Cyclic nucleotides and cell growth
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Supramolecular Structure
- Vol. 4 (2), 279-287
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jss.400040214
Abstract
Growth induction in resting fibroblast cultures by serum or growth factors induces a fast, transient cGMP peak which may constitute the intracellular signal for growth. A similar cGMP peak occurs when 3T3 cells arrested at the restriction point or in G0 by starvation for certain amino acids are induced for growth by readdition of the lacking nutrients. Both 3T3 and SV3T3 cells which are arrested randomly all around the cell cycle do not exhibit major changes in cyclic nucleotides after growth induction. Determination of intracellular cAMP and cGMP levels in normal and transformed fibroblasts under different growth conditions shows that the transition between growing and resting state (G0 arrest) is accompanied and probably induced by characteristic changes in cAMP to cGMP ratios. cGMP is decreased 2‐5‐fold in resting as compared to growing cultures, and increased 10‐20‐fold in activated cultures 20 min after serum induction. No major cGMP change was observed in growing, confluent, or serum‐activated cultures of transformed cells. Measurement of guanylcyclase under unphysiological conditions (2 mM Mn++) in crude and purified membranes from 3T3 and SV3T3 cultures did not show increased enzyme activity in the transformed cells. Significant differences may only show up when synchronized cells pass through the restriction point in G1 phase. As a hypothesis it is proposed that transformed cells have an activated guanylcyclase system or a relaxed cGMP‐pleiotypic response mechanism at the restriction point of their cell cycle.Keywords
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