• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Estrogen Binding, Receptor mRNA, and Biologic Response in Osteoblast-Like Osteosarcoma Cells
  • Beteiligte: Komm, Barry S.; Terpening, Christopher M.; Benz, David J.; Graeme, Kimberlie A.; Gallegos, Alfred; Korc, Murray; Greene, Geoffrey L.; O'Malley, Bert W.; Haussler, Mark R.
  • Erschienen: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1988
  • Erschienen in: Science, 241 (1988) 4861, Seite 81-84
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.3164526
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
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  • Beschreibung: High specific activity estradiol labeled with iodine-125 was used to detect approximately 200 saturable, high-affinity (dissociation constant ≅ 1.0 n M ) nuclear binding sites in rat (ROS 17/2.8) and human (HOS TE85) clonal osteoblast-like osteosarcoma cells. Of the steroids tested, only testosterone exhibited significant cross-reactivity with estrogen binding. RNA blot analysis with a complementary DNA probe to the human estrogen receptor revealed putative receptor transcripts of 6 to 6.2 kilobases in both rat and human osteosarcoma cells. Type I procollagen and transforming growth factor-β messenger RNA levels were enhanced in cultured human osteoblast-like cells treated with 1 n M estradiol. Thus, estrogen can act directly on osteoblasts by a receptor-mediated mechanism and thereby modulate the extracellular matrix and other proteins involved in the maintenance of skeletal mineralization and remodeling.