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Prados, J. et al.

Actin, tropomyosin and alpha-actinin as markers of differentiation in human rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines induced with dimethyl sulfoxide.

Most rhabdomyosarcomas are poorly differentiated malignant tumors. Dimethyl sulfoxide has been shown to modulate cell differentiation in cultured human cells. We induced differentiation in human rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines A-673, RD and A-204 with 1.25% dimethyl sulfoxide, and used desmin, the protein most frequently used as a marker of muscle cell differentiation, to trace this process. As alternative markers of the degree of differentiation, we quantified the expression of the proteins actin, tropomyosin and alpha-actinin in these cell lines, and followed the changes in expression of these proteins after induction for 8, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hrs. In the process of differentiation, protein expression in both the cytoplasm and cytoskeleton was significantly increased by treatments lasting 12 hrs. (alpha-actinin) and 24 hrs. (actin). On the basis of our results, alpha-actinin can be considered as an earlier marker of differentiation than actin in human rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines. However, the earliest indication of differentiation was a modification in desmin expression (8 hrs.). Because changes in tropomyosin expression were less marked, we consider this protein as a poor marker of rhabdomyosarcoma cell differentiation.[1]

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Actin, tropomyosin and alpha-actinin as markers of differentiation in human rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines induced with dimethyl sulfoxide. Prados, J., Melguizo, C., Fernandez, J.E., Aranega, A.E., Alvarez, L., Aranega, A. Cell. Mol. Biol. (Noisy-le-grand) (1993) [Pubmed]

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