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Endocrinology, Vol 130, 1916-1922, Copyright © 1992 by Endocrine Society

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Determination and expression of platelet-derived growth factor-AA in bone cell cultures

S Rydziel, C Ladd, TL McCarthy, M Centrella and E Canalis
Department of Research, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut 6105.

We describe a sensitive technique for the extraction and quantitation of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-AA in serum-free culture medium conditioned by fetal rat osteoblast-enriched (Ob) cells and demonstrate the expression of PDGF-A mRNA in Ob cells. Using C18 Sep- Pak chromatography with a methanol step gradient, we extracted immunoreactive PDGF-AA from the culture medium. A RIA protocol employing a recombinant human PDGF-AA standard enabled us to measure picomolar equivalents of PDGF-AA in Ob cell culture medium. The recovery of recombinant human PDGF-AA was 50 +/- 4%, and the coefficient of variation, including chromatographic extraction, was 15% for intraassay and 8.3% for interassay variability. The polyclonal antibody to recombinant human PDGF-AA displayed approximately 20-30% cross-reactivity with PDGF-AB, but did not bind PDGF-BB or other growth factors and cytokines known to be secreted by bone cells. Medium from Ob cells cultured for 24 h contained 0.9-1.3 pM human PDGF-AA equivalents, and exposure to cycloheximide (3.6 microM) decreased those levels by 65%. Treatment of cells with recombinant human transforming growth factor-beta 1 at 0.04-4 nM for 24 h increased PDGF-AA levels by up to 3.5-fold. Northern blot analysis of RNA from Ob cells revealed the expression of PDGF-A, but not PDGF-B, transcripts, and transforming growth factor-beta 1 at 0.04 and 0.2 nM increased steady state PDGF-A mRNA by 3- to 6-fold. Our studies describe a sensitive and reproducible technique for monitoring PDGF-AA levels in cell-conditioned medium and demonstrate that Ob cells synthesize PDGF-AA.


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