CHARACTERISTICS OF A CALCITONIN-RESPONSIVE CELL-LINE DERIVED FROM A HUMAN OSTEO-SARCOMA
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 43 (8), 3763-3769
Abstract
Although the primary cell type in human osteosarcoma is usually a neoplastic osteoblast, numerous other mesenchymal cell types may coexist in the same tumor. Previously described cloned, long-term osteosarcoma cell lines have had an osteoblastic phenotype. A nonosteoblastic, long-term cell line derived from an osteosarcoma in a patient with Paget''s disease is described. The cell line (FM-2) is nontransformed in having a low saturation density and anchorage-dependent growth, and it is nontumorigenic in nude mice. Important features of its fine structure include numerous elongated mitochondria, abundant Golgi and lysosomes, and a poorly developed rough endoplasmic reticulum. The line has high levels of lysosomal enzymes (acid phosphatase and N-acetylglucosaminidase) and low levels of alkaline phosphatase. It lacks numerous macrophage markers (lysozyme, C3, Fc receptors, and M1 antigen). The FM-2 line had a dose-dependent cAMP response (7-fold increase) following treatment with calcitonin but not with parathormone. In 125I-calcitonin-binding experiments, .apprx. 5.3 .+-. 0.2 .times. 103 receptor sites/cell with a Kd of 1.8 .+-. 0.1 .times. 10-9 M were calculated. Conditioned medium from the FM-2 line was a potent stimulator of Ca release as assayed in a 45Ca-labeled fetal rat bone organ culture. This activity was not prostaglandin, vitamin D, parathormone or epidermal growth factor, which are known stimulators of bone resorption. The FM-2 line does not appear to be derived from an osteoblast, macrophage or fibroblast and may represent a calcitonin-responsive bone stem cell.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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