitally athymic BALB/c (nu/nu) mice; Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki, Japan]. Contaminating fibroblasts derived from a host nude mouse were eliminated by treatment with antiserum raised against nude mouse cells. T3M-5 cells have been continuously propagated during 3 years. The cells grew in a monolayered sheet with about 22 hours of population-doubling time and showed about 40% plating efficiency. The cells exhibited an epithelium-like morphology resembling the structure of the original tumor and showed tumor takes when inoculated into nude mice. Chromosome analysis revealed the cell line to be a human aneuploid line with a hypertriploid mode. The cells possessed the characteristic function of human CSF production in vitro and produced marked neutrophilia in tumor-bearing nude mice that were inoculated with the cultured cells. The molecular weight of the CSF was estimated at about 27,000 and was stable over the pH range 1.0-9.0 at 4 degrees C for 21 hours. The CSF activity was destroyed by either trypsin or chymotrypsin, but it resisted neuraminidase, DNase, and RNase. The cells could be well propagated in roller bottles. About 100 liters of the conditioned medium was obtained with the roller bottle culture method, which formed approximately 500,000,000 colonies of human bone marrow cells. The rate of recovery of CSF activity from the gel-filtration column was high (68.9%). This cell line is therefore expected to aid in the large-scale preparation of human CSF.
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PMID:Establishment and characterization of a human colony-stimulating factor-producing cell line from a squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid gland. 698 94

The Baumgartner perfusion apparatus has been applied to the study of the interaction of platelets and tumor cells and their attachment to subendothelial structures. Cells derived from an anaplastic murine tumor (Hut 20 line) induced platelet aggregation and were included in platelet thrombi that deposited on vascular subendothelium in perfusion experiments with heparinized human blood. In contrast, perfusion of blood samples containing cells from a line derived from a human epithelial carcinoma of the lung (A549 line), which did not interact with platelets, resulted in the deposition of platelets alone, with no tumor cells or blood cells other than platelets being observed in the thrombus. Extremely large platelet-tumor cell thrombi were found at the vascular surface in Hut 20 perfusions using vessel segments which had been treated with alpha-chymotrypsin. These large heterogeneous thrombi perturbed blood flow through the system and entrapped both erythrocytes and white cells. In order to quantitate the deposition of tumor cells, Hut 20 cells were labeled with 125I-deoxyuridine and perfused in whole blood at a concentration of 3.7x10(5)/ml. Tumor cell incorporation into platelet-tumor cell thrombi on chymotrypsinized segments yielded about 30,000 cpm/mg of vascular tissue but this value was reduced some 2 orders of magnitude by the inclusion of PGE1 (1 ng/ml of perfusing blood; 2.8 microM) in parallel samples. Aspirin at 100 microM reduced tumor cell-dependent platelet aggregation but did not decrease the platelet-dependent deposition of radiolabeled Hut 20 cells on vascular subendothelium, suggesting the release reaction may not be of major significance in this interaction. Tumor cell-induced platelet aggregation was not observed in a perfusion experiment using blood from a patient with severe von Willebrand's disease. However addition of 0.1 vol of ABO-compatible, heterologous plasma as a source of factor VIII to the von Willebrand blood sample restored the platelet-dependent deposition of radiolabeled tumor cells to control values.
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PMID:The use of a perfusion model for studying aggregation and attachment of platelets and tumor cells at subendothelial surfaces. 711 4


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