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Platelet-derived growth factor regulates actin isoform expression and growth state in cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells.

Abstract：

:The role of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) in the control of smooth muscle cell (SMC) differentiation was explored in vitro by examining its effects on expression of the smooth muscle (SM) specific contractile protein SM alpha actin in cultured rat aortic SMC. Quiescent, postconfluent SMC express maximal levels of alpha actin and responded to human platelet-derived growth factor (partially purified from platelets) by entering the cell cycle and undergoing approximately one synchronous round of DNA synthesis. Concomitantly, these cultures exhibited a marked reduction in alpha actin synthesis. Chronic treatment with PDGF (72 hours at 8 or 12 hour intervals) was associated with a transient increase in thymidine labeling index and a decrease in alpha actin expression. Interestingly, between 48 and 72 hours following initial treatment, thymidine labeling indices returned to near control levels while SM alpha actin expression remained depressed. This effect was reversible; fractional alpha actin synthesis increased immediately after PDGF removal. When subsequently stimulated with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), cells chronically pretreated with PDGF entered S phase approximately 4 hours earlier than cells pretreated with PDGF vehicle, consistent with the idea that the maintained suppression of alpha actin synthesis in SMC subjected to chronic PDGF treatment was associated with partial cell cycle transit. Chronic treatment with highly purified recombinant PDGF-BB elicited similar effects on alpha actin synthesis and partial cell cycle transit. Flow cytometric analysis of chronic PDGF-treated SMC demonstrated a 25% increase in forward angle light scatter, an index of cell size. These data implicate a possible role for PDGF in regulation of SMC differentiation and suggest a potentially important role for this mitogen in the phenotypic modulation accompanying SMC growth and in mediation of the cellular hypertrophy associated with cell cycle progression.

journal_name

J Cell Physiol

journal_title

Journal of cellular physiology

authors

Blank RS,Owens GK

doi

10.1002/jcp.1041420325

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-03-01 00:00:00

pages

635-42

issue

eissn

0021-9541

issn

1097-4652

journal_volume

142

pub_type

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Platelet-derived growth factor regulates actin isoform expression and growth state in cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells.