Surface T-antigen expression in simian virus 40-transformed mouse cells: correlation with cell growth rate.

AUTOR(ES)

Santos, M

RESUMO

Cell growth control appears to be drastically altered as a consequence of transformation. Because the cell surface appears to have a role in modulating cell growth and simian virus 40 (SV40)-transformed cells express large T antigen (T-Ag) in the plasma membrane, we investigated whether surface T-Ag expression varies according to cell growth rate. Different growth states were obtained by various combinations of seeding density, serum concentration, and temperature, and cell cycle distributions were determined by flow microcytofluorometry. Actively dividing SV40-transformed mouse cell cultures were consistently found to express higher levels of surface T-Ag and T-Ag/p53 complex than cultures in which cells were mostly resting. In addition, the T-Ag/p53 complex disappeared from the surface of tsA7-transformed cells cultured under restrictive conditions known to induce complete growth arrest (39.5 degrees C), although the surface complex did not disappear from other tsA transformants able to keep cycling at 39.5 degrees C. These results suggest that surface SV40 T-Ag or surface T-Ag/p53 complex, or both, are involved in determining the growth characteristics of SV40-transformed cells.

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