Metallothionein RNA levels in HL‐60 cells Effect of cadmium, differentiation, and protein kinase C activation
- 5 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 241 (1-2) , 159-163
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(88)81051-2
Abstract
Metallothionein (MT) gene transcription is regulated in a developmental and tissue-specific manner by metal ions and other agents. We examined MT expression in the human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 during differentiation along macrophage and neutrophil lineages. All HL-60 phenotypes showed similar basal levels of MT RNA with significant induction following exposure to Cd2+ but not activators of PKC. MT RNA did not correlate with growth state or with known levels of PKC activity, thus our data do not support a role for MT in HL-60 differentiation or for PKC in MT expression.Keywords
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