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From the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery,*
the Department of Nature
Medicine,
the Department of Anatomy
I,
the Department of Surgery
II,§
and the Department of Molecular
Pathology,¶
, Nagasaki University School of
Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan
Keloid is a dermal fibroproliferative tissue of unknown etiology. Protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) play an important role in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation. Activation of PTK cascades in keloid fibroblasts is thought to be closely linked to abnormal cell proliferation and migration. We determined the expression profile of PTK genes in normal skin and keloid fibroblasts using the homology cloning method with a degenerated primer. Eight PTK genes were expressed among a total of 46 receptor-type clones. The most abundant type of PTK receptors was the platelet-derived growth factor receptor in both fibroblasts. However, insulin-like growth factor-I receptor (IGF-IR) was overexpressed only in keloid-derived fibroblasts (9 of 24). Immunohistochemical analysis confirmed the high expression of IGF-IR in keloid fibroblasts, but not in normal fibroblasts. To examine the functional properties of the IGF-I/IGF-IR pathway, we investigated cell proliferation and invasion activities of both types of fibroblasts. The mitogenic effect of IGF-I on both fibroblasts was very weak compared with serum stimulation. In contrast, the invasive activity of keloid fibroblasts was markedly increased in the presence of IGF-I, and inhibited by a neutralizing antibody against IGF-IR. Our results indicate the involvement of activated IGF-I/IGF-IR in the pathogenesis of keloid by enhancing the invasive activity of fibroblasts.
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