The expression of regulatory genes within the context of a differentiation program can have profound long-term consequences in tissues with permanent renewing populations. The breast tumor cell line MCF-7 retains in culture some of the characteristics of a unidirectional differentiation pathway. We show that the cytosolic activity of the regulatory enzyme protein kinase C (PKC) precedes and continues the sequence of maturation in pre-differentiated subpopulations derived from a stem cell fraction. However, the activity declines in the most differentiated, post-mitotic fraction. These results indicate that PKC may be considered among the regulatory genes in MCF-7 cells that specify maturation of the stem cell progeny. © 1993 Academic Press. All rights reserved.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | The increase in cytosolic levels of protein kinase C precedes the growth factor requirements during the transition stem cells to differentiated progeny in the MCF-7 breast tumor cells. |
Autor: | Gomez, M.L.; Resnicoff, M.; Medrano, E.E.; Tellez-Inon, M.T. |
Filiación: | Instituto de Ingeniera Genetica y Biologia Molecular (INGEBI, CONICET) Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquimicas Luis F. Leloir, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA), Buenos Aires. Argentina and Present Address: Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Thomas Jefferson University, Bluemle Life Sciences Building Philadelphia, PA 19107 and Department of Dermatology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 231 Bethesda Avenue, Cincinnati Ohio, 45267-0592 USA. |
Palabras clave: | growth factor; protein kinase c; article; breast tumor; cell differentiation; cell maturation; cell subpopulation; cytosol; enzyme activity; gene expression; human; human cell; priority journal; regulator gene; stem cell; tumor cell line; Breast Neoplasms; Cell Differentiation; Cytosol; Female; Genes, Regulator; Growth Substances; Human; Protein Kinase C; Tumor Cells, Cultured; Tumor Stem Cells |
Año: | 1993 |
Volumen: | 17 |
Número: | 5 |
Página de inicio: | 495 |
Página de fin: | 502 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cbir.1993.1090 |
Título revista: | Cell Biology International |
Título revista abreviado: | Cell Biol. Int. |
ISSN: | 10656995 |
CODEN: | CBIIE |
CAS: | protein kinase C, 141436-78-4; Growth Substances; Protein Kinase C, EC 2.7.1.37 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_10656995_v17_n5_p495_Gomez |