Müller cell phenotype exhibited by senescent RSV-transformed chicken neuroretinal cells.
Müller cell phenotype exhibited by senescent RSV-transformed chicken neuroretinal cells.
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衰老 RSV 转化鸡神经视网膜细胞表现出的 Müller 细胞表型。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02634542
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发表时间:
1993
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Notter,MF
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作者:
Seigel,GM;Hansen,JT;Imperato,EL;Notter,MF
Dear Editor: Success in obtaining permanently established Rous sarcoma virus (RSV)-infected chicken cell lines for long-term studies has often been hindered by a phenomenon of spontaneous degeneration and death after extended periods in culture (10). Neuroretinal cell cultures derived from Day 7 embryonic chicken contain a mixture of both neuronal cells and glial (Miiller) cells of the retina which have the capacity to differentiate in vitro, but cease to proliferate after a limited number of cell divisions (2). Although further proliferation in vitro can be stimulated by infection with RSV (8), this effect is usually temporary (10). During our attempts to establish a continuous cell line of RSV-infected chick neuroretinal ceils (13), our group documented the loss of mitotic activity and transformed pbenotype in the chick neuroretinal cell culture LA29NR over a period of four months, which included the appearance of unusual morphologies immediately prior to cell death at Passage 15. We now report on the characterization of these unusual senescent cells. LA29NR cells maintained at Passage 15 for two weeks (p15+) appeared as large flat cells, some of which (approximately 30%) sent out processes (Fig. 1 B). This extent of process outgrowth and cell size was not typical of early passage LA29NR (Fig. 1 A). Also, despite the senescent nature of p15+ LA29NR, there was a continued presence of retroviral particles (Fig. 2 A). This was consistent with our previous results (13) which demonstrated that late passage LA29NR expressed the retroviral protein pp60 TM, and continued to exhibit tyrosine phosphorylation of several potential substrates of pp60 TM.Ultrastrueturally, p15+ LA29NR cells displayed features consistent with a Miiller cell phenotype (2, 19). Longitudinally-packed intermediate filaments of approximately 5 to 10 nm in diameter were visible throughout much of the cell, and were especially prominent within processes (Fig. 2 B). One distinguishing feature of chicken Miiller cells is the presence of myehn figures, which we observed in LA29NR (Fig. 2 63, and are described in association with normal chicken Miiller cells in vivo (11). In this respect, LA29NR Mfiller cells appeared to resemble in vivo chicken Miiller