Antitubulin agents enhance the stimulation of DNA synthesis by polypeptide growth factors in 3T3 mouse fibroblasts.
AUTOR(ES)
Friedkin, M
RESUMO
Colchicine and other antitubulin agents markedly enhanced the stimulation of DNA synthesis by combinations of various growth factors such as epidermal growth factor, insulin, fibroblast-derived growth factor, and vasopressin in serum-free cultures of several quiescent 3T3 mouse fibroblast cell lines. Enhancing effects were observed based on continuous incorporation of [3H]thymidine into DNA as well as by autoradiographic labeling of cell nuclei. The concentration of colchicine and podophyllotoxin required to produce half-maximal enhancement of DNA synthesis stimulated by epidermal growth factor and insulin was 25-50 nM. Lumicolchicine did not produce enhancing effects. The disassembly of microtubules resulting from the action of colchicine, Colcemid, and vinblastine did not inhibit the stimulation of DNA synthesis in quiescent Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts by fetal bovine serum. We conclude that the cytoplasmic microtubule network in 3T3 mouse fibroblasts does not exert a positive regulatory function in the initiation of DNA synthesis but rather can produce a constraint on the initial action of the peptide growth factors in serum-free media.
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