In oncogenic osteomalacia (OOM), a tumor produces an unknown substance that inhibits phosphate reabsorption in the proximal tubules. This causes urinary phosphate wasting and, as a consequence, hypophosphatemic osteomalacia. To characterize this poorly understood biological tumor activity we generated aqueous extracts from several OOM tumors. Extracts from three of four tumors inhibited, dose- and time-dependently, (32)P-orthophosphate uptake by opossum kidney (OK) cells; maximum inhibition was about 45% of untreated control. Further characterization revealed that the factor is resistant to heat and several proteases, and that it has a low molecular weight. The tumor extracts also stimulated cAMP accumulation in OK cells, but not in osteoblastic ROS 17/2.8 and UMR106 cells, or in LLC-PK1 kidney cells expressing the parathyroid hormone (PTH)/PTH-related peptide receptor or the PTH-2 receptor. HPLC separation of low molecular weight fractions of the tumor extracts revealed that the flow-through of all three positive tumor extracts inhibited (32)P uptake and stimulated cAMP accumulation in OK cells. Additionally, a second peak with inhibitory activity on phosphate transport, but without cAMP stimulatory activity, was identified in the most potent tumor extract. We have concluded that several low molecular weight molecules with the ability to inhibit phosphate transport in OK cells can be found in extracts from OOM tumors. It remains uncertain, however, whether these are related to the long-sought phosphaturic factor responsible for the phosphate wasting seen in OOM patients.
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