Susan Hamamoto, Walter Imagawa, Jason Yang, Satyabrata Nandi
{"title":"Morphogenesis of mouse mammary epithelial cells growing within collagen gels: ultrastructural and immunocytochemical characterization","authors":"Susan Hamamoto, Walter Imagawa, Jason Yang, Satyabrata Nandi","doi":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90011-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90011-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mammary epithelial cells from adult virgin mice have been cultured within collagen gels in totally serum-free medium containing either epidermal growth factor or the mammogenic hormones, progesterone and prolactin, or prolactin alone. The cellular organization, differentiation and cell-type composition of the colonies from the three culture conditions were assessed by transmission electron microscopy and light-microscope immunocytochemistry. The epithelial cells form branching duct-like structures and, when exposed to mammogenic hormones, assume a secretory morphology (including casein micelles) similar to that seen in the early to mid-pregnant mouse.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75684,"journal":{"name":"Cell differentiation","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 191-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0045-6039(88)90011-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14386260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A cell surface phosphoprotein of 48 kDa specific for myoblast fusion","authors":"J.L. Lognonne, J.P. Wahrmann","doi":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90016-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90016-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The data we present here permit us to affirm that a 48 kDa phosphoprotein is the target of extracellular Ca<sup>2+</sup> during fusion. It is detected only in fusion-competent L<sub>6</sub> myoblasts and not in the fusion-defective spontaneous stable variants we isolated. The phosphorylation of this protein species can be totally inhibited by culturing myoblasts in a medium containing low Ca<sup>2+</sup> concentrations (0.250 mM). However, under such conditions myoblasts do not fuse, but withdraw from the cell cycle and accumulate the muscle isoform of creatine kinase (M-CK). The results we have obtained support the following conclusions: (1) in fusion-competent cells, overall Ca<sup>2+</sup>-dependent phosphorylation of cell surface proteins appears to be necessary, but is not sufficient by itself for myoblast fusion; (2) the phosphorylation of a 48 kDa protein species is required for cell fusion; and (3) the phosphorylation of this 48 kDa protein is independent of other main events of cellular differentiation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75684,"journal":{"name":"Cell differentiation","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 245-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0045-6039(88)90016-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14482877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Horst Grunz , Wallace L. McKeehan , Walter Knöchel , Jochen Born , Heinz Tiedemann , Hildegard Tiedemann
{"title":"Induction of mesodermal tissues by acidic and basic heparin binding growth factors","authors":"Horst Grunz , Wallace L. McKeehan , Walter Knöchel , Jochen Born , Heinz Tiedemann , Hildegard Tiedemann","doi":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90010-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90010-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The inducing activity of two heparin binding growth factors HBGF-1 (prostate epithelial cell growth factor; acidic p<em>I</em>) and HBGF-2 (fibroblast growth factor; basic p<em>I</em>) from bovine brain has been tested on totipotent ectoderm from early amphibian (<em>Xenopus laevis, Ambystoma mexicanum</em>) embryos. Both factors induced, at high concentrations, mostly compact spheres surrounded by a non-epidermal epithelium. When the concentration or time of incubation was reduced, large muscle inductions frequently organized as somites were formed besides endothelial vesicles, mesenchyme and smaller areas of intestine-like epithelium. Further reduction of the concentrations or the time of incubation led to an increase in size and number of endothelium-lined vesicles and of mesenchyme, whereas the induction of muscle decreased. At still lower concentrations the overall rate of inductions decreased. The relationship of the growth factors to the vegetalizing factor from chicken embryos, dilution of which shows a similar shift in induced organs, is discussed. The present and previous experiments suggest that different mesodermal and endodermal tissues are induced by secondary interactions in which additional factors are involved. The induced organs derive from dorsal as well as from ventral mesoderm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75684,"journal":{"name":"Cell differentiation","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 183-189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0045-6039(88)90010-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13598408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The differentiation behaviour of MDCK cells grown on matrix components and in collagen gels","authors":"W. Karst, H.-J. Merker","doi":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90013-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90013-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>MDCK cells are grown on various substrates (Thermanox pure, extracellular matrix (ECM), dried or wet collagen type I or type III), on floating collagen and enclosed in collagen gels, and their differentiation behaviour is investigated electron microscopically. The cells grown on ECM or dried collagen (type I and type III) do not show any changes as compared with the controls (Thermanox). Differentiation processes can only be observed when the cells are grown on wet collagen (type I and type III), especially on floating collagen and enclosed in collagen gels. These differentiation processes comprise changes in the cell shape, an increase in the number of microvilli, an increase in the length of the lateral contact zone with the formation of gap junctions and desmosomes, and an increase in the number and size of the cell