Immortalization of normal liver functions in cell culture: rat hepatocyte-hepatoma cell hybrids expressing ornithine carbamoyltransferase activity

Journal of Cellular Physiology
L E WidmanL A Chasin

Abstract

Normal rat hepatocytes have been fused with highly differentiated rat hepatoma cells. Some of the hybrids express a physiologically significant level of activity of the urea cycle enzyme ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OCT), a liver-specific function not found in the hepatoma cells. These hybrids have 10% of the adult rat liver OCT specific activity, incorporate 3H-ornithine into protein arginine, and can be selectively grown in arginine-free medium supplemented with ornithine. Somatic cell hybridization of normal differentiated cells with highly differentiated neoplastic cells of the same tissue type may be useful as a general method for obtaining permanent cell lines with new tissue-specific phenotypes.

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