Vasculotropin/Vascular endothelial growth factor is an autocrine growth factor for human retinal pigment epithelial cells cultued in vitro
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cellular Physiology
- Vol. 164 (2), 385-394
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041640219
Abstract
Vasculotropin (VAS), also called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or vascular permeability factor, is a secreted growth factor whose target cell specificity has been reported as restricted to vascular endothelium. Its effects are mediated by at least two distinct membrane‐spanning tyrosine kinase receptors, KDR and flt‐1, the expression of which also seems restricted to vascular endothelium. We describe here that cultured human retinal pigment epithelial (HRPE) cells express both KDR and flt‐1 receptors, bind VAS/VEGF on two high affinity sites (apparent Kd of 9 and 210 pM corresponding to 940 and 18,800 sites per cell) and proliferate or migrate upon recombinant VAS/VEGF addition. HRPE cells also express the mRNA corresponding to the 121 and 165 amino acid forms of VAS/VEGF. HRPE cells release in their own culture medium and store in their extracellular matrix self‐mitogenic and chemoattractant factors indistinguishable from 121 and 165 VAS/VEGF isoforms. The autocrine role of VAS/VEGF was confirmed by the inhibition of these bioactivities by neutralizing specific anti‐VAS/VEGF antibodies.Keywords
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