organelles. A basement membrane only develops in the form of short segments. Moreover, on floating collagen and in collagen gels three-dimensional, organoid structures develop: cell aggregates with central lumina and tubuli. They are formed by cuboid cells that also exhibit indications of differentiation. Basement membrane fragments occur more often and are longer. It can be concluded from these findings that the chemical structure of the substrate does not play the primary role in the described processes. It is rather the physical properties, probably the plasticity, that are of significance. Due to this property the cells change their shape and the contact areas increase in size. The establishment of contacts might be the triggering factor for differentiation. Organoid structures with lumina develop when the apical surface comes into contact with other cells or collagen gels. The pronounced tendency towards polarization necessitates a re-arrangement of three-dimensionally growing cells to structures with lumina. The formation of the basement membrane is the result and not the cause of differentiation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75684,"journal":{"name":"Cell differentiation","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 211-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0045-6039(88)90013-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14482875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distribution of R-cognin and choline acetyltransferase in the ganglion cell layer of developing chick neural retina","authors":"E.T. Dobi, F.J. Naya, R.E. Hausman","doi":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90023-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90023-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Retina cognin, a cell membrane glycoprotein which mediates cell-cell recognition and adhesion in vitro, is initially present throughout the retina and becomes confined to the ganglion cell layer at 14–15 days of embryogenesis. Within this layer it is found on membranes of virtually all ganglion and displaced amacrine cells, but not on membranes of retinal glial cells (Müller fibers) which traverse this layer. The distribution of cognin as determined by immunocytochemistry is described and compared with that of choline acetyltransferase. The significance of cognin as a possible address marker during development of neural retina is discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75684,"journal":{"name":"Cell differentiation","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 115-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0045-6039(88)90023-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14468706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrophoretic pattern of NADPH-dependent oxidoreductive activities in K 562 and HL 60 leukemic cell lines","authors":"Roberto Ravazzolo, Renata Barresi, Cecilia Garré, Giovanna Bianchi-Scarrá, Franco Ajmar","doi":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90027-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90027-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Morphological and functional differentiation of hemopoietic cells is accompanied by the expression of lineage-specific protein markers. NADPH-oxidoreductive enzymatic activities in HL 60 and K 562 leukemic cell lines, compared with granulocytes and erythrocytes, show a NADPH-oxidizing and a NADPH-diaphorase activity. The oxidizing activity, absent in erythrocytes, has the same electrophoretic migration in HL 60 cells and granulocytes while it is different in K 562 cells. The diaphorase, absent in HL 60 cells and granulocytes, has the same migration in erythrocytes and K 562 cells, although with a slightly different quantitative expression. K 562 cells induced to differentiation with arabinofuranosylcytosine show the appearance of a band of NADPH-oxidizing activity of granulocytic type, together with the major band found in these cells.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75684,"journal":{"name":"Cell differentiation","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 155-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0045-6039(88)90027-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14468709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michel Faure, Monique Kalekine, Emmanuelle Boy-Marcotte, Michel Jacquet
{"title":"Developmental control of the expression of the dihydroorotate dehydrogenase and UMP synthase genes in Dictyostelium discoideum","authors":"Michel Faure, Monique Kalekine, Emmanuelle Boy-Marcotte, Michel Jacquet","doi":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90028-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0045-6039(88)90028-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Developmental variations in the expression of two genes of the de novo pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway have been examined in <em>Dictyostelium discoideum</em>. One gene, DdPYR4, encodes the dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.3.1); the other, DdPYR5-6, encodes the UMP synthase which in <em>D. discoideum</em> is a bifunctional enzyme harboring both the orotate phosphoribosyl transferase activity (EC 2.4.2.10) and the OMP decarboxylase activity (EC 4.1.1.23). The relative amount of mRNA for both genes has been estimated by hybridization with the previously cloned DNAs and compared with the amount of actin mRNA. The level of both mRNAs is dramatically reduced after 4 h of development and remains at a low level later in development. In contrast to these variations, the specific activity of the enzymes encoded by these genes during development is similar to that measured during exponential growth. These results lead us to propose that DdPYR4 and DdPYR5-6 genes encode for relatively stable proteins and that their synthesis is reduced to maintain a constant level of enzymes in non-growing cells. This mode of regulation could apply to a large number of housekeeping genes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75684,"journal":{"name":"Cell differentiation","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 159-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0045-6039(88)90028-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13968093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}