Cytokeratins and cytokeratin filaments in subpopulations of cultured human and rodent cells of nonepithelial origin: modes and patterns of formation.

Differentiation; Research in Biological Diversity
A C KnappW W Franke

Abstract

Using immunofluorescence microscopy, we observed that in several established cell culture lines derived from different nonepithelial tissues and species, cells spontaneously emerge, usually at low frequencies, which contain cytoplasmic structures decorated by antibodies specific for cytokeratins 8 and 18. This phenomenon was further examined at both the protein (gel electrophoreses of cytoskeletal proteins, followed by immunoblotting) and the RNA (Northern blots, "nuclear run-on" analysis, in situ hybridization) level. Positive cell lines included simian virus (SV40)-transformed human fibroblasts (HF-SV80, WI-38 VA13), human astrocytic glioma cells (U333 CG/343MG), rat (RVF-SMC) and hamster (BHK-21/13) cells derived from vascular smooth muscle and murine sarcoma MS-180 cells. In two cell lines (HF-SV80 and BHK-21/13), the frequency of the cytokeratin-containing cells and of the cytokeratin fibril arrays per cell was drastically increased upon treatment with 5-azacytidine. The structural appearance of the cytokeratins was variable in the different cell lines but could also differ among cells of the same culture: While small granular or comma-shaped structures or bizarrely shaped filament arrays prevailed in WI-38, RVF and normal...Continue Reading

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