Regulated expression of a transfected human cardiac actin gene during differentiation of multipotential murine embryonal carcinoma cells.

AUTOR(ES)

Rudnicki, M A

RESUMO

P19 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells are multipotential stem cells which can be induced to differentiate in vitro into a variety of cell types, including cardiac muscle cells. A cloned human cardiac actin (CH-actin) gene was transfected into P19 cells, and stable transformants were isolated. Low levels of CH-actin mRNA were present in transformed EC cells, but a marked increase in the level of CH-actin mRNA was found as these cells differentiated into cardiac muscle. The accumulation of CH-actin mRNA paralleled that of the endogenous mouse cardiac actin mRNA. A chimeric gene, which consisted of the CH-actin promoter linked to the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase coding region, was constructed and transfected into P19 cells. In these transformants, the thymidine kinase protein was located almost exclusively in cardiac muscle cells and was generally not detectable in EC or other nonmuscle cells. These results suggest that the transfected CH-actin promoter functions in the appropriate developmental and tissue-specific manner during the differentiation of multipotential EC cells in culture.

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