Modulation of gap junctional intercellular communication by EGF in human kidney epithelial cells

Carcinogenesis
E RivedalG Vikhamar

Abstract

Modulation of gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) was studied in a multistep model of human renal epithelial carcinogenesis. We report that the majority of primary human kidney epithelial cells (NHKE) grown from fetal kidney explants did not communicate through gap junctions. Communication could, however, be observed within a subpopulation of the cells. Ni(II)-immortalized cells (IHKE) showed GJIC at a level of 10-20 communicating cells, but with heterogeneous regions on the dish, with regard to both communication and distribution of connexin43. The heterogeneity was less pronounced in a ras-transfected tumourigenic cell line (THKE), which also showed communication of approximately 10-20 dye-coupled cells. Communication within the IHKE sub-clone K7 decreased from 55 dye-coupled cells communicating on day 1 after seeding to approximately 13 in cells grown for 4 days. Daily change of growth medium reduced the decrease in GJIC. EGF enhanced communication following a lag period which depended on days in culture. The largest increase in GJIC was observed in 2-day-old cultures, where the number of communicating cells in some experiments increased from approximately 45 to 130 dye-coupled cells 4 h following change to med...Continue Reading

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