Serum enhances the cycling and survival of HeLa cells treated with 5,6-dichloro-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole.

AUTOR(ES)

Tamm, I

RESUMO

We have defined the growth kinetics of HeLa cell populations by determining the frequencies of mitoses and deaths and the lengths of intermitotic intervals. This was done by time-lapse cinemicrography. Untreated control cells proliferated at closely similar rates in medium enriched with 5% or 15% fetal calf serum, with an average of 4% dividing and less than 0.1% dying per hr. The mean intermitotic interval was 16 hr during exponential growth of the control populations. In contrast, in cultures treated with 40 or 60 microM 5,6-dichloro-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole (DRB), a selective inhibitor of heterogeneous nuclear RNA synthesis, the frequency of mitoses was markedly and directly dependent on serum concentration, whereas the frequency of deaths was inversely dependent. DRB prolonged the intermitotic interval in cells cycling in the presence of the drug, but the effect was less in 15% than in 5% serum. After prolonged treatment of HeLa cells with DRB, the inhibition of heterogeneous nuclear RNA synthesis by DRB appeared to be reduced, which was not due to inactivation of DRB in the culture medium.

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