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Origin of tumor-promoter released fibronectin in fibroblasts

Conference · · Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6933210
Previous work from the laboratory showed that the chemical tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) stimulated release of the cell surface glycoprotein, fibronectin (FN) from human lung fibroblasts (HLF), leading to depletion of cell surface FN, while FN synthesis is not altered by TPA. To further investigate the mechanism(s) by which TPA stimulates FN release, two types of experiments were performed. In the first, HLF were pulsed with /sup 35/S-methionine-labeled medium with or without TPA. In the second, cell-surface proteins were labeled by iodination (/sup 125/I) and then incubated in unlabeled medium with or without TPA. In both cases, the fate of labeled FN was followed over 12 hr. The /sup 35/S-meth-labeled HLF showed a rapid loss of labeled FN, first into a small, highly-labeled pool of cell surface FN (1 hr), later into the medium (4 hr or longer). Specific activities showed that this small pool in the cell surface turned over rapidly. TPA treatment resulted in more rapid movement of /sup 35/S-meth pulse-labeled FN to the cell surface and into the medium than in control cells. TPA thus affected the fate of intracellular FN. TPA treatment of HLF also resulted in more rapid removal of /sup 125/I-cell surface-labeled FN into the medium than in control cells. Thus, TPA affects the fate of preexisting cell surface FN in HLF. From these results, they hypothesize that TPA has two separate effects: it stimulates depletion of preexisting intracellular FN during the first hr of treatment, and it stimulates release of preexisting cell surface FN over all treatment times.
Research Organization:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
OSTI ID:
6933210
Report Number(s):
CONF-8606151-
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States) Journal Volume: 45:6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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