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Essential Roles of IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-rP1 in Breast Cancer

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Journal Eur J Cancer
Specialty Oncology
Date 2005 Jun 28
PMID 15979304
Citations 58
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Abstract

Insulin and insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) have critical functions in growth regulatory signalling pathways. They are part of a tightly controlled network of ligands, receptors, binding proteins and their proteases. However, the system becomes uncontrolled in neoplasia. The insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) and the insulin-like growth factor binding protein-related protein 1 (IGFBP-rP1) have unique properties among the sixteen known members of the IGFBP superfamily. IGFBP-3 has very high affinity for IGFs (k(d) approximately 10(-10) M), it transports >75% of serum IGF-I and -II, whereas it's affinity for insulin is very low. On the other hand, IGFBP-rP1 binds insulin with very high affinity (500-fold higher compared to other IGFBPs), but has low affinity for IGF-I and -II proteins (k(d) = 3 x 10(-8) M). In this review, we have examined the roles of IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-rP1 in breast cancer, and discuss the potential impact of these two proteins in mammary carcinoma risk assessment and the development of treatments for breast cancer.

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