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Volume 37, Issue 2, 15 July 1985, Pages 105-113
Life Sciences

Current concepts: Biological actions of bombesin related peptides
I. High affinity receptors for bombesin/GRP-like peptides on human small cell lung cancer

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Abstract

The binding of a radiolabeled bombesin analogue to human small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was investigated. (125I-Tyr4) bombesin bound with high affinity (Kd = 0.5 nM) to a single class of sites (2,000/cell) using SCLC line NCI-H446. Binding was reversible, saturable and specific. The pharmacology of binding was investigated using NCI-H466 and SCLC line NCI-H345. Bombesin and structurally related peptides, such as gastrin releasing peptide (GRP), but not other peptides, such as substance P or vasopressin, inhibited high affinity (125I-Tyr4)BN binding activity. Finally, the putative receptor, a 78,000 dalton polypeptide, was identified by purifying radiolabeled cell lysates on bombesin or GRP affinity resins and them displaying the bound polypeptides on sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gels. Because SCLC both produces bombesin/GRP-like peptides and contains high affinity receptors for these peptides, they may function as important autocrine regulatory factors for human SCLC.

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