title: Altered expression of heat shock proteins in embryonal carcinoma and mouse early embryonic cells.
abstract: In a previous paper, we have shown that in the absence of stress, mouse embryonal carcinoma cells, like mouse early embryo multipotent cells, synthesize high levels of 89- and 70-kilodalton heat shock proteins (HSP)(O. Bensaude and M. Morange, EMBO J. 2:173-177, 1983). We report here the pattern of proteins synthesized after a short period of hyperthermia in various mouse embryonal carcinoma cell lines and early mouse embryo cells. Among the various cell lines tested, two of them, PCC4-Aza R1 and PCC7-S-1009, showed an unusual response in that stimulation of HSP synthesis was not observed in these cells after hyperthermia. However, inducibility of 68- and 105-kilodalton HSP can be restored in PCC7-S-1009 cells after in vitro differentiation triggered by retinoic acid. Similarly, in the early mouse embryo, hyperthermia does not induce the synthesis of nonconstitutive HSP at the eight-cell stage, but induction of the 68-kilodalton HSP does occur at the blastocyst stage. Such a transition in the expression of HSP has already been described for Drosophila melanogaster and sea urchin embryos and recently for mouse embryos. It may be a general property of early embryonic cells.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001755:Blastocyst / Q000502:physiology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D047108:Embryonic Development; D005260:Female; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D011247:Pregnancy; D013724:Teratoma / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins