title: [The influence of Mycoplasma salivarium in the absence and presence of L-arginine on karyotypic variability in cell line of the Indian muntjak skin fibroblasts under long-term cultivation].
abstract: The influence of Mycoplasma salivarium on the numerical and structural karyotypic variability has been investigated in the "markerless" cell line of the Indian muntjak skin fibroblasts (line M) during long-term cultivation in the absence and presence of L-arginine. Cultivation of the mycoplasmal contaminated cells for 15 and 30 days did not change the character of cell distribution for the chromosome number. In the contaminated cells cultivated for 60 and 75 days, the character of cell distribution for the chromosome number was changed. These changes involved bimodal distribution for the chromosome number due to a significant decrease in the frequency of the cells with the modal number of chromosomes with main structural variant of karyotype (SVK)--2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 and an increase in the frequency of cells with submodal number of chromosomes with main SVK--2 + 2 + 1 + 1. Besides, a significant increase in the frequency of the cells with lower chromosome number was observed in 60 days compared to that in 75 days of cultivation. Cultivation of the contaminated and control cells in the medium with increased concentration of L-arginine during 60 days did not change the numerical parameters relative to the control. Cultivation of the contaminated cells for 60 days followed by addition of L-arginine for 15 days restored the numerical parameters the numerical parameters to the control level. In the contaminated cells the frequency of chromosomal aberrations significantly increased for 30, 60 and 75 days cultivation relative to the control variant. In 30 days, the small but significant increase took place due to increase in the frequency of chromosomal aberrations of all the types. In 60 and 75 days, a greater increase took place due to a significant increase in the frequency of chromosomal and chromatid breaks. Moreover, in 60 days, the level of dicentrics (telomeric associations) mainly produced by chromosomes 1 and 2 increased significantly. The role of dicentrics as one of the ways for adaptation of the "markerless" cell lines to condition of cultivation and the role of L-arginine in the restoration of normal karyotypic structure of cell population of line M under mycoplasmal contamination are discussed.
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Polianskaia
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Efremova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002460:Cell Line; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000187:drug effects*; D033481:Chromosomes, Mammalian / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology; D018668:Muntjacs; D045804:Mycoplasma salivarium / Q000254:growth & development*; D012867:Skin / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D001120:Arginine