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Evidence that Adenosine 3',5'-Monophosphate Mediates Stimulation of Thyroid Growth in FRTL₅ Cells^*

S. JIN, F. J. HORNICEK, D. NEYLAN, M. ZAKARIJA and J. M. McKENZIE

Departments of Medicine and Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, Florida 33101

Address requests for reprints to: M. Zakarija, M.D., Department of Medicine (R-93), University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016760, Miami, Florida 33101.

Abstract

Thyroid function, including growth, is TSH dependent, and most metabolic functions of TSH are thought to be mediated by cAMP. Recently, it has been suggested by several groups that growth may be an exception and that it may not be related to cAMP action. In addition, evidence has accrued indicating that the thyroid-stimulating antibody (TSAb) of Graves’ disease, the metabolic actions of which are also cAMP mediated, may not be the goitrogenic agent in that syndrome. To evaluate these concepts, we used functioning rat thyroid cells (FRTL₅) in monolayer culture and, as indices of growth, the incorporation of [³H]thymidine ([³H]Tdr) into DNA, the concentration of DNA measured directly, and the percentage of cells in S phase, as assessed by flow cytometry, all studied over 72 h of incubation. TSH, forskolin, and cholera toxin enhanced growth by each criterion and increased the concentration of cAMP in parallel; the effect on cAMP occurred rapidly and was maximal well in advance of influences on growth. In all instances, measures of growth promotion were minimal at 24 h and maximal at 48 h, except for [³H]Tdr incorporation, which was greater at 72 h than at 48 h.

3-Isobutyl-l-methylxanthine (IBMX) and (Bu)₂ cAMP were also tested. Both enhanced all indices of growth and were as effective as TSH. Maximal responses to TSH were obtained at 100–200 µU/ml, maximal responses to both IBMX and (Bu)₂cAMP occurred at 5 x 10^–4 M, and all three stimulators increased the DNA concentration and [³H]Tdr uptake and induced S phase in at least 20% of all cells in culture. The peak effect on DNA and S phase was consistently at 48 h.

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) was shown to increase [³H] Tdr incorporation in a nondose-dependent fashion (10^–10 to 5 x 10^–9 M gave 250% of control) over 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 days, with no increase in DNA and a slight decrement in the concentration of cAMP.

A laboratory standard TSAb-immunoglobulin G was shown to parallel TSH in both increasing cAMP (over 2 h of incubation) and growth stimulation (over 72 h).

The data are entirely consistent with the view that TSHstimulated thyroid growth is mediated by cAMP and that the established action of TSAb on adenylate cyclase is sufficient to explain goiter as well as hyperthyroidism in Graves’ disease. (Endocrinology 119: 802–810, 1986)

Footnotes

^* This work was supported by NIH Grant AM-31391.

Kathleen and Stanley Glaser Professor of Medicine.

Received January 27, 1986.

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