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The role of lactic acid in autocrine B-cell growth stimulation.

Growth and survival of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-immortalized B lymphocytes cultured at low cell densities require autocrine soluble factors. In this study, we have purified a low molecular weight autocrine soluble factor that promotes growth of EBV-immortalized B cells in serum-free conditions and identified it as lactic acid (LA). Synthetic LA stimulated growth in EBV-immortalized B cells at 1-10 mM, a concentration of LA measured in the culture supernatant of EBV-immortalized cell lines. LA alone was found to account for greater than 70% of the autocrine growth factor activity in serum-free supernatants of EBV-immortalized B cells. Aminooxyacetate, a glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase inhibitor, specifically inhibited B-cell growth induced by LA, suggesting that this process requires mitochondrial-cytosol transfers. Thus, LA is an autocrine stimulatory molecule that in serum-free conditions is essential for the continuous proliferation of EBV-immortalized B cells. This represents an unexpected function for LA.[1]

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  1. The role of lactic acid in autocrine B-cell growth stimulation. Pike, S.E., Markey, S.P., Ijames, C., Jones, K.D., Tosato, G. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1991) [Pubmed]
 
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