Asparagine-Requiring Tumor Cell Lines and Their Non-Requiring Variants: Cytogenetics, Biochemistry and Population Dynamics
AUTOR(ES)
Colofiore, Joseph
RESUMO
Asparagine-requiring Jensen and Walker rat tumor cells and their asparagine-independent variants have been analyzed. The following results were obtained: (1) Both cell lines have very low levels of asparagine synthetase, and non-requiring revertants isolated from these lines have elevated levels of the enzyme. (2) No differences in chromosome number were detected between the parent Jensen line and five Jensen non-requiring revertants isolated from it. (3) Both Jensen and Walker cells undergo asparagineless death when deprived of this amino acid, although the Jensen cells do so at a more rapid rate. (4) Jensen requiring lines are at a selective advantage when grown in competition with non-requiring variants in complete medium, and their growth rate is more rapid when grown separately. The selective coefficients for the variant with respect to the asparagine-requiring parent ASN- line were 0.94 for the competition experiments and 0.83 for growth rate estimates. (5) A somatic cell hybrid between Chinese hamster cells (which require asparagine at low densities, and posses measurable synthetase activity) and the Walker line was found to be asparagine-independent, and it possessed enzyme levels equivalent to the hamster parent. The results of these investigations suggest a parallel with microbial auxotrophic mutants and can be understood in terms of alterations within nuclear structural genes.
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