title: [The normalization of tumor cell morphology related to an increase in their size: research on giant cells produced by mitomycin C treatment].
abstract: This study shows that artificial increase in cell site leads to morphological normalization of transformed fibroblasts. Mouse L cells (clone 171/5) were used. As most transformed cells, they were poorly spread on the substratum, made only dot-like focal contacts with it, rounded quickly at room temperature and did not contain prominent actin cables. Giant cells were obtained by incubation of these cells in the medium supplemented with mitomycin C (0.15-0.20 mcg/ml). DNA synthesis and mitosis were blocked by this treatment, while protein synthesis was changing very slightly. As a consequence, the cell size increased dramatically from 3 to 11 days of the cell incubation in the mitomycin containing medium. The degree of cell spreading per mcg of protein increased significantly in the giant cells. These cells do not round after moderate cooling, and well developed system of actin cables and matured streak-like focal contacts associated with these cables are formed in them. These results, along with our previous data on the restoration of cell spreading and cytoskeleton structure in giant multinucleated cells, provide strong evidences that the increase in cell size per se can induce qualitative changes in cell morphology. It can be suggested that there are some scaling-dependent factors regulating the processes of cytoskeleton assembly and formation of cell-substrate contacts.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Bershadskiĭ
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Stavrovskaia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000187:drug effects; D003703:Demecolcine / Q000494:pharmacology; D007739:L Cells; D051379:Mice; D016685:Mitomycin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D016685:Mitomycin; D003703:Demecolcine
vernacular_title: Normalizatsiia morfologii opukholevykh kletok, sviazannaia s uvelicheniem ikh razmerov: issledovanie gigantskikh kletok, poluchennykh obrabotkoĭ mitomitsinom C.