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Iodide-dependent regulation of thyroid follicular cell proliferation: a mediating role of autocrine insulin-like growth factor-I.

An inhibitory action of intracellular iodide on the autocrine production of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) by thyroid follicular cells (TFCs) in vitro has been investigated as a possible mechanism underlying the iodide-dependent control of TFC proliferation. IGF-I release from primary monolayer cultures of porcine TFCs increased 5-fold between 24 and 168 h of incubation. Confirmation of a mediating role of IGF-I in TFC proliferation was obtained by exposing TFCs to an immunoadsorbing IGF-I antiserum, which led to a significant (P < 0.05) decline in [methyl-3H]thymidine incorporation, relative to TFCs exposed to preimmune serum. Exposure of TFCs to sodium iodide (NaI; 0.1-100 mumol/l) led to an attenuation of the IGF-I content of the cell-conditioned medium. This was accompanied by a reduction in [methyl-3H]thymidine incorporation that was affected by IGF-I immunoneutralization. The inhibitory effect of NaI on IGF-I production and [methyl-3H]thymidine incorporation were reversed by the thionamide compound methimazole (MMI; 1 mmol/l), exposure to which also led to significant (P < 0.001) increases above control values. However, a residual suppressive effect of NaI on [methyl-3H]thymidine incorporation suggested that certain of the TFC growth-attenuating effects of iodide may not be dependent upon organification. While providing evidence, therefore, for a direct relationship between iodide exposure, suppression of autocrine IGF-I production and a regulation of TFC proliferation, the present studies also suggest that suppression of TFC proliferation by iodide may be partially mediated by MMI-insensitive events.