Establishment of gingival epithelial cell lines from transgenic mice harboring temperature sensitive simian virus 40 large T-antigen gene.
We established two gingival epithelial cell lines (GE1 and GE6), originating from transgenic mice harboring the temperature-sensitive simian virus 40 large T-antigen gene. GE1 and GE6 grew at a permissive temperature (33 degrees C) in a pavement arrangement and solely formed multilayers that exhibited morphological features similar to those of the stratified oral epithelium, with neither the use of stromal equivalents nor feeder layers. Both GE cells underwent apoptosis at a non-permissive temperature (39 degrees C). Characteristic keratin peptides, keratin 4 and 13, for mucosal epithelium were obviously expressed in the suprabasal cells, and keratohyalin granules and involucrin were present in the surface flat cells in the multilayered culture. Keratin 10 (one of the markers for higher keratinized gingival epithelium) was rarely found in some uppermost cells, and filaggrin (a component of keratohyalin granules) appeared sparsely in uppermost desquamating cells in the older cultures. These observations indicated that GE1 and GE6 cells exhibited the phenotype characterizing nonkeratinized sulcular epithelium, which possessed the potency undergoing keratinization in such highly stratified cultures as oral gingival epithelium. GE cells increased the expression levels of mRNA of interleukin-1beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha by the stimulation of lipopolysaccharide and extracellular substances of oral streptococci. The GE cell lines thus could serve as an excellent experimental system for further studies on the physiology of gingival epithelium and corresponding diseases, such as periodontal disease, epithelial hyperplasia, and gingival tumors.[1]References
- Establishment of gingival epithelial cell lines from transgenic mice harboring temperature sensitive simian virus 40 large T-antigen gene. Hatakeyama, S., Ohara-Nemoto, Y., Yanai, N., Obinata, M., Hayashi, S., Satoh, M. J. Oral Pathol. Med. (2001) [Pubmed]
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