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埼玉医科大学雑誌 第31巻 第1号 (2004年1月) 33-39頁 ◇論文(図表を含む全文)は，PDFファイルとなっています． PDF (1.3 MB) 原 著 Survivinの甲状腺濾胞上皮細胞増殖および分化に対する影響 鈴木 美穂 埼玉医科大学内科学教室（内分泌糖尿病内科部門）〔平成15年11月28日 受付〕 Role of Survivin on the Proliferation and Differentiation of Thyroid Epithelial Cells Miho Suzuki （Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical School, Moroyama, Iruma-gun, Saitama 350-0495, Japan） Survivin is one of the IAP (inhibitor of apoptosis proteins), which is expressed during embryonic development, but is not expressed in terminal differentiated adult tissue. Overexpression of survivin is observed in a variety of human tumors including thyroid cancers. We examined the role of survivin on the proliferation and differentiation of thyroid epithelial cells. Rat thyroid epithelial cell line FRTL-5 was stably transfected with human sense and antisense survivin genes. FRTL-5 cells transfected with a survivin sense gene (S cells) proliferated without TSH. In the presence of TSH, the proliferation of S cells was significantly faster than that of cells transfected with an empty vector (E cells) or cells transfected with a survivin antisense gene (AS cells). The proliferation of AS cells were retarded as compared with that of E cells. Western blot analysis demonstrated that phosphorylation of Rb protein at serine 795 was enhanced in S cells. Activation of E2F-1 was also enhanced in S cells as demonstrated by gel shift assay. Northern blot analysis showed that expression of Pax-8 mRNA was significantly enhanced in S cells, and was significantly decreased in AS cells. Expression of thyroglobulin (Tg) and TSH receptor (TSHR) mRNA was decreased in AS cells. There was no significant change in TTF-1 and TTF-2 mRNA expression. These observations suggest that survivin enhances the proliferation of thyroid epithelial cells through activation of E2F-1, and also enhance the expression of Pax-8, which then affect the expression of thyroid specific proteins. Survivin appears to play an important role in the proliferation as well as differentiation of thyroid epithelial cells. Keywords: Survivin, thyroid cancer, cell cycle, differentiation, Rb protein, E2F-1, Pax-8, Tg, NIS, TSHR J Saitama Med School 2004;31:33-39 (Received November 28, 2003)
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