title: Biochemical evidence for cellular dedifferentiation in adult rat cardiac muscle cells in culture: expression of myosin isozymes.
abstract: Myosin isozyme pattern in adult rat cardiac ventricular muscle cells in long-term culture was investigated. The myosin isozymes profile of cultured cardiac myocytes underwent a change in a serum-containing medium from two weeks onward, showing an embryonic rat ventricular myosin isozymes pattern that contained predominant isozyme V3. When adult cardiac myocytes were grown in a serum-containing medium supplemented with T4, these cells contained a predominant V1 band whose electrophoretic mobility and Ca2+-ATPase activity were comparable to those of the adult rat ventricle in vivo. This study has demonstrated that the adult cardiac ventricular muscle cells in long-term culture contain a predominant myosin isozyme V3 unlike their counterparts in vivo. Supplemented T4 modulated the embryonic type isozyme V3 to the adult type V1.
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004586:Electrophoresis; D005260:Female; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology* / Q000201:enzymology; D009218:Myosins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D009218:Myosins; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D013974:Thyroxine