Unlinked regulation of cell growth and differentiation in immature B cell lines.
We established many immunoglobulin-null immature B cell lines transformed by tsOS-59, a temperature-sensitive mutant of Abelson murine leukemia virus. In different cell lines cell growth was depressed and cell differentiation (generation of intracytoplasmic mu-positive cells from Ig- cells) was induced by the shift of culture temperature from low (35 degrees C) to high (39 degrees C). Cell lines were categorized into four groups: (i) temperature sensitive (ts) to both cell growth and differentiation, (ii) ts to cell growth but not to cell differentiation, (iii) ts to cell differentiation but not to cell growth, and (iv) ts to neither cell growth nor differentiation. These results indicated that the depression of cell growth did not necessarily induce cell differentiation, and that cell differentiation was induced regardless of whether cell growth was depressed or not. Furthermore, the results showed that the depression of cell growth and the induction of cell differentiation occurred without the reduction of tyrosine kinase activity of P120gag-abl at high, nonpermissive temperature. Our cell growth and differentiation system described here should provide us with the interesting findings of the relation between B cell growth and differentiation.
Oka
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Third Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
Sugiyama
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Tsukada
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Inoue
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Hakura
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Kishimoto
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D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D002460:Cell Line; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D015683:Gene Products, gag / Q000378:metabolism; D015326:Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain; D005803:Genes, Immunoglobulin; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains / Q000235:genetics; D007148:Immunoglobulin mu-Chains / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008099:Liver / Q000196:embryology; D051379:Mice; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D016315:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-abl; D013696:Temperature
D015683:Gene Products, gag; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains; D007148:Immunoglobulin mu-Chains; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D016315:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-abl