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:Although significant progress has recently been made in culturing mammalian urothelial cells, relatively little is known about their biochemical differentiation. In this paper, we assessed the differentiation state of cultured bovine urothelial cells by analyzing their keratins and a cell surface marker, uroplakin I. Urothelial cells were serially cultured either in a serum-free medium, or in a serum-containing medium in the presence of 3T3 feeder cells, with similar results. Despite their stratified appearance, both normal urothelium and cultured urothelial cells synthesize mainly K8, K18 and K19, keratins that are typically seen in simple epithelia. However, cultured urothelial cells synthesize a greatly increased amount of K5 and K6 keratins, which are usually expressed by stratified epithelia but present only in trace amounts in normal urothelium. These data indicate that, as far as keratin synthesis is concerned, cultured urothelial cells undergo an altered pattern of differentiation towards a more 'stratified phenotype'; this unusual finding has interesting implications for urothelial evolution. In the meantime, many superficial cells in cultured urothelial colonies make uroplakin I, a 27 x 10(3) Mr protein subunit of the asymmetrical unit membrane (AUM) characteristic of urothelial (superficial) umbrella cells. These results indicate that cultured urothelial cells undergo, at least in part, AUM biogenesis. Cultured urothelial cells thus provide a useful experimental model system for studying certain early steps of AUM formation.
journal_name
J Cell Scijournal_title
Journal of cell scienceauthors
Surya B,Yu J,Manabe M,Sun TTsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-11-01 00:00:00pages
419-32eissn
0021-9533issn
1477-9137journal_volume
97 ( Pt 3)pub_type
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