title: [A rapid decrease in the phosphatidylinositol cycle during neuroblastoma cell differentiation induced by retinoic acid].
abstract: Inositol phospholipid turnover is part of a signal transduction mechanism which mobilize intracellular calcium and activate a calcium- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase, protein kinase C. Phosphatidylinositol turnover has recently been implicated in the regulation of cell proliferation and transformation. Its role in differentiation has now been investigated using LAN-1 cells, a human neuroblastoma cell line which can be induced to differentiate along the neuronal pathway by RA. Treatment of LAN-1 cells with RA was followed by a rapid decrease of inositol phospholipid metabolism, as determined by isotopic methodology employing myo-[1,2-3H] inositol or [1(3)-3H] glycerol. Analysis of labelled phosphatidylinositol metabolites from prelabelled cells indicated a rapid decrease of inositol (1,4,5)trisphosphate and (1,2)diacylglycerol within 1 min. of induction of LAN-1 cell differentiation. These findings suggest that inositol phospholipid-derived metabolites (i.e. diacylglycerol and inositol trisphosphate) may be part of the mechanism by which certain RA signals are transduced, playing a key role in control of neuroblastoma cell differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Oncologia Pediatrica, Istituto G. Gaslini-Genova.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lanciotti
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ponzoni
mesh_terms: D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D004075:Diglycerides / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D013997:Time Factors; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D004075:Diglycerides; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D014212:Tretinoin
vernacular_title: Rapido decremento del ciclo del fosfatidilinositolo durante la differenziazione di cellule di neuroblastoma indotta da acido retinoico.