title: Effect of polylysine-bound laminin on human retinoblastoma cell lines.
abstract: We have studied the responses of three human retinoblastoma cell lines (GM1232, Y79, and WERI-Rb1) to substratum-bound laminin (LN), fibronectin (FN), or collagen (CN) in serum-containing medium. About 95% of the cells attached to poly-D-lysine (PN)-pretreated plastic surfaces either unbound or protein-bound within 1 h after plating. With PN-bound LN, GM1232 cells showed an outgrowth of processes and cell spread within 1 d, but very little was seen on PN-bound FN, CN, or unbound PN even by Day 4. Both the percentage of cells with processes and the number of processes/cell were dependent on the amount of LN bound to the surfaces at Day 4. On LN surfaces without PN pretreatment, by Day 2 most cells had formed floating aggregates and were not attached to the surfaces. By Day 4 only a part of the peripheral cells of attached aggregates displayed process outgrowth and cell spreading. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) maintained these effects of PN-bound LN, and promoted process branching, cell spreading, and elongation with concomitant inhibition of cell growth. The percentage of cells with processes was 83%. Y79 and WERI-Rb1 cells, passed for several years, showed little and weak response to PN-bound LN either in the absence or presence of dbcAMP. These results indicate that the morphologic differentiation of GM1232 cells is elicited specifically by PN-bound LN, and that dbcAMP maintains and promotes this differentiated status.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Yamanashi Medical College, Japan.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wakabayashi
mesh_terms: D003994:Bucladesine / Q000494:pharmacology; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002460:Cell Line; D003094:Collagen / Q000494:pharmacology; D005353:Fibronectins / Q000494:pharmacology; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D007797:Laminin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011107:Polylysine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012160:Retina / Q000166:cytology; D012175:Retinoblastoma / Q000473:pathology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D005353:Fibronectins; D006023:Glycoproteins; D007797:Laminin; D011107:Polylysine; D003994:Bucladesine; D003094:Collagen