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In vitro differentiation of teratomas and the distribution of creatine phosphokinase and plasminogen activator in teratocarcinoma-derived cells.

Abstract：

:Mouse teratocarcinoma cells from embryoid bodies were cultured in vitro to permit their differentiation into a number of cell types. Two enzyme activities, creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and the protease plasminogen activator, were studied to follow the developmental sequence of events in these embryoid body-derived cell cultures. CPK activity increased with time in culture, indicating the appearance of new cell types with brain- or muscle-specific enzyme activities. Plasminogen activator was detectable in extracts of embryoid bodies. This protease activity first increased and then decreased to a low level as the embryoid bodies in culture developed into differentiated cell types. These cell cultures also showed a decreased potential for tumor formation in syngeneic mice as a function of time in culture. This decrease in tumorigenic potential was correlated with the appearance of differentiated cells in vitro. Simian virus 40 (SV40) was used to infect and transform cells derived from embryoid bodies in culture. This was done to permit the establishment of cloned teratocarcinoma-derived cell lines. Twenty-nine distinct cloned permanent cell lines (called SVTER) containing the SV40-specific tumor antigen were obtained. None of these cell lines was capable of producing tumors in syngeneic mice. An analysis of the levels of creatine phosphokinase and plasminogen activator in these SVTER cell lines indicated that : (a) some cell lines had high CPK activity and little or no plasminogen activator activity, (b) some cell lines contained high levels of plasminogen activator activity with little or no CPK activity, and (c) some cell lines contained neither of these enzyme activities. No example of a cell line with high levels of both enzyme activities was observed, indicating that these two enzymes may participate in mutually exclusive developmental pathways. The SVTER cell lines may therefore be useful in reconstructing these developmental pathways in vitro.

journal_name

Cancer Res

journal_title

Cancer research

authors

Topp W,Hall JD,Marsden M,Teresky AK,Rifkin D,Levine AJ,Pollack R

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1976-11-01 00:00:00

pages

4217-23

issue

11 Pt. 2

eissn

0008-5472

issn

1538-7445

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In vitro differentiation of teratomas and the distribution of creatine phosphokinase and plasminogen activator in teratocarcinoma-derived cells.