Author:
Scher C D,Dick R L,Whipple A P,Locatell K L
Abstract
The platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) stimulates density-arrested BALB/c-3T3 cells to synthesize a protein (pII; Mr, 35,000) that is constitutively synthesized by spontaneously transformed BALB/c-3T3 (ST2-3T3) cells which do not require PDGF for growth. Antisera against a major excreted protein family (MEP) of retrovirus-transformed cells quantitatively precipitated cellular pII. PDGF-stimulated pII has the same molecular weight, a similar charge, and similar antigenic determinants as authentic MEP isolated from ST2-3T3 or retrovirus-transformed cells. MEP represented about 2% of the nonnuclear proteins synthesized by ST2-3T3 cells and 0.3 to 0.6% of the proteins synthesized by PDGF-treated BALB/c-3T3 cells, a three- to sixfold increase over the background. In BALB/c-3T3 cells, less PDGF was required for pII (MEP) synthesis than for DNA synthesis. PDGF induced a selective increase in pII (MEP) within 40 min. Such preferential synthesis was inhibited by brief treatment with actinomycin D, suggesting a requirement for newly formed RNA. The constitutive synthesis of pII (MEP) by ST2-3T3 cells was not inhibited by actinomycin D. Five spontaneously or chemical carcinogen-transformed tumorigenic BALB/c-3T3 cell lines were studied; they neither required PDGF for growth nor responded to it. These cell lines became arrested at confluence with a G1 DNA content. Each of these independently isolated lines synthesized pII (MEP) constitutively. Thus, the synthesis of pII (MEP) may be required, but is not sufficient, for PDGF-modulated DNA synthesis.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
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