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Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF)-Binding Protein-Related Protein-1: An Autocrine/Paracrine Factor That Inhibits Skeletal Myoblast Differentiation but Permits Proliferation in Response to IGF¹

Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, Tacoma, Washington 98493; and the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Departments of Medicine (K.L.H., L.S.Q.) and Pathology (H.M.P.W., K.S.), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: LeBris S. Quinn, Ph.D., 151 Veterans Administration Puget Sound, American Lake, Tacoma, Washington 98493. E-mail: quinnl{at}u.washington.edu

Skeletal myogenic cells respond to the insulin-like growth factors (IGF-I and IGF-II) by differentiating or proliferating, which are mutually exclusive pathways. What determines which of these responses to IGF skeletal myoblast undergo is unclear. IGF-binding protein-related protein 1 (IGFBP-rP1) is a secreted protein with close homology to the IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs) in the N-terminal region. IGFBP-rP1, previously called mac25 and IGFBP-7, is highly expressed in C2 skeletal myoblasts during the proliferative phase, but is down-regulated during myoblast differentiation. To determine the role of IGFBP-rP1 in myogenesis, IGFBP-rP1 was overexpressed in C2 myoblasts using a retroviral vector. Western blots indicated that the resulting C2-rP1 myoblasts secreted approximately 27-fold higher levels of IGFBP-rP1 than control C2-LX myoblasts that were transduced with a control vector (LXSN). Compared with C2-LX myoblasts, the differentiation responses of C2-rP1 myoblasts to IGF-I, IGF-II, insulin, and des(1–3)IGF-I were significantly reduced (P < 0.05). However, proliferation responses of C2-rP1 and C2-LX myoblasts to these same factors were not significantly different. Exposure of control C2-LX myoblasts to factors secreted by C2-rP1 myoblasts using a transwell coculture system reduced C2-LX myoblast differentiation significantly (P < 0.05). Experiments with the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase inhibitor PD098059 suggested that IGFBP-rP1 inhibits a MAPK-dependent differentiation pathway. In confirmation of this idea, levels of phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase-2 (a MAPK) were reduced in C2-rP1 myoblasts compared with those in C2-LX myoblasts. These findings indicate that IGFBP-rP1 may function as an autocrine/paracrine factor that specifies the proliferative response to the IGFs in myogenesis.

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