Ouabain-Resistant Cells Cultured in a Synthetic Medium
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 97 (4) , 1079-1084
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a135151
Abstract
Several strains of kidney and liver cells cultured in a synthetic medium were found to be resistant to ouabain. These cell strains were characterized because this resistance may serve as a good marker in genetic studies on somatic cells in chemically defined conditions in the absence of Na+ related growth factors and hormones. The phenotype was stable in the absence of selection for at least two years, and the original strains before adaptation to the synthetic medium were found to have ouabain sensitivity equal to the corresponding cells in the synthetic medium. The resting membrane potential, Na+, K+-ATPase activity, and growth rate of the resistant cells were similar to those of ouabain-sensitive cells. The resistance of the cells was not affected by serum or antibodies against some cytoskeletal proteins and the sensitivity of the Na+, K+-ATPase was not restored by partial purification of the membranes. Western blotting of the Na+, K+-ATPase of the ouabain-resistant cells showed that the molecular weights of its two subunits and its immunoreactivity were similar to those of the enzyme from the ouabain-sensitive strain. Thus the ouabain resistance is caused not by ouabain-like hormone produced by the cells or change in the cytoskeletal system, but by a mutation resulting in expression of an ouabain-resistant ATPase gene.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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