title: Motility of murine lymphocytes during transit through cell cycle. Analysis by a new in vitro assay.
abstract: The relationship between the basal (spontaneous) motility of murine lymphocytes and their position in the cell cycle was examined in a new collagen gel motility assay system. Concanavalin A-stimulated or control lymphocytes were allowed to locomote into slabs of type I collagen gel. The assay configuration permitted extraction of both total populations and locomotory subpopulations as viable, single-cell suspensions suitable for phenotypic and cell analysis. Concanavalin A stimulation resulted in a significant increase in the mean distance traveled by the leading cell front in 4 hr, from 23 microns (controls) to 67 microns. The estimated percentage of motile cells increased from 0.9 to 2.8%. Similar increases were observed after 18 hr of locomotion. The SIg+, Thy-1+, L3T4+, and Ly-2+ subsets exhibited equivalent increases in motility. Total populations and locomotory subpopulations were allowed to incorporate 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine, and their cell cycle profiles were compared by dual parameter anti-5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine, propidium iodide fluorescence analysis. Total population and locomotory subpopulations did not differ significantly with respect to the ratio G0/G1:S, indicating that lymphocytes in these two phases exhibited approximately equal motility. Cells in late S and G2 + M were significantly less motile; locomotory subpopulations contained 60 to 75% fewer G2 + M cells than the total populations from which they were derived. Taken together, the results indicate that the concanavalin A-induced increase in motility commences before S phase and that motility diminishes shortly before or during G2 + M.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit 48201.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ratner
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Jasti
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Heppner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003094:Collagen; D003208:Concanavalin A / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D005782:Gels; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000145:classification / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C
chemical_list: D005782:Gels; D003208:Concanavalin A; D003094:Collagen