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Endocrinology, Vol 117, 2061-2072, Copyright © 1985 by Endocrine Society
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DJ Hill, CJ Crace, SP Nissley, D Morrell, AT Holder and RD Milner
The relative release of rat somatomedin-C (SM-C)/insulin-like growth factor I (IGF I) and multiplication-stimulating activity (MSA) immunoreactivity and bioactivity from isolated fetal rat myoblasts was assessed by a partial characterization of the SM peptides present in concentrated myoblast-conditioned culture medium (MCM). The SM bioactivity of MCM, measured by [3H]thymidine or [35S]sulfate uptake by fetal rat cartilage explants, eluted with an apparent size of 50-80K on Sephadex G-200 at pH 7.5, and was associated with SM-C/IGF I immunoreactivity. Chromatography of MCM on Bio-Gel P-10 or Sephadex G- 75 at acidic pH resulted in a peak of SM bioactivity associated with both SM-C/IGF I and MSA immunoreactivity in the 6-9K region. SM-binding activity, measured by competition with activated charcoal for [125I]SM- C or MSA, eluted in the void volume. When these fractions were incubated with [125I]SM-C and chromatographed on Sephadex G-200 at neutral pH, a heterogeneous pattern of binding proteins was seen, with a major component of 50-80K. After chromatofocusing of proteins in the 6-9K region from Bio-Gel P-10, three peaks of SM bioactivity were recovered, each associated with SM-C immunoreactivity, with pI values of 8.5, 7.1, and 6.5. Although both the basic and neutral peaks enhanced [3H]thymidine uptake by growth-restricted fetal rat myoblasts in vitro, only the bioactivity of the former could be blocked by incubation with a monoclonal antibody to human SM-C. Both human SM- C/IGF I and MSA purified from Buffalo rat liver cell-conditioned medium enhanced thymidine incorporation by growth-restricted fetal rat myoblasts. The results suggest that unlike reports of other fetal rat tissues, fetal rat myoblasts released approximately equal amounts of rat SM-C/IGF I and MSA during culture. The myoblast-derived SM-C/IGF I was biologically active on the cell type of origin and may play a paracrine role in muscle development.
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