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Title: Plasma membrane reorganization induced by tumor promoters in an epithelial cell line

Abstract

The effects of phorbol ester tumor promoters on the lateral diffusion in plasma membrane lipid environments were examined by the technique of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. To this end, the probe collarein, a fluorescent lipid analog that has the property of exclusive localization in the plasma membrane, was synthesized. Measured decreases in three parameters (percentage of fluorescence bleached (30%), percentage of recovery (52%), and half-time for recovery (52%)) connoted the appearance of an immobile fraction upon exposure to tumor promoters. These data are consistent with lipid reorganization in response to a reorganization of the intra- and perimembranous macromolecular scaffolding upon the interaction of cells with tumor promoters. The idea of induced reorganization is supported by experiments in which cell shape change, brought about by either exposure to cytochalasin B or growth on matrices of collagen, fibronectin, or laminin, resulted in values in the fluorescence recovery after photobleaching technique similar to those with active phorbol esters. 35 references, 3 figures, 1 table.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6098806
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098; AT03-80ER10700
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 81:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; ANIMAL CELLS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; ONCOGENIC TRANSFORMATIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHORBOL ESTERS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CELL CULTURES; CELL MEMBRANES; DIFFUSION; EPITHELIUM; FLUORESCENCE; LIPIDS; ANIMAL TISSUES; BODY; CARCINOGENS; CELL CONSTITUENTS; ESTERS; LUMINESCENCE; MEMBRANES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; TISSUES; 560301* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Cells- (-1987)

Citation Formats

Packard, B S, Saxton, M J, Bissell, M J, and Klein, M P. Plasma membrane reorganization induced by tumor promoters in an epithelial cell line. United States: N. p., 1984. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.81.2.449.
Packard, B S, Saxton, M J, Bissell, M J, & Klein, M P. Plasma membrane reorganization induced by tumor promoters in an epithelial cell line. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.81.2.449
Packard, B S, Saxton, M J, Bissell, M J, and Klein, M P. 1984. "Plasma membrane reorganization induced by tumor promoters in an epithelial cell line". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.81.2.449.
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title = {Plasma membrane reorganization induced by tumor promoters in an epithelial cell line},
author = {Packard, B S and Saxton, M J and Bissell, M J and Klein, M P},
abstractNote = {The effects of phorbol ester tumor promoters on the lateral diffusion in plasma membrane lipid environments were examined by the technique of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. To this end, the probe collarein, a fluorescent lipid analog that has the property of exclusive localization in the plasma membrane, was synthesized. Measured decreases in three parameters (percentage of fluorescence bleached (30%), percentage of recovery (52%), and half-time for recovery (52%)) connoted the appearance of an immobile fraction upon exposure to tumor promoters. These data are consistent with lipid reorganization in response to a reorganization of the intra- and perimembranous macromolecular scaffolding upon the interaction of cells with tumor promoters. The idea of induced reorganization is supported by experiments in which cell shape change, brought about by either exposure to cytochalasin B or growth on matrices of collagen, fibronectin, or laminin, resulted in values in the fluorescence recovery after photobleaching technique similar to those with active phorbol esters. 35 references, 3 figures, 1 table.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.81.2.449},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6098806}, journal = {Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 81:1,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984},
month = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984}
}