Abstract
The protease sensitivity of a number of cell surface or cytoskeletal components and the relationship of these to the substratum in attached cells has prevented the quantitative measurement of their expression by flow cytometry. Using traditional cell sorting techniques, cells must be treated with a protease to detach them from a substrate in order to produce a single-cell suspension. Unfortunately, proteolytic treatment alters or destroys a number of cellular proteins. Fibronectin either on the cell surface or as part of the substratum laid down by the cell is particularly sensitive to proteases, preventing its quantitative study by flow cytometry. To circumvent these problems and produce a single cell suspension necessary for flow cytometric analysis, CHO-K1, a Chinese hamster ovary cell line, were grown in suspension on specially-treated 25 microns biocarrier beads. The CHO-K1 cell line is composed of transformed epithelial-like cells that have lost the fibronectin deposit around their cell membranes. To restore the typical fibroblastic deposit of fibronectin, the cells attached to beads were induced by dibutyryl cAMP to undergo a reverse transformation reaction to restore fibroblastic morphology and the typical fibroblastic ...Continue Reading
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