Secretion of Mr 46,000 protein from human hepatoma cells treated with tumor promotors is regulated by c-myc gene expression.
Previously an Mr 46,000 protein (named p46) was shown to be induced in the culture medium of human hepatoblastoma cells, Huh-6 Cl-5, treated with 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA). For further characterization of p46, Huh-7 Cl-4, another line of well differentiated liver cells, was incubated in the presence and absence of TPA, and proteins were labeled with [35S]methionine, and the proteins secreted into the medium were analyzed by one- and two-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A protein of Mr 46,000 was observed in the culture medium of Huh-7 Cl-4 cells treated by TPA or plated at low density, but only slightly in the culture medium of Huh-7 Cl-4 cells plated at high density. As these results suggested that the expression of p46 was regulated by a factor that was activated in the growth state and by TPA treatment, the effect of introduction of the competence gene c-myc into Huh-7 Cl-4 cells was examined. All 37 independent transfected colonies obtained showed enhanced expression of p46. As a control, the c-Ha-ras gene was introduced into Huh-7 Cl-4 cells and shown not to enhance expression of p46. These results strongly suggested that the expression of p46 was regulated by the competence gene c-myc.[1]References
- Secretion of Mr 46,000 protein from human hepatoma cells treated with tumor promotors is regulated by c-myc gene expression. Miwatani, H., Yoneda, Y., Maki, H., Kaneda, Y., Uchida, T. Cell Struct. Funct. (1989) [Pubmed]
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