H‐Ras increases release of sphingosine resulting in down‐regulation of TSP‐1 in non‐transformed cells
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tumour progression is continuously driven by a sequence of genetic events. The presence of mutant or activated Ras proteins represents an interesting paradigm for the investigation of oncogene-dependent induction of tumour angiogenesis. These genes are widely distributed in human cancers. Previously we have shown that cells harbouring mutant H-Ras release soluble unidentified factor(s) associated with lowered expression of an angiogenesis inhibitor - Thrombospondin-1 - (TSP-1) in adjacent normal tissue. In this study, we have addressed the question as to whether or not introduction of the H-ras oncogene leads to increased production of sphingosine. To assess the amount of sphingosine in conditioned media, we developed a technique based on sphingolipid isolation and GC-MSMS detection of specific silylated sphingosine derivatives. Cells harbouring mutant H-Ras, release significant amounts of sphingosine in contrast to normal isogenic cells or premalignant cells. Increased concentration of sphingosine in conditioned media was correlated with their ability to down-regulate the expression of TSP-1. Moreover, medium collected in the presence of U0126, an inhibitor of MAPK kinase (MEK), contained undetectable amounts of sphingosine and had no ability to down-regulate TSP-1 expression. Overall, our studies suggest a H-Ras-dependent mechanism of changing the equilibrium of angiogenic factors in favour of induction of angiogenesis, where a central role is played by sphingosine, a low molecular entity. This represents an example of how a mechanism of translating genetic changes within transformed cells could be amplified into a much larger effect involving the tumour parenchyma and stroma, and this could greatly in turn accelerate local tumour growth and metastasis.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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